#Waterfowl : Recent Episodes
Sarah Fowler
Listen to some of the first few episodes... https://www.spreaker.com/show/4540252
The green Antler's waterfowl podcast is many things. Many things to many people. What started as a way to document my journey, learning what us required by the small community representative on #UBCM executive. Thanks for your time and attention. We sometimes have guest's, read poems or bits from books we like, go over policy choices, ask questions and sometimes just listen for the call of the trumpeter swans.
Green Antler's waterfowl podcast listeners are able to enjoy a tasty food hub discussion with the Strathcona region 😋 yummy! Next up on the menu is 😀 minister "speed dating" meetings at the #UBCM annual September convention. #bcpoli #munipoli #foodpoli☀️ watch for a "writ" drop and shuffle. Order up.
🚧Telecommunications policy 🚏and beavers 🦫chewing on Fibre. 🕸 building redundancy into the 🦧robust system plan 🐈⬛ and the business case for🦮 an even 🦼blanket of 🐩service area, especially for🚔 emergency personnel. 😑 and who's 🤑job is it to🦽 put up 🛣a sign 🚑telling the tourists 🚚what service level to expect🚒 and for how far. 🛟
I am learning not to react. 🌚But like everything, it takes practice. 🌬I appreciate this perspective from the global south. 🧭
🗺Coastal marine strategy 🗳and a little something extra 🎬at the end,⛩️ that span the gap 🌏from awe to grief. 📸It was a privilege 🧁to be involved in this 🪰cohort of 🙌community energy associations🚏 BC Climate Leaders 🎊coaching.
This🚙 morning started, 🚏like any other,🛺 opening the 🎪door so the 🐕 dog could go out.🛹 After the 🥣breakfast, boxed🍏 lunch and snack prep,🍎 teeth and hair nag🦄 that usually happens🦧 I drove the kids to school. Then, 🛣I had a Tamarack Institute🛤 cohort, climate caucus, and school board 🛸zoom 🚀and the Thursday 🪂session of AccessAbility week with🛑 habitat landscape systems. 🚦You can hear it all in this bonus 🧳episode of the waterfowl podcast 🛰produced here in beautiful🚤 Tahsis at the 🫑Green Antler🥦 Studio. 🎙
Designing with sensory needs in mind. This waterfowl podcast💧 Fowler report 👌 features Ingrid and talks about 👅 tongue action, impulse control, emotional adjustments, sensory processing disorder, disgraphia, verbal or not. Thinking really hard, connecting letters, making sou ds they want to make, self concept, danger, play🛝 & shine. Orientation, maps 🗺open dyslexia font, deaf & autistic, seeing themselves, public 🚇 transport, co- regulation, coach, model, gravity bound, loose fill, seamless transition 😀 the feel of water 🏞propriceptive, latersl movements, cross midline😎 fish on fence🐸streams of dreams, family 🚻 bathrooms and how 40% of autistic are non- verbal. 🦙
Is 12 years 😳 on the board enough? 🤔 what is gained from traditional, measured and conservative governance structures? Is 🏝cronyism something😍 you loose sleep over? When it comes to 😩banking? Is democracy about member engagement ☺️or popular👀 opinion as the pendulum shifts between safety in tried💔 and true methods or 💡innovative ideas? What exactly is the right balance😏 between trends, currents, style, best practices and experience? 😉
Creating 🏰connections🌏 is a workshop 🏘taking place December 1st🏚 thanks to the 🤶folks at 👩💻cooperatives first 👨💻for the second half. 🎅 lots of 😎valuable 🍔information in 🍳the case studies. 🥨
The green antler waterfowl podcast episode was recorded at the seniors' society on May 26, 2023.
CEA. That is all you need to know... big moves, ⛽️ fuel switching. personal reasons. Octopus Creek 🔥 fire is professional motivation. Community emissions and deep retrofits that can meet target.
UBCM staff and executives have been working on this file and their expertise shows. The Summit was informative and a great chance to hear what effects the new legislation is having in different places across the province.
Also, a🫠 link was made between deaths during the heat dome and other🏨 illnesses. Thanks to the presenters for this information. 👌 where do you want to go to seek the⛺️ shade or breeze. ⛲️
So many good talks, like always. My🤠 hats off to the Sauder school. 💮 any long time listening 🎶 folks to the green 🫎antler's waterfowl podcast know that I attend and get audio 🪹recordings of these 🪰discussions any chance I get.
