Hopes For Thunder Bay's Imminent Future Episodes
Dec. 19, 2023
5.10 The Money is Knocking, open the door with Richard Wong
The Season Finale features development lawyer Richard Wong with his thoughts after talking about engaging successfully with Corporations, and financing the big changes you want to see - at the Northwest Climate Gathering in …
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Nov. 28, 2023
5.7 reprise Food Futures with Brendan Grant, organic farmer
A rebroadcast of an episode first shared May 17, 2022. What it would take to achieve food security in Thunder Bay, and what blows Brendan’s mind in every teaspoon of soil. Brendan Grant is leading discussion of this topic at…
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Nov. 14, 2023
4.5 Keira Essex Relates
Keira Essex is is an environmental studies student at Lakehead University, an activist, and a novice photographer of mixed settler-Anishinaabe heritage. She is one of the people pulling together the Northwest Climate Gatheri…
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Nov. 7, 2023
4.4 Kevin Brooks Sparks Community Action
Kevin Brooks teaches and researches Social Justice as a Program Advisor at Lakehead University. He is one of the people shaping and leading the Northwest Climate Gathering November 25 & 26. Our conversation circled back to h…
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Oct. 24, 2023
4.2 Hope & Action Gathered In
From gathering a harvest, to gathering momentum and attention. Considering how fear hunts us, and hope needs to be reached for. Proposing the power of community. Hoping for utopia and savouring joy.
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May 16, 2023
3.7 Breath with Curniss McGoldrick
City as home, where you can breath, slow down, connect, relax. The importance of difficult conversations. Many hands make for light work. Budget to support your priorities. Choices must be made. Set boundaries, speak up. Ly…
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June 28, 2022
1.9 Being Ancestors - season finale with Betty Carpick plus Ben & Sam
It’s really about people and the planet; Why go forth with pride, compassion and joy; How to help intergenerational, interdisciplinary, inclusive communities thrive; Celebrating the Thunder Bay trifecta; Slowing down & build…
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June 21, 2022
1.8 Getting to Know Home - with Ledah McKellar
Why imagine the change you want to see; How to build on the three pillars of sustainability: reciprocity, interconnection and gratitude; what goes deeper than emissions reduction; why everybody has to get involved; how this …
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June 14, 2022
1.7 Times Change- with Muriel Squires (+ Sam, Ben & Arno)
Perspectives on how times change; what beauty makes; why reassure people; harking back to a pre-disposable economy; how to get the creative juices flowing; how to become an expert without training; the more you learn, the m…
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June 7, 2022
1.6 Greening City with Summer Stevenson
Summer StevensonSustainability Coordinator for the City of Thunder Bay
How the city works determines how we work in it; a million ton goal and 36 month count-down; engineering for unpredictable extremes; being Brene Brown a…
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May 31, 2022
1.5 The People in your Neighbourhood - with Charla Robinson, buy local
Featuring Charla Robinson, Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce (plus Ben & Sam)
How local business is the life blood of a community & has a money-back guarantee; The failed experiment fix that will transform Thunder Bay; Why c…
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May 24, 2022
1.4 The Pen is Mightier - Provincial Election thoughts
Featuring Judith Monteith-Farrell; Tracey MacKinnon & Rob Barrett.
Referencing Bren Smith & William McDonough.
Being the squeak; gather expertise and lift muzzles; there is a deficit of autonomy in our economy; draw down…
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May 17, 2022
1.3 Food Futures - with Brendan Grant of Sleepy G Farm
Why food is the most important thing; What it takes to achieve food security in Thunder Bay; Why Thunder Bay is a misnomer; why stop complaining and make it happen ourselves; What blows Brendan’s mind in every teaspoon of li…
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May 3, 2022
1.1 Genesis - with Ben & Sam
Change is Needed and Change is Being Seeded
Ben & Sam remember with Heather the night Ben cried and why. Heather asks them to imagine the Thunder Bay they want that is fossil-fuel-free and prepared to weather the climate em…
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