Something Different This Way Comes

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/
 

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

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 Hovorka for a yet-to-be published episode.
Find Lyrics, chords and context at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

3a Gathering: Framework & curing anxiety

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 frames. By Heather McLeod
Transcript, full list of references & more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
 
References include:
How are Indigenous youth thinking about reconciliation? Ft. Riley Yesno – Matriarch Movement
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/11/it-felt-like-a-funeral-william-shatner-reflects-on-voyage-to-space#:~:text=I%20love%20all%20the%20questions,was%20death%2C%E2%80%9D%20Shatner%20wrote.
https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/speaking-to-a-psychologist-about-drug-laws-in-ireland
https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it?language=en https://zerocarbon-analytics.org/archives/economics/international-financial-institutions-reform-bridgetown-agenda
https://omny.fm/shows/zero/jigar-shah-lpo-department-of-energy-zero
The cow cure for anxiety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5IX-np5fE

3.8 Songs of the Kindness Economy

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 planned for October & November 2023 with one or two specials to watch for in the meantime.

3.7 Breath with Curniss McGoldrick

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.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca By Heather McLeod
Referencing:
https://icleicanada.org/#:~:text=Canadian%20ICLEI%20members%20are%20part,equitable%2C%20resilient%20and%20circular%20development.https://www.strongtowns.org/http://www.urbanabbey.ca/the-habit-coffee-and-bakeshophttps://www.thunderbay.ca/en/city-hall/resources/Documents/EarthCare/Thunder-Bay_Net-Zero-Strategy_WEB-VERSION_Accessible.pdfhttps://lakeheadca.com/watershed/climate-change/climate
 

3.6 Judi Vinni Digs In

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 social & community circles; embracing immigration; community gardens & multicultural feasting. By Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario
Lyrics, references and more at: www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

3.5 Kindness. Economy. Good & Messy

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, multigenerational planned densification, raising corporate expectations; Ireland’s Citizen’s Assemblies; Youth Climate Action Corp. By Heather McLeod. References, lyrics and more at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca