Future Ecologies

FE6.8 - For Peat's Sake

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bogs are our absolute favourite places to be. They’re not only tremendously important ecosystems, rich in exquisite biodiversity and massive stores ...

A podcast for False Creek

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mendel has another show to share with you: WaterbodiesIt's a video podcast dedicated to a particular body of water we have here in Vancouver, called F...

In conversation with Threshold and Drilled

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We had the opportunity to hang out with two of our favourite podcasters: Amy Martin of Threshold, and Amy Westervelt of Drilled.We've previously featu...

FE6.7 - Critical Mast

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you call it when a population of podcasts mysteriously drop episodes on the same topic at the same time? It's Critical Mast!We're so proud to ...

[HYPHAEDELITY] Sadie Couture x Hannah Tollefson — Tidewater and the Nature of Logistics

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've got another edition of our intermittent interview show for you, this one featuring Sadie Couture in conversation with Hannah Tollefson.You'll re...

Future Ecologies presents: Green Dreams (from Cited)

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got a great guest episode for you today, coming courtesy of our friends over at the podcast Cited.They’ve got a new series out called “Gre...

FE6.6 - Landings

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got something a little different for you: something a little less in the sciences, and a little more in the humanities — in the realm of lan...

Future Ecologies presents: Circle of Voices & Javan Hunt

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a double feature!With help from recordist/anthropologist/podcaster Louise Romain and musician/conservationist Javan Hunt, we're visiting the Cari...

[HYPHAEDELITY] Adam Davis x Tim Male — Non-partisan Environmental Policy

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello! As you know well, we're not the news. The news is generally bad, and we prefer to not be bad news. So, it's a funny thing for us to release an ...

FE6.5 - The Method

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry is a viral sensation: sprouting tiny, dense, native tree cover in neighbourhoods all around the world. With the ...

Announcing: Waterbodies

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mendel here with an exciting announcement:I'm producing a new video podcast for a local environmental advocacy organization: the False Creek Friends S...

[HYPHAEDELITY] Sarah Jim x Lucas Glenn — Ecologically-engaged art

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're excited to introduce our brand new spin-off format: Hyphaedelity (which will ironically be somewhat lower-fi than our usual output).Here’s the...

FE6.4 - Humane Being

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When is it ethical to kill one thing to save another? Lethal intervention is a common practice in the field of wildlife management, especially when th...

Future Ecologies presents: Nature's Genius

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, it's our pleasure to bring you an episode from our friends at Bioneers, who have just released a 6-part series called Nature's Genius.Follow Bi...

FE6.3 - Get Yer Ass Outta Here!

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this very special donkumentary, we’re headed to the Mojave Desert — to Death Valley, in particular — where we find one animal at the centre o...

[UNLOCKED] Skye Augustine // Diving deeper into Sea Gardens

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re unlocking one of the conversations from our bonus feed.In this interview, building on episode FE6.2, Mendel speaks with Skye Augustine, a lead...

Future Ecologies presents: Hark (from Threshold)

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're borrowing an episode from one of our all-time favourite shows: Threshold, a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the nat...

FE6.2 - SEA / GARDEN

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Food security, climate adaptation, and vibrant biodiversity all in one place — welcome to the ancient and diverse technologies of Sea Gardening.Thes...

FE6.1 - FOREST / TREE

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Season 6 kicks off in the deep dark woods: the simplified, post-industrial forests of the world — the only forests that many of us have ever kn...

Auditory Compost / Convergence: The Music of Season 5

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As is tradition, we're releasing all the original music we composed for the latest season of Future Ecologies as a set of soundtracks. For the first t...

Future Ecologies presents: The Merry Monarchs

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're excited to share another beautiful guest episode with you today.In this piece, originally broadcast in 2 parts on The Wind (one of our favourite...

Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 2 — Eulogies)

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.The second and final episode...

Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 1 — Climate Feelings)

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.This first episode, “Clima...

FE5.10 - Everything Will Be Vine

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vision without eyes? Intelligence without a brain? Are plants more akin to us than we have been prepared to acknowledge? Or are they different in ways...

FE5.9 - Home on the Rangelands: Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (Part 3)

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this conclusion to our trilogy, we're looking at a proposal to move beyond the concept of "rangelands" through the rewilding of the American west —...

FE5.8 - Home on the Rangelands: The Beef and the Butterflies (Part 2)

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our series on cows and rangelands continues in the weeds and in the thorns, looking at a specific piece of public land where livestock are being emplo...

