Michael is on a quest to get his environmental footprint as low as humanly possible, so he built his own off-grid tiny house. But he doesn’t know if all the downsizing and minimizing make a difference. He feels in over his head! It’s time to bring in the experts. Join Michael as he sits down with scientists, policymakers, industry leaders, and environmental experts to figure out how to effectively reduce his footprint, while also exploring the bigger questions around sustainability and the good life.
In Over My Head
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Michael is on a quest to get his environmental footprint as low as humanly possible, so he built his own off-grid tiny house. But he doesn’t know if all the downsizing and minimizing make a difference. He feels in over his head! It’s time to bring in the experts. Join Michael as he sits down with scientists, policymakers, industry leaders, and environmental experts to figure out how to effectively reduce his footprint, while also exploring the bigger questions around sustainability and the good life.
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Recent Episodes
November 18, 2025
The Living-Green Myth: A Conversation With Michael Maniates
<p>Michael welcomes back <a href="https://michaelmaniates.com/">Michael Maniates</a> to talk about his new book, <a href="https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-living-green-myth--9781509527465">The Living-Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism</a>, which questions the dominant narrative that individuals can make a significant environmental impact through their consumer choices and lifestyle changes. Michael explains why this myth persists, including some of the history behind the living-green myth. They also discuss strategies to think beyond our individual lifestyle choices to make real change, including Michael's list of seven new living-green ideas to help you make a difference. </p><p><br>Michael Maniates is a former Professor of Social Science and former Chair of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. His teaching, research, and writing have focused broadly on environmental politics, sustainable consumption, and oppositional forces to transformative environmental governance. He has authored or co-authored five books and dozens of articles, opinion pieces, book chapters, and review essays. His recent work explored systems of sustainable consumption and production, social innovations for a low-growth/high-prosperity world, and the pitfalls and promise of conscientious consumption.<br><a href="https://www.inovermyheadpodcast.com/episodes/rethinking-growth-part-4-higher-education"><br>Rethinking Growth Part 4: Higher Education (original conversation with Michael Maniates)</a></p>
May 13, 2025
Returning to Myrnam
<p>In February 2023, Michael traveled to the village of Myrnam, Alberta, to interview staff and students at New Myrnam School, learning all about the sustainability projects, including a school bus they were converting into a tiny house. He recently went back to see what they were up to now and what progress they had made on the "cool bus".</p><p><a href="https://www.inovermyheadpodcast.com/episodes/planet-saving-superstar-new-myrnam-school">Planet-saving Superstar: New Myrnam School (original episode)</a></p><p><a href="https://michaelbartz.ca/short-films">The Road to Myrnam Documentary</a> </p>
October 4, 2024
An Indispensible Conversation About Plastic & Art
<p>Michael chats with sculptor, performance artist, and sewist Arianna Richardson (aka The Hobbyist) who works with discarded plastic and craft materials to explore themes of consumerism, gendered labour, waste, and excess. They discuss her work, plastics' unique connection to consumerism, using art to engage the public in conversations about sustainability and waste, and more. </p><p><a href="https://ariannarichardson.ca/info.html">Arianna Richardson's Website</a></p>
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