Thanks to Maya, Manda, Elizabeth Doug, CaroleAnne, Anne, Trina, and Bob Deeks for this valuable discussion. 😀 From well vented, air-tight, smokey sanctuaries 🌏to zoning for zero, 🛑we are making affordable 🏚home comfort a priority 🫠and reducing barriers to 🪂quality of life. Standards, 🚦step codes, retrofits, and 🏡new standards in the ⛲️regulatory space 🛸intergrated with tiers🏗 and timelines⚓️ our municipalities will be 🌡approving higher☄️ performance green 👷♀️ buildings. With this peer 🛖network, 🗽we see how market 🌈transformation really is a team sport. At the end, 🏕there I go on for a bit of a rip🏜 with Judy and Alex of climate🌦 caucus, who over the virtual years have become friends 🛟on this journey. 🚢relationships are assets🏟 and trust is built. 🧭 thanks for listening 🎶this is a green 🐜 antler production!🙏
From🤖 cityviz, Sasha Boganovic shares a presentation 💝with BCEDA. This 🏛podcast episode was recorded on May 9th at the 🏕Green Antler.🙏 let me know if you would like to learn more about the CityViz economic development data portal and how communities across Canada add it to their municipal or investment attraction websites. Some of the features include:- Community Profile- Economic Indicators dashboard (customizable)- Report Builder (custom PDF, Word and PowerPoint reports for grant applications, council presentations, and more)- Site Selection / Market Research tool (map with demographic and industry layers, customizable)- Detailed analysis of population growth and components of change, labour force survey, and many more…🗺Organization: British Columbia Economic Development AssociationEvent Name: Webinar: The Community Information Tool (CIT)Description: The Community Information Tool (CIT) is a central access point for data to help planners, policy makers, economic developers, researchers, and academics thrive in the digital economy. The CIT compiles over 40 data sets offering insights into regions across B.C. with integrated socio-economic, connectivity, and community assets data. The CIT assists users to better understand multiple factors that are happening within a community and region to support analytical and forecasting work, offering easy access to data-driven insights for communities in B.C.In this session, you will learn how to use the CIT as a comparative tool to see how one community is similar or different from another, search attributes of a community using your own criteria, and view a culmination of different data produced at the community level🏞Organization: British Columbia Economic Development AssociationEvent Name: Webinar: The Community Investment Opportunities Tool (CIOT)Description: The Community Investment Opportunities Tool (CIOT) is an online provincial site-selection tool that connects investors with industrial, commercial, and agricultural land in B.C. that is available for investment. Promoters can upload available investment opportunities to promote the very best industrial, commercial, and agricultural land in the community. The tool automatically supplements potential investment lands with key location information. Investors can search for available investment opportunities to find the ideal location for their business in the province.In this session, you will learn how to use the CIOT to work with communities in promoting investment opportunities, and to facilitate engagement with investors who may be interested in the province.🌋
🥗In this recording 🧗♂️of the green🍡 antler's waterfowl podcast 🍻we jump between🍽 the Tamarack Institute cohort and the 🔪climate caucus elected 📞 call. I missed the first half of the latter, 😔 which is the teaching🗺 part generally,🧑🦯 but made 🏜it for the discussion where someone 🌈mentioned the🏭 balcony and the🕺 dance💃 floor. Thanks for that friend. This recording happened on 🧨may 4 2023. 🧗♀️ Also, thanks to🤩 Jan for this🌾 amazing mocha 🍩pictured and for bringing such💐 tasty #tahsistalent 🌵to the makers 🌿of the village.
