Something Different This Way Comes

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.