FE5.7 - Home on the Rangelands: Welcome to Cowlifornia (Part 1)

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The introduction of cattle to western North America has undeniably contributed to massive ecosystem change. But could cows be as much a part of the so...

Welcome to Future Ecologies

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Future Ecologies is an independent podcast about the living world and its interrelations. The show varies in format, but this is a taste of what you c...

FE presents: Women's Work

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re slowing down for the holidays, and we hope you are too.But we didn’t want to leave you without something great to listen to, so we’re borr...

FE5.6 - Making a Living

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do we account for nature? We can build on it and we can take from it, but what is its intrinsic value — in and of itself?On this episode: Adam D...

FE5.5 - On Fire: Walking on Two Legs (Part 5)

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the Fire Watchers of Skeetchestn: the people keeping their community safe during nearby wildfires, and working to bring good fire back to the lan...

FE5.4 - On Fire: Under Water (Part 4)

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What happens after the smoke clears? What does recovery look like when the disasters never end?In this episode, we're visiting the sites of some of BC...

Future Ecologies presents: Inherited

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Inherited is a climate storytelling podcast by, for, and about young people. We're bringing you Season 3, Episode 1: "Mama's House", a personal story ...

Earthkin's Trial by Fire

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus conversation, Adam catches up with Fern Yip (guest producer on FE2.3) about her recent close call with wildfire, with lots of practical ...

FE5.3 - Cosmopoetics

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do our dreams shape our reality? Tonight, with the help of scientists, artists, philosophers, and historians, we're sprinkling a little stardust o...

[TEASER] Miriam Quick and Duncan Geere // Data Sonification

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Get to know our friends and collaborators, Miriam Quick and Duncan Geere — the hosts of Loud Numbers, a data sonification podcast.How do data visual...

FE5.2 - Spiders Song (Part 2)

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spiders Song is a story about a quest to hear the greatest symphony on Earth: the music of evolution. Along the way, we get to know some of nature’s...

FE5.1 - Spiders Song (Part 1)

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spiders Song is a story about a quest to hear the greatest symphony on Earth: the music of evolution. Along the way, we get to know some of nature’s...

Future Ecologies presents: Love and Radio

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From Love and Radio:Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist who explores the manipulation of DNA, the fringes of genetic modification, and butts up against the e...

Future Ecologies presents: Emergence Magazine

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the Earth Started to SingProduced by Emergence Magazine, this sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginn...

[TEASER] Jonathan Kawchuk // Paleo-Acoustics

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're trying out a new format of bonus content over on our Patreon feed: casual, conversational interviews that go behind the scenes of some of the co...

[UPDATE] FE4.2 - Terminal

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the heart of the Salish Sea lies the Fraser River Estuary: home to over half of the population of the Province of British Columbia, thousands of en...

[UPDATE] FE1.9 - Swimming Upstream

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dams remain one of the ultimate demonstrations of human power over nature. Wild rivers can be tamed to deliver energy for industry, lakes for recreati...

Future Ecologies presents: Drilled

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're sharing an episode from our friends over at Drilled. Four years ago, the Drilled podcast asked a question that changed how people thought about ...

Electrical Storms / Sympoiesis: The Music of Season 4

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We work hard to make sure our music doesn’t just complement our voices, but actually tells a story all of its own. Now that our 4th Season is comple...

FE4.10 - Geopoetics

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“We need geopoetics because geopolitics necessitate other ways of being… Proposing alternate narratives to the hegemonic ones we are caught in is ...

FE4.9 - Mountain Legacies

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From a distance, mountain landscapes may appear timeless and immutable. Take a closer look, however, and montane ecologies reveal themselves to be lab...

Future Ecologies presents: Life in the Soil

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Anja and Matthias go on an underground safari through the hidden jungle of the soil. We hear from Diana Wall about a tiny worm that i...

Future Ecologies presents: Hot Farm

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our latest episode — on soil carbon and regenerative agriculture — could never have fit everything that needs to be said on the topic. So, we're l...

FE4.8 - Ground Truthing

29 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can we sequester our carbon and eat it too?For the first time in 4 seasons, we're discussing natural climate solutions, and in particular, regenerativ...

We Walk the Earth: podcasting through connection with Mendel Skulski

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We Walk the Earth is a podcast that explores creativity, curiosity, and cultural evolution through personal conversations, and the occasional sonic jo...

FE4.7 - Phase Change

10 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A story of memory, ghosting, and fire: how we can change the place we call home, and how it too can change around us.Another version of this story, al...

