Something Different This Way Comes

2.8 Caterpillar Fears & Lake Superior Love featuring Rob Stewart

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 at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
 

2.7 Love Love Hive Mind - bite size revolutions

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 - connection & inclusion - every student graduates; Ceres Community Project’s food is medicine; block parties and Sunday School.
Transcript and references detailed at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca as well as words & lyrics to Love Love Hive Mind by Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario
Referencing:
https://www.uwaytbay.ca/community-impact/impact-stories/your-donations-in-action/ https://www.uwaytbay.ca/community-impact/ https://www.rebuildbydesign.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6LP6Y2zkD8 https://www.ceresproject.org/ https://solidarityeconomics.org/se-book/ https://www.johnwarner.org/ https://www.rebuildbydesign.org/news-and-events/updates/too-big-rebuild-by-design-a-transformative-approach-to-climate-change/ https://www.resilienceshift.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CWRA_CCR_Rotterdam.pdf
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/chemicals-within-us

2.6 The Paulo Friere Two Step featuring Dr. Fay Martin

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 in community leadership & followership
song lyrics & chords, transcript and references at www.SomethingDifferentThisWayComes.ca
by Heather McLeod in Thunder Bay, Ontario

2.5 All Bring Our All - non-binary thinking

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://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/thriving-in-the-face-of-contradiction/
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/iatdetails.html
https://thischangeseverything.org/the-documentary/

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