Something Different This Way Comes

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 is good. Investing in the essentials, harvesting joy and security. By Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada   Script, score and more at www. Someth...

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-born tune. By Heather McLeod. Script, score and more at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca Referencing: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/made-of-honor/ Hu...

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; Costa Rica’s enduring systemic overhaul valuing education, nature and equality; Margaret Mead Citizen groups; the Paulo Friere two-step & honouring our Ca...

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 & business owners, with a what-more-to-do for us all. And a bit of the tell-it-like-it-is blues. By Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario Lyrics, chords, transcri...

Teacher Mother Lake Superior; restoring through community engagement and hands-on work; water clean-up successes since the 1980s; twenty Coastal sites in the City of Thunder Bay ready to restore; the shift from top-down to community-prompted financing of restoration projects;  learning from the wild feeds more than words can say. By Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Canada music, references and more...

Loving community revolutions, one bite at a time; the Saul Alinksy vs. Paulo Friere recap; perfect is not on the picklist; Wendy Smith’s paradoxical problem solving; Margaret Mead’s how to change the world; Henk Ovink’s rebuilding by design in Rotterdam & New York;  John Warner’s Beyond Benign & Green Chemistry; peer education in Thunder Bay is getting the homeless housed; basic needs met - connec...

The only way to get out of the mess we’re in: Take Back The Community; paxis and the Paulo Freire two-step of action & reflection; Saul Alinsky’s cut the issue then set specific, immediate & realizable actions; turn the Eeyores and Naysayers “on” buttons on; organizing can be for good or for evil; aiming for the four keys to happiness: connection, action, learning & giving; the power of autonomy i...

The dark side of Scarborough Fair; tightropes, paradox Venn diagrams & the power of non-binary thinking; how deep runs our bias & how best to undo it; persistence pays; Sleeping Giant and how raptors soar Details (including lyrics & chords to All Bring Our All) at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca by Heather McLeod Referencing: https://www.pictureascientist.com/ https://gather.film/ https://h...

Thunder Bay hybrid then electric car owner experience; personal carbon budgeting - get to net zero on your own terms; the sad tale of the Memorial Bike Lane proposal; the 4 scientifically proven keys to happiness; getting to our cleaner, kinder, safer future faster; the pleasures of leading by example   References, lyrics and more at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca   Produced, performed, re...

Sam is left speechless; Wealthy yet insecure; compounding punishing insufficiencies; today’s transformations - chosen or imposed; parables of plenty vs. poverty; the real tragedy of the commons; divest from fear - invest in faith   By Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario References detailed at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca You can count on me; you can count me in. You can make my day; l...

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; new song: Save the Mothers by Heather McLeod   References detailed, script & lyrics at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

Less Mowing, More Growing. Sami says: don’t think you are smarter than mother nature. Colonial trade, Colonial work, Colonial ruins and my family’s history settling the prairies. An inspiring tale of a Calgary home going all-solar. What Good Looks Like, at the ground level.   Sources referenced detailed at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

It’s really about people and the planet; Why go forth with pride, compassion and joy; How to help intergenerational, interdisciplinary, inclusive communities thrive; Celebrating the Thunder Bay trifecta; Slowing down & building our shared legacy; The normalization of land and water destruction is not okay Details and transcripts at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

Why imagine the change you want to see; How to build on the three pillars of sustainability: reciprocity, interconnection and gratitude; what goes deeper than emissions reduction; why everybody has to get involved; how this is not really a science problem; having children as an act of resistance; being in the hope camp; learning from the year of climate action; walking with truth towards reconcili...

Perspectives on how times change; what beauty makes; why reassure people; harking back to a pre-disposable economy;  how to get the creative juices flowing; how to become an expert without training; the more you learn, the more you love to learn; what’s worse than fearing strangers; what science conquered. Transcripts, references and more at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

Summer Stevenson Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Thunder Bay How the city works determines how we work in it; a million ton goal and 36 month count-down; engineering for unpredictable extremes; being Brene Brown about it; turtles live on this planet too; Thunder Bay can be a leader - we underestimate our power; the catch 22 of adaptation; seeing everything through a climate lens Referen...

Featuring Charla Robinson, Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce (plus Ben & Sam)  How local business is the life blood of a community & has a money-back guarantee; The failed experiment fix that will transform Thunder Bay; Why cooperate with your competitors; How the entrepreneurial spirit builds resilience, security, agency and better neighbourhoods; The most valuable returns on investment; Blindness...

Featuring Judith Monteith-Farrell; Tracey MacKinnon & Rob Barrett. Referencing Bren Smith & William McDonough Being the squeak; gather expertise and lift muzzles; there is a deficit of autonomy in our economy; draw down carbon by lifting up people; making our values the fulcrum; the change we want; three questions answered. References detailed and subscribe to the newsletter at www. SomethingDiffe...

Why food is the most important thing; What it takes to achieve food security in Thunder Bay; Why Thunder Bay is a misnomer; why stop complaining and make it happen ourselves; What blows Brendan’s mind in every teaspoon of living soil; How Thunder Bay farmers are adapting to the Climate Emergency; How cows can be heroes. References detailed & transcriptions at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

Featuring Erin Beagle of Roots to Harvest Let’s get to ‘yes’; changing our understanding of success; why driving a bus is better than going it alone; how climate change in Thunder Bay is like the trash compactor in Star Wars; giving people a place they can claim ownership within is powerful healing. But most of all: what would the Elders’ table say? Transcripts and references at www. SomethingDiff...

The movie that made Ben cry and sparked Heather's Climate Anxiety insomnia, then led to this podcast. The books that Heather thinks about most often. Ben & Sam's expectations for Thunder Bay. Find references, details and subscribe to the newsletter at www. SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca  

Something Different This Way Comes, launches Tuesday May 3 with new episodes weekly through June including conversations with Brendan Grant of Sleepy G Farm; Summer Stevenson, Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Thunder Bay, and Erin Beagle of Roots to Harvest. Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay building her reference library of hope.