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Feb. 18, 2024

Northwest Climate Gathering 2023: Hope & Action Artist in Residence

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 hope…

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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 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…

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Nov. 15, 2022

2.7 Love Love Hive Mind - bite size revolutions

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/ …

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Nov. 8, 2022

2.6 the Paulo Friere Two Step featuring Dr. Fay Martin

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) c…

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Oct. 25, 2022

2.4 Places you'll go - featuring Paul Berger

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…

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Oct. 18, 2022

2.3 You Can Count on Me - Capital and income

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/ …

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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 natural gas a…

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Oct. 4, 2022

2.1 Ground Level Lessons featuring Less Mowing, More Growing

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 …

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June 28, 2022

1.9 Being Ancestors with Betty Carpick (plus season wrap with Ben & Sam)

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 bo…

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June 14, 2022

1.7 Times Change - Writing on my Wall

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. The…

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