Nerdy About Nature
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Nerdy About Nature
Hosted by Ross Reid, Nerdy About Nature is a passion project that creates fun, educational content with the aim of inspiring folks to engage with the outdoor world, to fall in love with it, and to advocate on it's behalf so that we can create a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and just future for...
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Podchat 32 | Marine Stewardship, Education & Building Connection with Laura Griffith-Cochrane
Out on the west coast of Vancouver Island exists an awesome little non-profit that siphons sea water from the harbour into tanks on land, which briefl...
Podchat 31 | Better Fiber Sourcing to Protect our Forests with Val Langer
Forests are incredibly important ecosystems on our planet for many different reasons from carbon storage to biodiversity, and yet they face constant p...
Podchat 30 | The Majesty of Killer Whales with Fred, The Orca Man
Whale, we've shore got a fun chat lined up for y'all today! Sea what I did there?
Silly puns aside, we're talking all about Orcas,...
Podchat 29 | Melding Indigenous Knowledge & Western Science with Leigh Joseph
There is a lot of talk these days about the melding of Indigenous knowledge with Western Science, and I couldn't think of anyone better to get into th...
Undercurrents 1.31.25 | Science Funding in trump's America
This is yet another special edition of Undercurrents - instead of sharing and discussing recent science news, articles or studies here, Julia & Ross d...
Podchat 28 | Indigenous Knowledge, Science, Arts and Community with Awi'nakola (Rande Cook & Mark Worthing)
We face a variety of critical issues these days that all seem to be culminating at one big crossroads, and the interconnection of them all can make it...
Undercurrents 11.8.24 | The US Election Takeaways & Thoughts
This is a special edition of Undercurrents - instead of sharing and discussing recent news, articles or studies here, Julia & Ross delve into their th...
Thought Snacks | Post-Political Campaign Reflections and Thoughts
In case you missed it, I took a brief hiatus from your regular programming to run for MLA of the Mid Island - Pacific Rim riding as the Green Party of...
Podchat 27 | Tla-O-Qui-Aht Land Vision & Indigenous Stewardship with Saya Masso
Over the past 40 years, Tla-O-Qui-Aht First Nation has been fighting relentlessly for their traditional unceded territory with the colonial government...
Podchat 26 | Deconstruction, Reducing Waste & Re-envisioning How We Build with Adam Corneil
For the past couple hundred years, buildings and homes in North America have been constructied using virgin timber from the vast forest resources that...
Podchat 25 | The power of Economic Reconciliation with Michelle Laviolette
What is economic reconciliation, why is it important, and what does it have to do with protecting lands and empowering communities?
Podchat 24 | Managing our forests for a better future - Ecoforestry with Barry Gates
Forestry is a large part of the culture and economy of the PNW in both the US and Canada, but over a century of poor forest management has led to some...
Undercurrents 4.16.24 | Heatwave trends, bad winters, forest fires and better management in a changing climate
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and...
Undercurrents 3.27.24 | Boiling Microplastics, Oil & Gas Gaslighting, Issues with Glyphosate, and Ridiculous Climate Bandaid Solutions
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and...
Closed-door deals & lies from the Ministry of Forests, and how we can reimagine our broken systems | Thoughsnacks
Oo hot goss’ alert!
A new leaked map shows that while the top scientists on the Oldgrowth Technical Advisory Committee panel were...
Undercurrents - Good news special! | 3.5.24 - Oceanic nutrients, forest cover temps, plastic bag reduction and using your voice works!
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and...
Undercurrents | 2.20.24 - Changing Ocean Currents & Temps, Herbarium Shut Downs, Forest Composure & Droughts, and OGMAs
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and...
Thought Snacks | What is a Bioregion, and why do they matter?
What the heck is a bioregion, what does that mean and why does it matter?
Well, I’ll tell ya, because thinking bioregionally is a key com...
Podchat 23 | Geomorphology of the Cascadian Bioregion w/ Pierre Friele - IE, how our land was formed
Do you ever stop to think about the dirt under your feet, or in this case the rock, and wonder how it got there? Well the answer is...complicated, but...
Undercurrents | 1.30.24 - Saving Bats, Plants Having Less Sex, How Tardigrades Survive, and an Incredibly Hot Planet
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and...