FE4.6 - An Island Unto Itself

13 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to live on an island? Is it to be independent from, or inexorably dependent on the rest of the world? And when the ecosystem's physi...

Future Ecologies presents: The Wind

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listening to The Disintegration Loops during wildfire season — a review of William Basinski’s seminal album as a meditation on looping thoughts, p...

FE4.5 - Model Citizens: Bearly Legal (Part 2)

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The North American Model is just one story of how wildlife conservation can be practiced. In part 2 of this mini-series we tell another: of restorativ...

FE4.4 - Model Citizens: Fair Game (Part 1)

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

North America abounds in wildlife — but why?At the turn of the last century, many observers believed that species that we take for granted today wou...

FE4.3 - A Tiny Wilderness

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What can a brand new patch of nature tell us about Europe's ancient history?In this episode, we touch down in the Netherlands, where an unconventional...

FE4.2 - Terminal

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At the heart of the Salish Sea lies the Fraser River Estuary: home to over half of the population of the Province of British Columbia, thousands of en...

FE4.1 - FOREST / GARDEN

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are agriculture and biodiversity always at odds? In the late 1970s, a radical environmental movement rejected this dichotomy — rebuking conventional...

Future Ecologies presents: Race Against Climate Change

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're featuring another guest episode. This time, from Canada's National Observer: a new podcast called Race Against Climate ChangeEpisode 1 – How W...

Future Ecologies presents: MEDIA INDIGENA

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're featuring another podcast we think should be in your feed (if it isn't already): MEDIA INDIGENA.This episode, originally released on May 27 2021...

Future Ecologies presents: How to Save a Planet

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got an amazing 4th Season headed your way! While we’ve got our heads down for the rest of the year, we’re going to feature some episodes f...

Sojourning: the music of Future Ecologies Season 3

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A few quick announcements!Get in touch with us: https://www.futureecologies.net/#contact-sectionMeet the musicians we've featured: https://www.futuree...

FE3.10 - Goatwalker: An Open Wound (Part 4)

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is a border? Is it simply an edge: a sharp transition between one state and another? Or does it stretch beyond a single dimension, warping land a...

FE3.9 - Goatwalker: Saguaro Juniper (Part 3)

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Having finished his work in the Sanctuary Movement, Jim Corbett allowed his focus to broaden, bringing his system of ethics to the land itself. Jim ha...

FE3.8 - Goatwalker: Sanctuary (Part 2)

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1980s, the outbreak of civil war across Central America forced unprecedented numbers of refugees to seek asylum in the United States, put...

FE3.7 - Goatwalker: On Errantry (Part 1)

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Corbett was not your typical rancher. Over the course of decades roaming the borderlands of the desert southwest, he developed a practice tha...

FE3.6 - Making Sense of Each Other

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mushrooms that smell? Fungi can be pungent, provocative, and at times irresistible. While we might not always recognize it, we're in constant chemical...

FE3.5 - The Story of the Understory of the Understory

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries, Future Ecologies presents a choral, poetic collage featuring the voices of The Understory of the Under...

FE3.4 - Dama Drama

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Guest producers Sadie Couture and Russell Gendron explore the concept of invasive species through a look at a small island community, a species doing ...

FE3.3 - Nature, by Design? Freakological Fallacies (Part 3)

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a garbageosphere – an ecosystem of trash and detritus. But despite the extent of anthropogenic impacts, ...

FE3.2 - Nature, by Design? The Path to the Wilderness Lodge (Part 2)

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is the second in a 3-part series. Before listening to this one, you may want to catch up with FE3.1 - Nature, by Design? Part 1: Taking t...

[UNLOCKED] Seaweed Sojourning 1: Light and Colour

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For a new season of bonus Patreon mini-episodes, we’re going beyond kelp worlds to meet the rest of our seaweed sojourners.Today, we’re stepping i...

FE3.1 - Nature, by Design? Taking the Neo-Eoscenic Route (Part 1)

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is “Nature” a real thing, or is it just an idea? When we talk about restoring ecosystems, what are we restoring them to? Or more precisely, when?T...

Future Ecologies presents: Back to Earth - Queer Currents

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is queer ecology? How do queer theory and artistic practice inform environmental activism and climate justice? How can we think decolonisation an...

Future Ecologies presents: Life in the Plastisphere

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

While we work on Season 3, we're featuring an episode from one of our favourite podcasts: Plastisphere–––We want to know what you want to listen...

