Forty episodes to enjoy!
Something Different This Way Comes

Season 2

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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Something Different This Way Comes
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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Something Different This Way Comes
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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Nov. 8, 2022

2.6 The Paulo Friere Two Step featuring Dr. Fay Martin

The only way to get out of the mess we’re in: Take Back The Community; paxis and the Paulo Freire two-step of action & reflection; Saul Alinsky’s cut the issue then set specific, immediate & realizable actions; turn the Eeyo…
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Something Different This Way Comes
Nov. 1, 2022

2.5 All Bring Our All - non-binary thinking

The dark side of Scarborough Fair; tightropes, paradox Venn diagrams & the power of non-binary thinking; how deep runs our bias & how best to undo it; persistence pays; Sleeping Giant and how raptors soar Details (including…
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Something Different This Way Comes
Oct. 25, 2022

2.4 The Places You’ll Go - featuring Paul Berger

Thunder Bay hybrid then electric car owner experience; personal carbon budgeting - get to net zero on your own terms; the sad tale of the Memorial Bike Lane proposal; the 4 scientifically proven keys to happiness; getting to…
Guest: Paul Berger
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Something Different This Way Comes
Oct. 18, 2022

2.3 Count me In - Capital Income

Sam is left speechless; Wealthy yet insecure; compounding punishing insufficiencies; today’s transformations - chosen or imposed; parables of plenty vs. poverty; the real tragedy of the commons; divest from fear - invest in …
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Something Different This Way Comes
Oct. 11, 2022

2.2 Save the Mothers and Methane counterspun

Featuring Phil McGuire. Mothers are the key to our prosperity; thanks for a warm introduction; less publicity and more listening; dam removal’s winning arguments & growing popularity; gravity batteries; counterspinning natur…
Guest: Phil McGuire
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Oct. 3, 2022

2.1 Ground Level Lessons - season launch

Less Mowing, More Growing. Sami says: don’t think you are smarter than mother nature. Colonial trade, Colonial work, Colonial ruins and my family’s history settling the prairies. An inspiring tale of a Calgary home going all…
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