Something Different This Way Comes

5.10 The Money is Knocking, open the door with Richard Wong

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 month. The new song that conversation inspired is called: It’s Time To Dance. Lyrics and more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
 
Referencing:
www.NWClimateGathering.ca
https://davidsuzuki.org/press/indigenous-organizations-launch-just-transition-guide-as-counterpart-to-canadas-sustainable-jobs-act-and-net-zero-plan/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film)
https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/community-energy-and-emissions-plan.aspx
Net Zero Strategy Thunder Bay 2020

5.9 Biking Viking Ken Shields Travels Green

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 building community with fellow kind and courageous nerds. Ken explains why his volunteering and problem-solving is totally worth it. Song & podcast by Heather McLeod. Lyrics & more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

4.7 Northwest Climate Gathering tour by song

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.katharinehayhoe.com/
www.NWClimateGathering.ca
Lyrics & more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

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.nwclimategathering.ca/ November 25 & 26 2024.
Referencing http://www.sleepygfarm.ca/

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 and her partner Ken Deacon have been trying to minimize their impact on the planet for decades, including growing and keeping much of the food they eat. Lyrics and more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
Referencing https://www.nwclimategathering.ca/

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 music by Heather McLeod. Lyrics and more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

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, but what stuck with me most was his soliloquy on composting as a metaphor for life. Lyrics & more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
 
Referencing:
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper 
“The pleasures & challenges of degrowth: a conversation with Kate Soper” by Ben Highmore, Mandy Merck and Jenny Bourne Taylor in Project Muse Vol 107-108 2022 pp.215-229
https://www.deanspade.net
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-193-fresh-air/clip/16020848-with-rising-food-housing-costs-plus-approaching-winter
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-newsletter-right-to-repair-styrofoam-1.5037697
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-ca/knowledge/publications/11c47b23/right-to-repair-bill-passes-unanimously-at-house-of-commons#:~:text=The%20bill%20was%20unanimously%20adopted,by%20encouraging%20longer%20device%20lifecycles.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429/clip/16019140
 

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

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 lands defense and international law. He will be coming to the Northwest Climate Gathering 2023: Hope & Action.
Lyrics & more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
Referencing:
https://www.protectourwinters.ca/david_spies
https://www.nwclimategathering.ca/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/a-journey-from-homelessness-to-a-room-of-ones-own

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. Lyrics & more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
Referencing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realists
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/you-2-0-make-the-good-times-last/
https://www.youthclimatelab.org/fxc-blog/2020/3/26/community-activator-series-madison-van-dyck
https://thewilldowntown.com/in-conversation-with-bekeme-masade-olowola/