Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Jan. 15, 2021

Symposium on Wildlife Trade: Not Cool - Sea Cucumber Crime in Sri Lanka and India

OceansAsia is a Hong Kong-based marine conservation organization dedicated to protecting our oceans and combating illegal fishing in Asia through the use of investigation and research. OceansAsia works on a wide range of marine conservation issues, including illegal fishing, marine plastic pollution, smuggling and crime in the fisheries supply chain, and coral propagation. Here, I talk about our ongoing work on sea cucumber crime.

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Amazing Places, Dec. 13, 2020

Amazing Places - #23 Creating connections w/ Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff

Episode 23 of Amazing Places! This week Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff returns to the podcast to discuss loneliness. This holiday season is going to be different than years past. For those who live alone, it could feel very lonely. Teale and I discuss the effects of loneliness and isolation and things that communities, governments and NGOs can do to help rebuild networks to connect us.

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Humanist Canada, Dec. 3, 2020

Webinar Series 2020: Strategies in Reproductive Health Activism

This talk surveys a number of these strategies. It will highlight efforts across Canada to increase access to prescription contraception, including the AccessBC Campaign in British Columbia and the ContraceptiON Campaign in Ontario.
 

The talk will then delve into the strategy of Women on Waves (WoW), an international non-governmental organization that seeks to prevent unsafe abortions and unwanted pregnancies. 

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Grimshaw Speakers, Nov. 10, 2020

Grimshaw Speakers #8: Expert Insights with Teale Phelps Bondaroff

In our first Expert Insights event of the new academic year, we spoke with Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff, a researcher and community organizer with a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Bondaroff talked to us about his paper “Micronationalism and Performative Sovereignty: the Origins of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Reef” and discussed the origins, evolution, strategies and outcomes of this kingdom. Produced by Beatriz Silva.

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Amazing Places, July 13, 2020

Amazing Places - Reimagining our public spaces w/ Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff

The first episode of the Amazing Places podcast! My guest is Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff. In this episode we dive into reimagining our public spaces. The COVID pandemic has created a new opportunity to experiment and rethink our roadways, pathways, sidewalks and public spaces. What does the "new normal" look like and are these changes temporary or long-term?

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One Erth, May 31, 2020

ONE erTH & Oceans Asia Podcast - The Plastic Crisis

Co-Founder of ONE erTH, Phil McCluskey, speaks with Director of Research at Oceans Asia, Teale Phelps Bondaroff on the plastic crisis the planet continues to face and other issues.

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BC Humanists, March 13, 2020

Inspecting the House of Prayers

At the end of November, MLAs voted unanimously to begin every day's sitting of the BC Legislature with "prayers and reflections" rather than "prayers." The change followed the publication in September of the BC Humanist Association's landmark House of Prayers Report.

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The Report examined the transcripts of 873 prayers said in the legislature between October 2003 and February 2019. It also included a thorough consideration of the various arguments against the practice and provided a series of recommendations for reform...

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Politicoast, January 31, 2020

EP 174: BC also stands for birth control

Sonia Furstenau joins the race for leader of the BC Greens and other bcpoli stories, an interview with AccessBC for free birth control and does the next Conservative leader needs to be bilingual.

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Meaningful Nonsense, January 25, 2020

The prescription contraception interview with Teale Phelps Bondaroff

In this one (which is actually an interview format & the first of more to come!), I was able to chop it up with Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff, who is the Chair and Co-Founder of the AccessBC Campaign for free prescription contraception in BC. You can learn more about the campaign at . You can learn more about Teale and his various projects/research at .

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CFAX 1070, January 14, 2020

Adam Stirling Hour 3 - January 14

Adam has a conversation with Teale Phelps-Bondaroff and Bree Gardner from Access BC, on why their organization is advocating for publicly funded contraception for all.

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The Atheist Nomads, January 2, 2020

Episode 336 – Prayer in Victoria with Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff

I chatted down with the folks at The Atheist Nomads Podcast and talked about my ongoing work with the BC Humanist Association studying prayer in the BC Legislature, and the findings of our recent House of Prayers Report.

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CFAX 1070, November 25, 2019

Adam Stirling Hour 3 - November 25

Teale Phelps Bondaroff, a community organizer petitioning Saanich to switch to electric leaf blowers, joins Adam in-studio to discuss the environmental and health impacts of using gas powered leaf blowers. 

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Civics Factor, March 2019

Interview with Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff

In this interview we look at logical fallacies, what types of debates there are, how they can be made more constructive, and how it can be taught in a 21st century civics education.

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Monorail City Podcast, June 21, 2017

Podcast: Are Little Free Libraries Good For Communities? — with Teale Phelps Bondaroff

Teale Phelps Bondaroff, a local champion of the Little Free Library scene in Victoria, Canada, is one of those people and he joins us to share his rebuttal against this criticism and provides a very compelling case as to why these little public boxes of books are actually really good for building community, promoting literacy and supporting placemaking...

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