What parts of paying taxes,🎈 receiving services, ✨️and engaging the next people to 🎉carry forward history, legacy, 🏆process, and rule of law? 🗽My favourite quote🥏 from the day of democratic 🎯discussion & debate was "a hot bed of cold feet."⛳️ Thanks to Max Cameron, 🎣Gordon Hogg, and🛷 Jen Ford of UBCM for 🎿inviting me to participate in 🎱this interesting🔮 session. 😀 This 🥍episode of the waterfowl 🏸podcast 🏒was recorded in the🎾 green antler🏑 on April 30, 2023. 🏏
🌍This presentation was recorded from the green 🗺antler's waterfowl podcast desk and feature🧭 Will Cole - Hamilton of⌚️ Courtenay. It is a climate🌃 caucus BC Chapter🌄 meeting from April 28, chaired by Kate Marsh. 🐈⬛
Here at the waterfowl podcast, we talk a lot about 💧 water. Special thanks to the ones organizing the webinar engagement session and especially🦆 Dag from Islands trust for sharing the conservation strategies employed in that area. 😀
🏝The ones who work in 🏞the garden have full 🗽decision-making authority🥬 of who, 🍓how, and 🫛when harvesting is 🍒done. Understanding, exploring, deciding. 🥨Dynamics, alternatives, integrate. 🐏Shorten the term. What can🐒 or is endanger ✌️ peace? 🦮How do we measure concern? 🪽Is there a 🍴 fork in the path? 🪺 This episode🐾 of the green antler's 🪷waterfowl podcast 🐉was recorded in 🐆Tahsis on April 25, 2023, and 🐛features Ted Rau. 🦋
⛳️Advocacy🎈 days UBCM 2023🥅 PREPARATORY 🥍morning recording🎯 on April 19. 🎨Green antler 🎣waterfowl 🤿podcast 🏆visits Beautiful🎁 Victoria British 🖼Columbia 😍
Co-creating 🧐and 🥳encouraging 🤖new 👻voices❤️🔥 to 🤏speak🫦 up.👅 👂listen to🏀 DNS ♟️firewall.👌 learning 🍓from others,🌏 especially people 🏥who might🎟 bring new perspectives. 🔮
🤩Recorded ❤️🔥April 16t at🛼 Vancouver Island⚓️ conference center🛟 in Nanaimo, 🚦the last day 🚲of the 2023 AVICC. 🦼
With🥗 Chris Schultz Lorentzen 🫖talking directly🍽 about students' food🥞 affordability fund.🥣
Hoping🌏 to start as a🧭 lunch room🪂 supervisor at captain🚢 meres next🛶 week. 🤞 wish me luck 🛟at my new job. 🙏
Webinar:🩴 Emerging 🦭research📑 in the Water 🔎sector /🐳 Webinaire: 🩱Recherche 🎬émergente dans ⛱️le secteur de 🌂l'eau🐠 this has ☎️been brought to you☔️ by the 🪼production 🕯team ☄️at the 🐸green 💡antler's 💧studio in 🌊tahsis.
Another amazing offering from our peers in the Climate Caucus, recorded at the green antler's waterfowl podcast desk in Tahsis.
What is 🪤the vacancy 🗝rate where you live? 🤔 are you able to🪧 find a rental🛁 in your preferred 🔑neighborhood? 🧮 the webinar 🥽was recorded 🦺at the green 🥼antler and👔 presented by the🎛 coastal communities 🥁credit union. 🏷
Over my 5 🏪years in public 🏚office, so far, I have 🎪been fulsome with my efforts🚲. In the beginning, 🚜I had a new motion🚨 to bring forward 🦽every week, intending ⛽️to use the built 💪 up capacity the village had to address growing 🛟social problems. I learned within⚓️ the first year that 😌 it was not 🛞going to work. There wasn't the 🚦political appetite 🙄 for taking on more 🪂responsibility and increasing 🛸service levels. The first municipal🛣 budget we passed, 🕰when I was new 🪐to council, had us use the🌦 entire $300K we ☂️got from selling the parking lot for a coast guard to keep❄️ taxes as low as possible. If i ⛱️knew, then ☃️what i know now.☄️ This helped me 🌓shift my jurisdictional 🌊priorities. I sat on the nootka 🔥sound watershed 🚆board and was 🚇learning about the main branch 🎡of our local 🗽economy. Salmon🪼 hatcheries and the sport 🐟 fishery. It was 🦄because of a🦮 training I got🦣 from that🫎 board affiliation🦥 that I can 🐔identify, using a hand 🐾lens which 🦆species of sealice 🐋is on a salmon🦐 fry. I could 🌵only attend 🪺because 🐙of my personal 🕸investment 🦞and sacrifices. I 🦀would make 🦑double barreled business trips to safe on travel costs. Or else I would pay out 🦈of pocket🐡 to attend, thus 🐠artificially 🦭increasing the 🪽capacity of the village 🦕of tahsis on my own back. 🦚In that first term, I 🦎paid my own way to the🐢 decoda literacy society 🦩forum in Richmond, 🪶where I was 🐦presenting about 🦢bold action 🕊in art and politics, 🐓but mostly fielded 🦨questions about my feelings as a 🦦women leader. Then the pandemic🐽 happened, changing everything, all at once. 🦃We stayed home 🏘to keep others safe from something ⛲️we could see. We🏨 tried to home school.🦍 We adapted to working 🐅online from home. Some farred better than🦓 others. Our 🐪skills were🦏 tested and our 🐐time was further spent🐑 on ways to be more creative problem 🐗solvers. Once the world 🌎 opened back up, more 🍇growing pains surfaced. 😢 I could do twice to 🫛three times the work virtually 🍿that I could do before without a single travel 🍳expense. But I still found 🥣value to try to go back to in 🫠person attendance, so I 🤷 paid my way🤐 to the globe 🎆series and the 🎈climate leaders🤑 institute. It was often only 🫣possible by 🥈double barreling⚽️ my trips, piggybacking 🐖on paid ones down island. 🐒 in this new term💝 I am no longer naive to🤏 believe I alone, working at 150% 🫶capacity can change 🤩anything. So I set🎒 my goals and 🧤endorse people I believe in.🕶 I open 👔myself to learn 🪭from everyone, ⛑️good, bad,🪖 ugly 📯and truly🎩 weird. I prioritize 🥽my own wellbeing 🥼now. Which 🩰feels strange 🥾and new. My 🥅goals for this term of 🥊office 2023-26 are. 1. Care 🩴for myself. 2. teach 👙my children👑 well. 3. Attend to 👗the needs of 🎶my community🧣 members, as🚮 many as possible, especially 🛐with respect 🙏 to food & transit. ♻️4. ADVOCATE for 🚸small towns 🔄and economic 🛅development⚜️ thru 🚼housing initiatives. 5. Keep learning, 🔱growing recruiting, 🚰and retaining #tahsistalent as ⚠️much as I can. Thanks 🆓️for listening to the 🆕️green antler's waterfowl podcast 🙌 and welcome to✔️ season 4.
