Intergenerational Conversations on Climate

Intergenerational Conversations on Climate

Each podcast episode brings together voices from high school students and senior citizens to discuss their concerns about climate change.

Episodes

April 15, 2024 45 mins

Full classroom, "in the round"-style. Bruce Langhus once again takes the reigns with an entire class of senior students at Cambridge-Narrows School, and this is one episode you don't want to miss, because it’s the last one! 

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Agronomist Paul Breau takes prepared questions about farming, what every good farm needs, and the financial aspects of it all.

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From our new series, Voices Climate Teaching Resources - stories suitable for primary school students to learn about climate concerns.

This series is brought to you by Voices for Sustainable Environments and Communities, and funded by the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund.

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From our new series, Voices Climate Teaching Resources - stories suitable for primary school students to learn about climate concerns.

This series is brought to you by Voices for Sustainable Environments and Communities, and funded by the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund. 

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February 26, 2024 91 mins

Full classroom, "in the round"-style. Bruce Langhus takes the reigns with an entire class of Grade 8 students at Cambridge-Narrows School, and this is one episode you don't want to miss!

While we've established a level of concern from citizens both young and senior over three seasons, there's always an outlier. This is it.

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Cayden, Danni, and Will are back, and this time they've brought Nevada with them - and all four of them face off with Mayor Derek Pleadwell of the municipality of Arcadia. Together, we all learn a civics lesson in what it takes to be an engaged citizen, and about how changing climate affects a small village along the bank of the Saint John River. Hint: It's not good.

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The Fearsome Foursome - Sylvia, Logan, Michaela and Emma - make their return to discuss what goes into climate change mitigation from the viewpoint of the government.

Joined by the head of the Oromocto Town Planning Council Dallas Gillis, we all learn something from these 45 minutes.

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Raw footage of a conversation with Oromocto high school students on what's driving their decisions, and steps they can take to improve the environment from their own home.

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Three students from middle school in Gagetown, NB Canada took part in a roundtable discussion in a first for Intergenerational Conversations. Do students from grades 7 and 8 have different views than those who are seniors in high school? Let's find out!

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September 6, 2023 47 mins

In a preview of Season 3, Bruce gets behind the microphone with a Texas high school teacher - his own daughter, Angie, discussing the differences between New Brunswickers and Texans as we combat a brutal summer of wildfires and heat domes.

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March 18, 2023 12 mins

A while back, in the summer of 2022, we embarked upon a project aimed at bringing together the youth of province and senior citizens from the same geographical neighbourhoods to discuss the similarities and differences between the two age groups as it relates to how we view climate crises.

 Our Intergenerational Conversations on Climate series encapsulated in its 12 episodes ways that we can combat the effects of climate change in o...

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Has Planet Earth reached its final episode?

We handpicked four of our past guest teens to participate in an open forum roundtable discussing why it's not too late and what they can do as the next generation of environmental warriors to pick up the baton.

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December 10, 2022 35 mins

We run the gamut of almost every previous episode in this season finale, asking all of the toughest questions, and both participants show how able they are to answer!

Full of thoughtful insights, it's an episode fit for a finale, so give it a listen.

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December 2, 2022 30 mins

Is mass transportation the answer to local climate change challenges? Brayden and Clair join Dr. Bruce Langhus as we explore this question and many more.

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November 26, 2022 42 mins

Bella and Paul have a lengthy discussion about what steps they take in their day-to-day lives to help heal the world.

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November 18, 2022 27 mins

Conner and Tom discuss electric vs. combustion, and whether teenagers are doing enough to sound the alarm on climate change.

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November 11, 2022 42 mins

In our second season opener, Luciel Jackson and Kim Hughes discuss the role of government (and whether they can be reasoned with), and public attitudes toward the changing climate.

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August 30, 2022 54 mins

Usual podcast host Bruce Langhus has a seat on the other side as he and his American son John have a truly intergenerational conversation on climate. Discussed in this episode is how various levels of government on both sides of the border are being informed, and the differences between the United States of America and Canada in how to best deal with our own issues at home, and as a global community.

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August 19, 2022 22 mins

Gagetown, New Brunswick's Deputy Mayor Pat and Olivia discuss what role the government should be playing in improving the environment.

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August 12, 2022 25 mins

April and Don discuss a myriad of topics surrounding how to slow down the climate disaster and what the biggest threat is to mother nature... and the answer might shock you.

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