Posted July 27, 2026 Referencing: The 100-Mile Diet : A Year of Local Eating by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon published by Vintage Canada (Random House) in 2007 Permaculture - you can start with Wikipedia Michele Solomon's video introducing t…
Heather McLeod’s podcast Something Different This Way Comes was launched in the Spring of 2022 with one episode a week for two seasons a year, Spring and Fall. The podcast documents the conversations and learning informing Heather’s hopes for Thunde…
Teacher Mother Lake Superior; restoring through community engagement and simple, hands-on work; the success of water clean-up regulations and community-led initiatives since the 1980s; the opportunity to clean twenty Coastal sites in the City of Thu…
Referencing: https://www.uwaytbay.ca/community-impact/impact-stories/your-donations-in-action/ Peer Educator Flint talks about the Elevate program housing those sheltering in home encampments in Thunder Bayhttps://www.uwaytbay.ca/community-impact/ …
The Paulo Friere Two Step lyrics & chords - by Heather McLeod (a) Connecting, (G) Acting, (a) Learning & (D) Giving(G) These are my four keys to (C) happiness(G) These are the Four doors to (C) feeling blessed And we’ll build a (a) communityRenew …
Oh the places you'll go - lyrics & (chords) by Heather McLeod (A - A E A-)(A) It’s not so much where you’ve been as where you’re going(E) And how you make the most of every stop along the way(A) It’s not so much what you own as how you’re known(E) …
Referencinghttps://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CAGod Bless the Child by Billie Holiday The Bible Matthew chapter 25 & Luke chapter 8 Value(s) Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney https://www.riacanada.ca/ http…
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 natural gas a.k.a methane; n…
Referencing: The Fragile Earth - writing from The New Yorker on climate change edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder Old Man On His Back - portrait of a prairie landscape by Sharon Butala Featuring: Less Mowing, More Growing by Heather McLeod…
Betty Carpick: Take pride in being able to go forth with a shared legacy of care and compassion that’s really about people and the planet. - I think in this community we have this amazing trifecta. We have Lake Superior, we have the boreal forest…
Muriel Squires: -I look at this bunch of stuff and I think, “what am I going to do with it? What can I make?” It really gets the creative juices going far more than if I went out and bought a pattern. -I think back to my childhood. There were chil…
Summer StevensonSustainability Coordinator, City of Thunder Bay: -It’s not just about reducing emissions. It’s about improving the lives of everyone. -How the city works determines how we work in it. How do we help make the way the city operates m…
Charla Robinson, president of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce: -local business is the life blood of a community… jobs, taxes, charitable organizations all benefit. Choosing TBay First really does provide a money back guarantee for all of us, be…
Bren Smith https://www.greenwave.org/team -We need to draw down carbon by lifting up people. I'll tell you what a just transition is not: a soulless empty job or money alone. A just transition is about meaning and culture, jobs that people write…
1.3 Food Futures Brendan Grant of Sleepy G Farm -Vote for the world you want to live in. If we really had the will to feed ourselves, it is a lot more possible than you might think. Thunder Bay district has a lot more agricultural potential. - I…
1.2 Tips for Change Makers Erin Beagle of Roots to Harvest: -Roots to Harvest is like the bus. And I get to drive the bus. It is really nice to already have the vehicle to be doing some change making in. I'm not trying to be a voice on my own. Th…
Quotes from conversations in the podcast that stuck in my head so I I wrote them on my wall 1.1 Genesis I cried because I cried for the planet because we're killing stuff for no good reason-Ben I do try to stay hopeful.. and the first thing that …
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 port…