Ancient times ⚽️and philosophy 🥌can help us 🎣cope with 😩 stress, improving 🥍our emotional 🪀well-being 😢 and face adversity🥇 with 🪩confidence. 🥏The green🎿 antler's waterfowl🥅 podcast is recorded by🪆 your host Sarah🎳 Fowler on March 🪬11 in ♥️Tahsis and🎫 had 129🎽 participants🧩 in the 🛷webinar. "How Can We Save ♟️ Rational 🎁Discourse: Philosophy & Politics."🧸 For details, go here:🪅https://stoicism-and-politics.eventbrite.ca⚾️To🥎 access 🏀the online 🏐event page, go here:🪄https://www.eventbrite.com/x/how-can-we-save-rational-discourse-philosophy-politics-tickets-480310861717🕹
Recorded ✈️April 14th in⏳️ the Shaw auditorium 🧳at the AVICC, 🛎featuring 🛸Vanessa Craig, Tyler🪂 Brown, 🚀John Jack & Don Lidstone. 🛑this episode was originally🎳 scheduled for🤿 December 8th but was asked specifically for by🪬 Mayor Julie Colborne of Zeballos, so🎿 I bumped it up.🕹
Knowledge network SharePoint site is a great resource for remote places working towards improvements 🤯of internet speeds and cellular service. By advocating for basic services to reach the last household in addition to making investments in communities communication needs. The technical aspects of this project makes it difficult for me, but using a economy development lens with a small community intersection, I see the potential. 😀
Conference objectives. 🧜♂️Inform. To provide information on OPP 2.0 and new or renewed OPP initiatives to establish a foundation 🤔 of knowledge and understanding 🧜♀️among participants 🧞♀️for awareness and to support follow up engagement on specific subjects. 😀 involved and consult. 💦to gather input on 🧞♂️specific OPP initiatives, where timely and appropriate. Coordinate: 😨to promote relationship building and networking 🧞to facilitate 🗨coordination and collaboration on maritime🧜 transportation and ocean protection initiatives. 😭
Nanaimo's 😘Vancouver Island conference centre 👌 way to place this green antler 🤒#waterfowl podcast episode was recorded on Friday February 15, 2023.🤩congrats to the AVICC region for having the 😇highest enrolment to these important learning sessions. 😀
Land-based healing and stewardship. Check ✔️ out his 📖 that has just been published. I especially 👍 like it when he says, " I am a good person" because I guess I need that reminder. 😊 thanks to Laura from Tamarack for the invite.
Before 🤒I became🤢 an elected resident of tahsis, I needed seasonal😵💫 food aid. When I was a 🌳 treeplanter, server, or😴 lifeguard, my income had 😶🌫️seasons, and I received pantry staples and caned 🥶goods from the community cupboard. This helped my family get 🤤through lean times. 🙏 I have so much respect 🥳going out to everyone who 💪 works or 🙋♂️volunteers 🙋♀️ in food production and distribution. My hopes for including this proposed🥸 slate for 2023 board 😍of directors in the 💧 waterfowl podcast here from the 🫶green antler🫣 are to excite, 🫡connect, and 👏praise the advancement of healthy and sustainable 👍food🫠 systems. Thanks to Juliette Chochard for allowing 😇me to listen in 🤫and for being a wonderful communications 🤩assistant. 🤝
Being your own boss 🛟and working from 🏡 home to offer your talent to the larger economy. Do you buy 🚤things of line and have them delivered to you mail 📤 box.