Undercurrents | 1.18.24 - Antarctic heatwaves, deep sea mining, dying matriarchs, and forest restoration, destruction and fire resilience.
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and...
Undercurrents | New Series Introduction
The first introduction episode to a new podcast series I'm starting here called 'Undercurrents'
Every couple of weeks, I'll be con...
Podchat 22 | Politics for a Better Future with Sonia Furstenau
At a top level, the lives we live are governed by political systems which control regulations, policy and set enforcements for how we treat each other...
Podchat 21 | Everyday Microbes & Life on Life on Life with Julia Huggins
On every surface of every single thing, there are tiny microbial forces at work creating the world we live in. From oily sheens on pond water to stre...
Podchat 20 | The Wonderful World of Bees with Emilie Usher
Have you ever stopped for a moment to think about where all our food comes from, and how it came to be? Well, if you know anything about ecology and l...
Thought Snack | Changing Fire Regimes of North America
Fire is such a hot topic these days - pun intended! Yet we used to have a lot more fire across the landscape than we do today…so whats going on?
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Thought Snacks | Getting a PHEV Car in the era of Climate Change
After a serious of events that left me in need of a new car and long, arduous process of deliberation, I ended up getting a used PHEV, and decided to...
Podchat 19 | The Mental Health Benefits of Restorative Gardening with Jordan Mara
You may have heard that being amongst a forest can help calm your nervous system, but did you know that getting your hands dirty can help clear your m...
Thought Snacks | Why don't we protect endangered ecosystems like we do species?
Extinction is a common threat to thousands of species these days as a result of human development, logging, pollution, habitat loss and fragmentation,...
Podchats 18 | Grassland Ecosystems & Oak Meadows of Cascadia with Nancy Shackelford
Grasslands are incredibly biodiverse and carbon rich ecosystems that perform numerous ecological functions, yet many of them across Turtle Island have...
Thought Snacks | Fire Mitigation Loopholes use to continue Logging Oldgrowth Forest
I'm going to start releasing some of my slightly longer video here in a new series I'm tentatively calling 'Thought Snacks', because that's what they...
Podchat 17 | Decarbonizing the grid & getting away from fossil fuels with Stephen Thomas
One of the biggest hurdles we face today is reducing our dependence on fossil fuels for energy, which are rampant in just about everything we do and c...
Podchat 16 | The Impact of Open Net Fish Farms & Aquaculture on Wild Salmon with Dr. Kilian Stehfest
A few months ago in the news, you may have heard or seen articles about open net fish farms being removed from BC waters, and thought, “Wow! That’s g...
Podchat 15 | Greenwashing and Misleading Sustainability Certifications in Forestry with Peter Wood
Have you ever seen those slick little certification logos on a product that claims it comes from sustainable forestry practices? Unfortunately, those...
Podchat 14 | Where Endangered Species, Policy & Biodiversity Goals Converge in BC (oh, and glyphosate) with Charlotte Dawe
Charlotte Dawe is a campaigner with the Wilderness Committee who works on various issues regarding policy around biodiversity, at-risk & endangered sp...
Podchat 13 | Indigenous Involvement in Outdoor Sports with Sandy Ward
A founding member of Indigenous Women Outdoors and coach with ILSA, Sandy Ward is an avid snowboarder, mountain biker and climber from the Lil'wat nat...
Podchat 12 | Wolf Conservation Ethics, Caribou and the Wolf Cull with Chelsea Greer
Chelsea Greer is the Wolf Conservation Program Director at Raincoast Conservation, and we sat down one Autumn morning in the woods to chat all about w...
Podchat 11 | Rebuilding Indigenous Culture and Community with Siginaak Court Larabee
Siginaak Court Larabee is an incredible human who also happens to be the director of the Indigenous Life Sport Academy, a non-profit which works to pr...
Podchat 10 | Oceanic Microbes, Currents and Climate Change with Julia Huggins
The Oceans are an incredible feature of this planet that we all share, connecting not only coastal communities and ecosystems to one another, but all...
Podchat 09 | Biodiversity & Ecosystem Fragmentation in Old Growth Forests with Dr Rachel Holt
Dr Rachel Holt is a forest ecologist based out of Nelson BC, and one of the authors of the infamous 'BC's Old Growth Forest: A Last Stand for Biodiver...