Something Different This Way Comes

2.4 The Places You’ll Go - featuring Paul Berger

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, recorded, composed and financed by Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada

2.3 Count me In - Capital Income

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; let me have a say; When the chips are down, know I'll be around: happy to lend a hand, to build a better land. Better because everyone is valued, heard, sheltered, cared for and fed

2.2 Save the Mothers and Methane counterspun

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

2.1 Ground Level Lessons - season launch

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

1.9 Being Ancestors - season finale with Betty Carpick plus Ben & Sam

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

1.8 Getting to Know Home - with Ledah McKellar

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 reconciliation
Details & references at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

1.7 Times Change- with Muriel Squires (+ Sam, Ben & Arno)

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

1.6 Greening City with Summer Stevenson

Summer StevensonSustainability 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
References detailed and transcripts at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

1.5 The People in your Neighbourhood - with Charla Robinson, buy local

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 and sight.
References & transcriptions at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca

1.4 The Pen is Mightier - Provincial Election thoughts

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.
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