Join Angel Kennedy, Cheyenne Williams and Aldyn Chwelos. This panel of emerging researchers and young professionals will discuss their work on topics related to freshwater management and governance. We will explore the importance of youth in watershed health discussions, the development of fresh water guardian programs, and western red cedar ecosystems. As the climate changes and the community built around it through the shared stories of disaster survivors who have experienced heat waves, wildfires, flooding, or intense storms.
Although it is a bit 😳 embarrassing to be a team🌏 of one, I am still 🎖 honoured to be able 🧭to take part in this🚜 important role. 🙏 appreciate this opportunity ⏳️to learn what is 🎡working 💪 in other places. 🌈 for multi🧱 solving to silo🏗 bridging, we are building ⚓️equity and making 🦽more resilient🪂 communities. 🛸
More from Joel Solomon and his 👋 clean 🚃money revolution book🎠 about 🛝reinventing 🔋 power, purpose and 🎡capitalism.
Recent economic investments throughout the vast kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis territory including the Gwa- yas-dums restoration of a 100 year old big 🏠 house.
A 3 day summit with many academics, community service providers, and policy makers to bring connections into health care opportunities, equity, strengths and weakness. Human doing & being. Workforce sustainability. Rural and remote are used to doing more with less. Scopes of practice and the overburden burnout of training recruits in an era of staff shortages. Communities of practice. Leveraging partnerships, team based patient care. Change fatigue. Culture shift and student communication 👌 health systems, shared vision, amplify best practices or identifying red flags. Rural life sure is something. The costs and benefits of living remote
20🍜 slides, 🎂20 seconds each.🫖 Amazing 🍻Edmonton and🍯 ward councillors 🍩doing great work. 🍽Really🫘 loved the🫛 food library.🥨
Clean money revolution by Joel Solomon. Reinventing 😁power, purpose, and capitalism. In today's episode, I read 📚 pages from an 💰interesting story that stretches🪐 from the south to the west. Appreciate the ideas presented here and the support received on this journey of contributing my unique gifts to our shared goals. 😀
Join us🦽 for an information🛣 session on CIRA DNS 🔥 firewall, a cyber ⚓️security tool that is being offered🛶 to MIABC members 🛟on a trial basis until ⏳️the end of March 2023. 🚲The CIRA DNS 🚦firewall protects🌡 hundreds of Canadian 🛹organizations, including 🌇municipalities 🛼across Canada, which🛑 automatically 🚧blocks 🌐cyber attacks that 🛎can lead to the loss of money 🕰and time. ⏲️ The MIABC and CIRA have teamed up to offer a 3 🕠month trail of the 🛸DNS firewall. 😢 Alexandra Daly, territory🪂 account manager🚨 for CIRA⚡️ will cover. 🧭1. What the 🌤CIRA DNS firewall is? 🧱2. How it protects Canadian organizations? 🏦3. information on how it is being offered to MIABC members. ❄️
This episode🌟 features some 🥜stories 😭with local 🪐tahsis folks about food, climate, and environmental 🌦health as it relates🌞 to remote 💰village 🕤cost impacts. The guided conversations project was led by the BCCDC and😁 researchers' availability, affordability, and impacts 🙏of climate change😍 on food.
Incentives for⛽️ housing. Equity versus debt. Debt is cheaper than🚖 equity. Front end ⛵️load capital from conventional 🚚lenders. Land loans are expensive. Return on investment 👌 steady increase🛟 of benchmarks, raising rates to control inflation. 4.5% bank of Canada 🇨🇦, 15-20 basis points. Bond yield going up 2.9% from the basement on October 2020. 🛖Condos versus⚓️ affordable rentals, intrinsic land value. Gentle⏳️ density and development costs. The Ontario experience of🌆 zoning. Money is mobile. ESG's and assets like passive 🏡 homes. We learn 🏛as we go. The cost of balconies, insuite🎪 storage, parkades. Minimum size versus livability. Not a single unit for sale in Gold🏕 River. Temporary🚦 modular land lease. House rich and cash poor. 💸 reasonable urban lot, long term sanitary 🌋sewer infrastructure & pressure. 🏝big 🌳 trees and outdoor lifestyle. 🌲
