Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

How do we hold the tension between automation advancements intended to make everyday life easier, with the intimacy that can only come through the work of our hands? What can we learn from Cree worldviews and ways of living? And what does it mean to navigate hardships that arise from systemic injustice next to the ones that come from a deeper participation in life?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chane speaks with Adrian Sutherland, a roots-rocker-with-heart from Attawapiskat in Ontario’s Far North.
Join us as Adrian offers a glimpse into the Cree traditions, crafts, and worldviews that have influenced his life as a musician, and more.
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The musical offerings in this episode are "Notawe" and "Precious" by Adrian Sutherland.

What do we know about the oldest surviving textiles of the world? How might learning about the biocultural history of fibers transform how we relate to fashion? And what does it mean to remember the sacredness of the cloth — in conjunction with questions around access and affordability?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Carry Somers, the Co-founder of Fashion Revolution and the author of The Nature of Fashion.
Join us as we reconnect with the origins of textiles and what they teach us about the inseparability of culture and ecology.
This episode's musical feature is “Novo Amanhecer” by Nessi Gomes.

How do we cultivate active hope through engaging in small, daily actions? What can we learn about social organizing and community building from looking at it through a permaculture lens? And what does it mean to re-establish our connections with land, water, and community — whether we live in the heart of cities or in more rural contexts?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Kirsten Bradley, the co-founder of Milkwood and the author of The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook.
Join us as we chat through how the permaculture principles relate to social change — and how we might dig our hands in the dirt to participate in that action.
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Episode song feature: “Grandmother” by Ayla Schafer

How does the outdoor industry profit off of “the wilderness” as an extractive, consumable experience? How have outdoor apparel companies benefited from sanitizing the history of national parks and public lands? And what does it mean to recognize the colonial mentality behind certain forms of exploration — bagging peaks, checking off trails, and securing photographs of scenic spots without going any deeper?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Joseph Whitson, a political ecologist and the author of Marketing the Wilderness.
Join us as we peel back the layers of the recreation-industrial complex — politicizing the idea of “protecting the wilderness” often portrayed as a bipartisan interest — and sit with what it means to travel, hike, and recreate in the “great outdoors” while confronting questions of complicity.
Episode musical feature: “Eden” by Ryne Meadow

"There is an uncanniness, a way in which [fungi] were not behaving perfectly, in which it's hard to study them in a petri dish… They upset that wish that everything would fall into binaries and categories that have made sense." – Maria Pinto
This episode features Maria Pinto, an author and educator who teaches for the literary nonprofit GrubStreet. Her book of lyric essays about mushrooms, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival, was published by Great Circle Books at UNC Press.
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Episode artwork: Paul Lewin
Song features: “If You Want To, You Will” by Lemon Myrtle