Season 4
May 20, 2025
Sparking Community Gardens with Scott Pound
The John St. Extension Community Park and Gardens started guerrilla twenty years ago, one of the successful neighbourhood initiatives that informed Thunder Bay getting pro-active in supporting community gardening. This Spring...
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May 19, 2025
Victoria Day 2025 Rooting for Post-Colonial Changes
This was pre-recorded to be broadcast on CILU Radio Victoria Day, Monday May 19 at 6 pm here in Thunder Bay. But I messed up, didn't get the tape in on time to be cued, and they replayed last week episode instead. I hate for ...
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April 27, 2025
Greening Provincial Policy - a conversation with Mike Schreiner, MPP Green Party Ontario
A conversation with Provincial Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner held on April 23 touches on care and community, expensive current provincial legislature discouraging renewable energy production, the need & opportunity to bu...
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April 22, 2025
17% wins Climate Action Here
Why I'm in love with 17% - that's all it takes to tip Impactful Climate Action in our community from outlier to mainstream. And why I hope to see Native Plant Gardening get trendy here this growing season. With a new song - ...
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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 https://www.nwclimategath...
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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 over twenty years. She an...
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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 Gathering this month. Original mu...
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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 housing more than once,...
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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, Indigenous rights, public land...
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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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