🐻MORE BEARS THAN🦧 CARS. tourism leisure, woefully 🦮underserved. Seaside 🐫holidays. Passage control, 🪱people with 📋 clipboards. Goes in doesn't conduct out we know where to look. 🍀Trespass is a civil 🪻offense. Obscure reasons.🍁 Unnesicarry barriers. Mosaic private forestry and 🌿tree farm license as the 👑 crown 🎣land holders. Scots struggle with reading 📚 maps. Learning 🎈experiences. Getting lost and ♟️found again. 🎯Tree blow down, west 🤹road blocks. Scramble routes that end in🚣 landslides, but not the political kind. Together, it's a 🧗♀️voyage of discovery. 🧞♀️This year's routes are north of hwy 19, into the back 🦸♀️country. Nowhere thru and round🫃 potholes. Acknowledges🧚♂️ the consequences of large scale 🦴logging. Calculate 👉 points, award prizes, regularity rally, teams🫀 of timekeepers, sitting around for hours😎 getting bored. 🫏 donkeys years ago. App store, check directions, 🔥test events, GPS pins, ⏳️richta, Gaia in your pocket, garmen inreach, zeolo, spot walla.🌠 Potential solutions, paid subscriptions, 🌡downloaded mapping, 🛸well out of range, detect where you are, long press, 🛟text SOS. The c- words cheat ⚓️but we can call it techno-doping! Involvement in a 🏪rescue, wife at home 🏡 recieving calls from Texas, now she knows why I am 🍽late for dinner. 🏟Security services turned on, transcontinental 🏍 bird & running 🏁 races. Progress tracking. 🏤Businesses to spend 💰 money at, retail, 🍸 alcohol, ICBC insurance, road legal ride ons. 🐲ECONOMY needs to diversify, 🦕ordinary people, low costs, high speed, 🕸Fibre optic, seaside holiday 🧭second hand smart 📱 phones, open up, continued development, 🏕everybody's in camp, sights & sounds. 🕷Grand benevolent intentions. Woss -🐞shot in the dark. Gold river's 🌲Ridge. The junction? Quickly intergrated, Harry wool shirt 👕 tree🌳 huggers, like🪸 minded motorsports. Enabled in Canada 🇨🇦 and the pacific northwest. Mass Civil unrest, 🪽landed gentry,🐛 right to roam, public road networks & micro resorts. This 🐍green antler's waterfowl 🪶podcast episode was recorded on May 26 and features Jonathan Binnington. See you on the 👣 trails.
Recorded 🎭at the green 🖼antler on ⛵November 24, 2022💈pushing for🛴 ambitious 🛑climate action🛤 at the municipal level. In⚓ CANADA, 🚦municipalities account for 50% of the national🛣 greenhouse gas emissions. 🚪This underlines the undeniable need for local climate⛴ action. When🛸 individuals and community groups push 🚀for climate action at the 🛰municipal level. This can 🛁catalyze meaningful 🛋changes in communities- and 🚟community groups across🕟 Canada are continuously demonstrating🏯 this! Are you interested 🌅in knowing how to get involved in local 🗽climate action? How others have💒 advanced climate 🌠action at their 🌬municipal level? How to build⛈ meaningful relationships with 🌡elected officials? This webinar 🌙will provide guidance ☃️care studies ☄and tips. Also dont forget to check 🌊out the infliltartion☔ manual for take 🌈away ❄resources and templates. 🏚Facillitor: Cameron Esler ⛲David Suzuki Foundation. Panelist:🌁 Councillor Shannon Zachidniak, 🌃City of Regina.🏕 Veronica Bylicki 🏙Cityhive. Tara Day, community🏘 climate hub 🌍initiative. Siobhan Takala, youth🏝 climate Lab.
Terms of 🥅reference cover 🎉BC #rural🍍 and remote🥇 connectivity, the need for 🍽bridging 🎂the digital 🕹divide made 🃏all the more pronounced🥠 🎲 by the covid19🎈 pandemic. Internet access has🎑 become basic and🎃 essential infrastructure🎁 like clean water, well maintained roads and 🥌access to electricity that🤺 requires an 🤹♀️informed and coordinated🏊♂️ approach. However, 🚵♂️communities regions🏌️♀️ and governments ( 🥊municipal, indigenous, regional) are 🎿working 🎱independently, 🎯often in🛷 isolation, to access needs, 🏏set priorities, identify ⚛solutions and ☸secure investment in 🚰connectivity infrastructure 🔜and the🔃 parallel activities🖲 required to unlock🛅 its potential to 🔬improve life. Peer 🎚to peer 🎧knowledge🎼 sharing, mentoring, ⚠️relationship🎸 building🔭 and collaboration 🚸lead 📡to capacity♿ building.
