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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Dec. 12, 2023
5.9 Biking Viking Ken Shields Travels Green
Ken is the worker bee behind Just Bike TBay, the Memorial Link and Thunder Bay’s E.V. shows. And he was right at the heart of the Northwest Climate Gathering. We talk about the power of positivity and persistence, we celebra…
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Dec. 5, 2023
5.8 Northwest Climate Gathering tour by song
A season wrap before the season’s done - and a teaser for the episodes to come. With many songs, and an insider’s tour of the Northwest Climate Gathering 2023: Hope & Action. Good company as COP28 unfolds.
Referencin…
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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. 21, 2023
4.6 Lucie Lavoie’s peace & plenty
Talking gardening, city wilderness, the satisfaction of a well-stocked garage & peace with Lucie Lavoie. Lucie is a founding member of both Superior Seed Producers and EcoSuperior, where she was a program coordinator for ove…
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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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Nov. 6, 2023
4.1 Shy-Anne Hovorka Connects
A visit and new song with award-winning singer-songwriter and humanitarian Shy-Anne Hovorka, from her home near Nipigon. A fitting kick-off to season four.
Lyrics, links and more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
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Oct. 31, 2023
4.3 Dave Spies Protects Our Winter
Dave Spies is the Thunder Bay Chapter Lead of Protect Our Winters Canada and a third year law student at Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law. His research focus is on the intersection of environmental law, Indi…
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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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Aug. 5, 2023
Songs for Courage & Clarity - seasons 2&3, music only
Songs composed and recorded for this podcast by Heather McLeod - plus one co-composed and co-performed with Shy-Anne Hovorka.
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July 6, 2023
3a Gathering: Framework & curing anxiety
Two dozen gather to toast the podcast so far and seed the coming seasons envisioning what change they most want to see happen. With a detour to explore humbleness and hard conversations, cows as a cure, smoke as a trigger, a…
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May 23, 2023
3.8 Songs of the Kindness Economy
Summarizing Season three's seven episodes imagining the Kindness Economy with the songs each episode inspired, and a bit about how the rant or conversation fed the composition. By Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Cana…
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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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May 9, 2023
3.6 Judi Vinni Digs In
Conversation with Judi Vinni of https://willowspringscreativecentre.ca/ Care of our Elders; mixed ages & hands-on learning; therapeutic gardening; needs-inclusive employment; trust and relationships; Lappe Nordic Ski Centre …
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May 4, 2023
3.5 Kindness. Economy. Good & Messy
Considering the psychology of change - honour vs. dignity cultures, the kindness paradox; how to unlock capital, human and $: universal basic income, justice systems, no skin in the game loans & truly supporting micro-busine…
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April 25, 2023
3.4 Thora Cartlidge - green growing city
Stewarding the land, honouring our ecosystems: imagine, intercept, invest, integrate, innovate, infrastructure. Conversation with city planner Thora Cartlidge. Revitalize the East End - the opportunity and economy of investi…
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April 18, 2023
3.3 Drawing Circles with Cindy Crowe
Cindy Crowe of Blue Sky Community Healing Centre & Cindy Crowe Consulting with a conversation for those who feel overwhelmed and just want something do-able; protecting and witnessing the wild; the healing power of kindness,…
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April 11, 2023
3.2 Eating Well - three courses to plenty
Imagining the three courses serving plenty of food in the kindness economy: grown, kept and shared. Inspired by The Parachute Club’s Rise Up! Feeding and healing ourselves and our home; many hands make light work; and good w…
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April 4, 2023
3.1 Imagining the Stories We Tell in the Kindness Economy
Imagining story-telling industries, mechanics and touch stones in the Kindness Economy. With a scientifically-sound genesis story to start, some classic Joni Mitchell, a reboot of marketing, journalism, academia and accounta…
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Dec. 6, 2022
2.10 Season Two Finale - Summary in Song
Reaching for what Good Looks Like; the four keys to happiness; envisioning fossil-fuel freedom & local autonomy; System Justification Instincts & how to manage them; towards cosier, homier neighbourhoods; restoring our relat…
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Nov. 29, 2022
2.9 Do What You Can Do - solar power, heat pumps & wind
Learning from the pros: installing solar power and a heat pump in our home; guests Kevin Bowes of PowerTec Solar, Richard Lazlo of CutYourHomeCarbon.Com & my son Ben. Weighing pragmatic worries with energizing vision. A how-…
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Nov. 22, 2022
2.8 Caterpillar Fears & Lake Superior Love featuring Rob Stewart
Teacher Mother Lake Superior; restoring through community engagement and hands-on work; water clean-up successes since the 1980s; twenty Coastal sites in the City of Thunder Bay ready to restore; the shift from top-down to c…
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Nov. 15, 2022
2.7 Love Love Hive Mind - bite size revolutions
Loving community revolutions, one bite at a time; the Saul Alinksy vs. Paulo Friere recap; perfect is not on the picklist; Wendy Smith’s paradoxical problem solving; Margaret Mead’s how to change the world; Henk Ovink’s rebu…
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