The Season Finale features development lawyer Richard Wong with his thoughts after talking about engaging successfully with Corporations, and financing the big changes you want to see - at the Northwest Climate Gathering in Thunder Bay last mon

5.9 Biking Viking Ken Shields Travels Green

Dec 12th, 2023 51m 52s

Ken is the worker bee behind Just Bike TBay, the Memorial Link and Thunder Bay’s E.V. shows. And he was right at the heart of the Northwest Climate Gathering. We talk about the power of positivity and persistence, we celebrate being nerds and b

4.7 Northwest Climate Gathering tour by song

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 30m

A season wrap before the season’s done - and a teaser for the episodes to come. With many songs, and an insider’s tour of the Northwest Climate Gathering 2023: Hope & Action. Good company as COP28 unfolds.Referencing:https://www.katharineha

5.7 reprise Food Futures with Brendan Grant, organic farmer

Nov 28th, 2023 1h 3m

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.nwclima

4.6 Lucie Lavoie’s peace & plenty

Nov 21st, 2023 49m 54s

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

4.5 Keira Essex Relates

Nov 14th, 2023 44m 34s

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. Origi

4.4 Kevin Brooks Sparks Community Action

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 7m

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 onc

4.4 Kevin Brooks Sparks Community Action

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 19m

4.1 Shy-Anne Hovorka Connects

Nov 6th, 2023 1h

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

4.3 Dave Spies Protects Our Winter

Oct 31st, 2023 47m 15s

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, publi

4.2 Hope & Action Gathered In

Oct 24th, 2023 44m 8s

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. Lyrics & more at www.SomethingDifferentThisW

4.1 Shy-Anne Hovorka Connects - season 4 launch

Oct 17th, 2023 1h

Songs for Courage & Clarity - seasons 2&3, music only

Aug 5th, 2023 1h 16m

Just the songs composed and recorded for seasons two and three. No words, no theme, just the songs. Raw, unpolished and recorded the day they were composed. All but one by Heather McLeod - that one co-composed and co-performed with Shy-Anne Hov

3a Gathering: Framework & curing anxiety

Jul 6th, 2023 1h 38m

Two dozen gather to toast the podcast so far and seed the coming seasons envisioning what change they most want to see happen. With a detour to explore humbleness and hard conversations, cows as a cure, smoke as a trigger, and the power of fram

3.8 Songs of the Kindness Economy

May 23rd, 2023 48m 44s

Summarizing Season three's seven episodes imagining the Kindness Economy with the songs each episode inspired, and a bit about how the rant or conversation fed the composition. By Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Season Four plan

3.7 Breath with Curniss McGoldrick

May 16th, 2023 1h 11m

City as home, where you can breath, slow down, connect, relax. The importance of difficult conversations. Many hands make for light work. Budget to support your priorities. Choices must be made. Set boundaries, speak up. Lyrics and more at www

3.6 Judi Vinni Digs In

May 9th, 2023 1h 7m

Conversation with Judi Vinni of https://willowspringscreativecentre.ca/ Care of our Elders; mixed ages & hands-on learning; therapeutic gardening; needs-inclusive employment; trust and relationships; Lappe Nordic Ski Centre collaborating with s

3.5 Kindness. Economy. Good & Messy

May 4th, 2023 53m 4s

Considering the psychology of change - honour vs. dignity cultures, the kindness paradox; how to unlock capital, human and $: universal basic income, justice systems, no skin in the game loans & truly supporting micro-businesses, multigeneratio

3.5 Good and Messy: Kindness. Economy.

May 2nd, 2023 39s

Considering the psychology of change - honour vs. dignity cultures & the kindness paradox; then contemplating unlocking capital, human and $: universal basic income, justice systems, no skin in the game loans & administratively supporting entre

3.4 Thora Cartlidge - green growing city

Apr 25th, 2023 1h 6m

Stewarding the land, honouring our ecosystems: imagine, intercept, invest, integrate, innovate, infrastructure. Conversation with city planner Thora Cartlidge. Revitalize the East End - the opportunity and economy of investing in historic neigh

3.3 Drawing Circles with Cindy Crowe

Apr 18th, 2023 1h 13m

Cindy Crowe of Blue Sky Community Healing Centre & Cindy Crowe Consulting with a conversation for those who feel overwhelmed and just want something do-able; protecting and witnessing the wild; the healing power of kindness, of circles, and of

3.2 Eating Well - three courses to plenty

Apr 11th, 2023 1h

Imagining the three courses serving plenty of food in the kindness economy: grown, kept and shared. Inspired by The Parachute Club’s Rise Up! Feeding and healing ourselves and our home; many hands make light work; and good work in good company

3.1Imagining the Stories We Tell in the Kindness Economy

Apr 4th, 2023 42m 12s

Imagining story-telling industries, mechanics and touch stones in the Kindness Economy. With a scientifically-sound genesis story to start, some classic Joni Mitchell, a reboot of marketing, journalism, academia and accountability, plus a new-b

2.10 Season Two Finale - Summary in Song

Dec 6th, 2022 1h 4m

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 relationships to the wild

2.9 Do What You Can Do - solar power, heat pumps & wind

Nov 29th, 2022 1h 7m

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-to for home & busine