Thanks 🚰to you ⚓both for doing 🚿the local🚾 government thing 🏕with a side of 🏗podcasting. I🛶 appreciate 🚱your thoughtful questions,🖼 interest in small⚠️ communities and ☑sharing your time. 🌄#bcpoli
Having spent so 🐗much time fundraising 🐏for different causes.🐆 This episode of 🦊the #waterfowl podcast 🦍has been recorded 🐩at the green antler 🦌on Nov 7 2022. I tend to focus on asking 🎯seasonally. Once 🐤upon a time I had a union 🦇and did fill time 🐿for Greenpeace. 🐘Or before that when 🦖I worked at a 🕊third party consultancy for 🐡many different🐠 charities. Nowadays 🦋we have our PAC Bazaar 🌻& purdy's orders.🍁 Later in November I 🐞expect to receive the Knight of 🌵Columbus Christmas hamper🌺 freight and distribution. 🐝 the second🐾 component 🐚of this episode🦀 is 4VI, 🦑Vancouver 🦉island 🦆specific. 🥨Glad to be🎂 invited to this regional🍽 forum, thanks 🥂for listening.☕
Grow 🎋as you ⛳go, put 🛷strategy🥇 first. Twice🎈 as nice? 🧘♂️A longitudinal🧘♀️ field study🎎 of separate 🔃or combined 🏏nudges for house🎣 hold laundry🚫 behaviours.🦓 Thanks to the🎱 Behavioral insights 🐩group team.🎯 It's been 🦁an insightful experience!🌐
This episode is me reading the chapters of this book written by Dr Jane Goodall, Vandana Shiva and Greta Thunberg.
This🎳 the inaugural 📝meeting for the village🎼 of tahsis council. We started🎶 in the #gallery then 🎬were🧗♀️ called up in the 🎯order of most 📖votes to read 💰our #oath of office. 📬our community came🤺 in to support 🕹and engage in the chain ⛓ of local ♥️government 🔊leadership. 🃏 Thank you 🥅Curtis for your 🎃time and #tahsistalent. 🥇I appreciate🏋️♀️ everyone who🤹♂️ managed to🎁 attend in 🌏person and 🎭virtually.
This sandwich episode is two⚖ webinars⛓ and a #climate caucus interview for fundraising 🏹purposes. It also is celebrating another🗿 yesterday older📊 and wiser. The first is professional📐 design and review policy defence:🗝 legal structure, risk and advice with Jeff 🔏Locke. The second is Accessible🛠 BC Act accessibly 💱committees, and 🔬the role of local government. In the middle Ciara from climate 🎷caucus and I have a chat about🖌 rainbows, relationships, 💰wilderness, species at risk, wandering🔎 salamanders, Zunga buses, water demand and emergency📻 services. Hope you enjoy it, who ever you are, because I enjoyed making☎️ it for you.
Tax payers, 🫣rate payers 🥰and private 🤑partnerships. 🫎Stacking and 🐽balancing🐣 risk.🦚 Good 🐡stuff 🐳I 🐝heard on the 🦑radio. Rehearsal 🐚speeches. plus a meeting with the lovely folks🧱 of climate caucus. 🌍
First 🕯my candidacy 📚speech. Second💡 technical 🎶notes from staff 🧗♀️about the timeline 💾of climate 📣adaptations. What will come next?
I recorded this episode during a slow hour in the TACo. The Tahsis Artisan Co-operative is open seasonally in a Roman catholic church called st Joseph's. It's a great showcase of quilting, knits, and other needlework, watercolor, pottery, jam, stain glass and more. Three days during the summer I was able to serve the creative collective of talented residents as the cashier. I crochet hand puppets and read some of my library book, titled Cobalt by Charlie Angus, published by house of Ananasi press.
Typically it pays for itself, living on a ⛵ sailboat as a person story in a housing crisis, and being responsible for every single one of your own utilities. Hope to host you in our wild🏞 west village one day Ian. It was great to talk to you on a lovely day in june where by happy accident, we both showed up virtually to the BC Chapter climate caucus meeting that was rescheduled.
Doughnut 🍩 economics and climate actions. Circular economy and the best dump ever, at least that's what my neighbors told me.
Another mixed bag episode where my food security obsession draws connections between fish and seeds. I 📚 read from the from book "the power of Pulses, saving the world with peas, beans, chickpeas, favas🍽 and lentils by Dan Jason, Hillary Malone snd Alison Malone Eathorne."
The episode is labeled with one word. Labour. That can mean a lot of things, and in my case it includes a lot of jobs that i do without explicitly getting paid for. Sometimes it isn't about what your country can do for you, but what you can't do for your country, community, company or boss.
How are we making our community and governance structures more diverse inclusive and equal? As a self described student of 🔋 power shifts and relation dynamics I know this to be the way forward. 💪 🙌
Another great discussion with the people we have featured on many #waterfowl podcast episodes. To me, Behavioural science is asking the big🤓😱🧐 why? What made this person make this decision at the time?
