Recommended Head & Heart Nourishment:
Featured Thunder Bay initiatives:
Roots to Harvest //www.rootstoharvest.org/
Sleepy G Farm http://www.sleepygfarm.ca/
Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce https://www.tbchamber.ca/
Thunder Bay citizens engagement portal www.getinvolvedthunderbay.ca
Thunder Bay municipal sustainability https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/earthcare.aspx
Lakehead University Sustainability https://www.lakeheadu.ca/about/sustainability
Michele Solomon: treaty history of Fort William First Nation land: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4og2C7PyQ
Books:
Old Man On His Back: portrait of a prairie landscape by Sharon Butala
The Fragile Earth - writing from the New Yorker on climate change edited by David Remnick & Henry Finder
Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken
A Good War by Seth Klein
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
Saving Us by Katherine Hayhoe
Hope Matters by Elin Kelsey
Value(s) by Mark Carney
Eat Like A Fish by Bren Smith
Peach Fuzz & Onion Skins by Bonnie Sitter & ShirleyAn English
How Solar Energy Became Cheap by Gregory Nemet
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
The Singing Revolution by Priit Verilind
The Secret Wisdom of Nature & really anything by Peter Wohlleben
The 100 Mile Diet by Alisa Smith & J. B. MacKinnon
Animal, Mineral, Miracle & Small Wonder & really anything by Barbara Kingsolver
You Are Here by Chris Hadfield
The Omnivore's Dilemma & In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Video:
Kurzgesagt -in a Nutshell: Good News!
L'Homme Qui Plantait des Arbres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HtY6yEr5E4
Podcasts:
Race Against Climate Change (Canada's National Observer)
Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature
Unforked (CBC) - taking the pulse
Smart Prosperity (University of Ottawa affiliated NGO)
What on Earth (CBC)
Auntie Up! (Makwa Creative)
Future Ecologies (BC)
Tai Asks Why (CBC)
Quirks & Quarks (CBC)
We Can Do Hard Things (US)
Sustainababble (UK)
TED climate (US)
Storytime with Seth Rogen
Ideas: Leslie Kearn, Feminist City (Mar 2021) (CBC)
Green Dreamer: Johann Hari (deep thinking) & Brad Evans (community vs. violence)
Future Cities: William McDonough, architect, author: Cradle to Cradle (April 12 '22)
Studies:
National Farmers Union Climate Change Reports:
https://www.nfu.ca/campaigns/climate-change/
Smart Prosperity Institute - Accelerating Clean Innovation in Canada https://institute.smartprosperity.ca/cleaninnovation
Documentaries:
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
Abstract Human: The World Within
My Octopus Teacher
This Changes Everything
Magazines:
The Walrus
The New Yorker (Nov 8 21 article by Gideon Lewis-Kraus on early cities)
The Narwhal
The Breach
Canada’s National Observer
Newsletter:
Minimum Viable Planet by Sarah Lazarovic https://www.mvp.ist/