Scales of Change - Chapter 7: A Form of Life

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is our final chapter, and our last genus of Dragon: Immobilis – the dragons of Limited Behaviour. This genus contains only two species: Immobil...

Scales of Change - Chapter 6: Relatives of the Deep

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In our sixth genus, we dive deep into the Dragons of Sunk Cost – the investments that work against our climate interests.Some of these may simply be...

Scales of Change - Chapter 5: Force Majeure

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our fifth genus includes the Dragons of Perceived Risk: functional, temporal, financial, social, and physical. These dragons are at the root of all fe...

Scales of Change - Chapter 4: Driving Decisions

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Dragons of Discredence are agents of mistrust – the species of this genus are responsible for climate deniers, contrarians, and conspiracy theor...

Scales of Change - Chapter 3: Writing on the Wall

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our third genus contains the Dragons of Social Comparison and Social Norms.Every aspect of who we are is mediated by these Dragons: we adjust to the n...

Scales of Change - Chapter 2: Technosalvation

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meet our second genus of Dragons – Ideologies. These are constellations of beliefs and values; filters for understanding the world.One species of Id...

Scales of Change - Chapter 1: Hope Punk

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this chapter we meet our first genus of dragons: Artusnoia – the dragons of Limited Cognition.Among them, the twin dragons of Perceived Behaviour...

Scales of Change - Introduction: A Theory of Change

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Before we lace up our boots and head into the field, some introductions are in order.What are the Dragons of Climate Inaction? Where do they come from...

Announcing "Scales of Change"

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Season 2 may be over, but Future Ecologies is still going strong.We're so excited to announce that our new *weekly* 8-part miniseries will hitting you...

FE2.9 - Kelp Worlds: In the Balance (Part 3)

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To find out what the future might hold for Kelp, Sea Otters, Urchin, and Abalone, we're taking you to Haida Gwaii – an archipelago famous for both i...

FE2.8 - Kelp Worlds: Ocean People (Part 2)

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ecological science has had a persistent blind spot: the deep involvement of Indigenous peoples in managing their lands and waters. The return of Sea O...

FE2.7 - Kelp Worlds: Trophic Cascadia (Part 1)

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How did nuclear testing accidentally reshape our understanding of food webs and marine ecology? Why did sea otters bounce back from near-extinction on...

FE2.6 - Podcasters of the World, Relax!

08 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A more efficient world is simply cleaner, greener, and more sustainable. Or is it? This month, we’re exploring some of the ways we can reset our lon...

[TEASER] What Does a Mushroom Hear?

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is an excerpt from episode 5 of our Patreon-exclusive series: “Meet Your Fungal Associates” Pay what you can – as little as a $1 per month ...

FE2.5 - The Nature of Sound

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The world is full of sound. With the help of Hildegard Westerkamp, Bernie Krause, and Nick Friedman, we untangle some of the amazing ways that we can ...

FE2.4 - Rematriation

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

No matter where we call home, the land beneath us has been in a long and constant relationship with people. Some of these people may be our ancestors,...

[REISSUE] FE1.3 - The Loneliest Plants

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today is the 10th anniversary of the rediscovery of the Franciscan manzanita! To celebrate, we're re-releasing this episode from Season 1.What do you ...

FE2.3 - Communia Omnia

09 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Who, or what, is a Naturalist? With the help of author Briony Penn, we trace the intertwined stories of two pivotal characters in the modern environme...

FE2.2 - On Fire: In the Wobble (Part 3)

11 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Another year, another fire season. We’ve already had a lot to say about wildfire, forest science, traditional ecological knowledge, and prescribed b...

FE2.1 - Enlichenment and the Triage of Life

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lichens: ecosystems unto themselves. They’re diverse, apparently ubiquitous, and foundational to life on terrestrial earth. But this episode isn’t...

[UNLOCKED] Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We've unlocked our 11-episode Patreon series – Dr. Lisa-ann Gershwin, and occasionally the two of us, dive deep into jellyfish species and phyla. Fi...

True Dreams: The Music of Season 1

01 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve dropped an album. Those in the know might recognize the prolific Sunfish Moon Light as the musical alter-ego of Future Ecologies co-host, Adam...

FE1.11 - Funerary Ecologies

07 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Forever is a really long time. This episode is about death, and its transformative power on the landscape. It’s also the last episode of Season 1.It...

FE1.10 - Dams: Rushing Downriver (Part 2)

22 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this conclusion to our series on dam removal, we travel from the Klamath up to the Olympic Peninsula, and the site of the former Elwha and Glines C...