Forty episodes to enjoy!
Something Different This Way Comes

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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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June 7, 2022

1.6 How The City Works Determines How We Work - writing on my wall

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 cit…

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May 31, 2022

1.5 People in your Neighbourhood - writing on my wall

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…

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May 24, 2022

1.4 Pen is Mightier - writing on my wall

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 pe…

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May 17, 2022

1.3 Food Futures - Writing on my Wall

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…

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May 15, 2022

1.2 Tips for Change Makers - Writing on my Wall

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 ow…

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May 10, 2022

1.1 Genesis Writing on my Wall

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 …

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April 17, 2022

Heather's Reference Library of Hope

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 …

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