Small Planet Heroes
Episodes
David Suzuki: David's Community Party
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An Invitation from David Suzuki to Connect, Commit, Compete, and Correct Our Way to Sustainability Within and Beyond Our GenerationDavid Suzuki has sp...
Bob Watson: The Risks of Doing Nothing
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Watson Discusses Large-Scale Systems Transformation, His Life in Science Assessment, and the Need for Trust in an Anti-Science EraGlobal science a...
Terre Satterfield: Culture is a Co-Production
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Terre Satterfield Explores Queasy Questions, the Quest for Environmental Justice, and the Narrative Imperative in Ecosystems Services ResearchQueasy q...
David Boyd: Nature’s Rights are Human Fights
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David R. Boyd on Levering Transformative Change for a Healthy Environment from a Global Legal Perspective In the coastal Wild West, when laws and just...
Ingrid Waldron: There’s Something in the Water and the Blood
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Waldron’s Road to Racial and Environmental Justice Through Community, Law, and Collective ActionGrowing up in Montreal, young Ingrid Waldron ...
Eli Enns: We are All Treaty People
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Enns On Indigenous Conservation and Bringing Balance Back Conservationist Eli Enns’ voice exudes warmth, irony, and a nuanced historical awarene...
Teika Newton: No Place Is Isolated, No One a Stranger
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From a relatively isolated, “tech-less” childhood in small-town Ontario to the unglamorous frontlines of community-based environmental organizing,...
Suzanne Simard: Speaking for the Trees, Calling for Change
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Simard revolutionized how we understand forests with her discovery of the “wood wide web,” the vast underground network that allows trees ...
Alex Morton: Walk Beside Me, Not Behind Me
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Morton on Impossible Resilience, the Call to Kindness, and Building Activist Legacies for The Big TeamAlexandra (Alex) Morton has been called a m...
What Even is a Small Planet Hero?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be a Small Planet Hero? In this pilot, co-hosts Kai Chan (professor and Canada Research Chair at UBC) and Clare Price (UBC gradua...
Community, Growing up, and Refugee Status with Muhaddisa Sarwari
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is poised to worsen the refugee crisis badly as people flee floods and fires, as life becomes untenable in places with prolonged drough...
The Art of Listening with Johnny Trinh
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The path to sustainable futures is one that overcomes polarization, not just about the climate crisis and solutions to it, but all manner of things. W...
Hero Culture, Overworking, and Materialism with Derek Strokon
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Self-sacrifice: We tend to celebrate it. But when celebrating self-sacrifice becomes a culture of overworking for the sake of one’s employer and one...
Tradition, Co-generational Living, and Unconditional Love with Dr. Tanya Gee
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s economy, people are being guided to move back home or take on roommates to make housing affordable. This may seem strange and unwelcome a...
Gender and Sexuality, Jein, and Productive Dialogues with Kai Scott
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our vision of a sustainable future embraces a diversity of people as equals, whether they’re unlike us in their gender, sexuality, or in their under...
Pilot: Social Signaling, Defending Ants, and Introducing Kai!
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s episode, we’ll be speaking to Kai Chan, our future host and an interdisciplinary professor and Canada Research Chair at UBC. He is a su...