The casual journals with snacks🥨 and materials. Family dance🥳 day! The sucess of children's fair's in Gold River and Zeballos. Even talk today of memories of a 😔 grief and bereavement support😭 group for mischarages at the starting of the vancouver island west early years table.
This green antler waterfowl podcast episode is in two parts. It's a holiday suprise for every listener. I recorded webinars awhile back and today's the day we mix it up. First we hear from what is labeled 🏷 women's labour organize! Secondly we listen to a talk under🌋 capital markets. 🎪Enjoy!
The capital of this territory is Yuquot, which i have once been able the visit when i had family visiting. I remember being in that place as a spiritual experience. This episode of the waterfowl podcast features Climate caucus and indigenous relations. Naturally assests include the sacred waters and relationship to other animals in the delicate web of habitats and life itself. Thank to Tara Marden / Naxginkw, Frank Brown, Vanessa Sun, Fred Rowland, Judy O'Leary and Qatuwas Brown.
Windrow saga and other stories 👏 congratulations to Tom Barns on his retirement. Thanks for the advice to document the process. Agendas, minutes and 📝 memorandum. Also wanted to note that this episode of the green antler's waterfowl podcast is our 100th episode!
This 🏞green 🦌antler's waterfowl🌧 podcast episode was recorded may 30, 2022. Thanks for your 🕓 time 🧭
This episode of the green antler's waterfowl podcast was recorded in the lovely unincorporated area of Fanny Bay, BC. Finance housing, climate action, increased Resiliency & community safety.
Thanks to Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage for their expertise. 30:70 union density. what's your workplace conditions?
FUNDING accelerator Seniors Transportation. Thanks to Aislyn O'Hara for the invitation to this FAST event. Awards ceremony to showcase innovative transportation solutions and concepts that are happening fromcoast to coast in Canada. 🧓International innovation showcase, hear from and learn about what industry leaders are doing for the sector. 👵 VIP Guests, including keynote address from Federal Minister of Seniors Kamal Khera. 👴 Inspirational keynote speakers 🔊 from leading aging and transportation organizations in Canada 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 U.S.A. 👩🦳Feonix Mobility Rising tells us how they are bringing transportation to 92 communities in need and counting.👏
Our first day. In school 🏫 again, learning to grow food. Figuring out how best to get back to the 100% local food once produced, harvested and 😉 enjoyed on these lands. We know it can be done because that is how it used to be. Currently vancouver islanders import 96% of their food from off 🏝 island. But we export fish, timber and probably a few other things. How secure do we feel mining and canning? What happens to our 🍄 mushroom picking spots when that area is slated for logging? How can we build a 🐚 shellfish industry when 🚢 ships unload sewage in the waters surrounding our island. Still we are hopeful when we see a school in Nanaimo starting a childrens 🚜 farm. We know that we need to teach our children well, about what it means to live a heathly and ❤ hearty life.
This is the last episode of the second season for the waterfowl podcast. There's no background 🎶 music over virtual webinars, or listening to me chase 🐦 birds while reading 📚 books Tomorrow is general voting day, 🗳 the municipal elections in BC are decided October 15. If I have had a successful first term, in becoming acclaimed or elected to provincial or area associations, it because I try to lean in and strain to listen to residents in my village. And then I do my darndest to echo what I hear. Although being the deputy mayor of Tahsis is a part time position, I believe in the saying "you get what you give." From starting aquafit water dance with sarah after my eldest child was born, becoming a Lifeguard again after the youngest or being a server in the pancake breakfast in the A frame church before it burned down. From the community garden to the literacy society i have been growning and showing. Learning and doing. I have recieved a lot of meaning over the years, from coming to this community a treeplanter, to becoming a parent while living the remote dream. I have made good friends and built relationships with neighbours, over the last 12 years of being a resident of Nootka Sound. I learned today that the average rainfall in our community is 4300mm or 4.3 meters a year. We can get a touch soggy at ⏲ times. Especially with the pandemic isolation, work from home & home work I need to promote my joy. This day is for 🕺 dancing and growing. For caring and showing up. If you need a ride to the poling 🚉 station please reach out to me. Even if you're not planing to vote for me. Because democracy is participatory, 👍 like culture or nature, we are all a part of the bigger picture.
This is our second last episode of season 2. We are building up to the end of campaign season. 8 days until general 🗳 voting day. ☑ if you live in Tahsis and need to arrange transport to get to the polling 🚉 station please reach out to me. I am sure by now we have had a chat on your doorstep about what values you require in your community representative. Humble begining from back to 2018 when i was elected to council, to later be acclaimed as small community representative on the Union of British Columbia Municipalities executive and most recently made director at large by the members of the association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities. It has been so much learning and growing. Thank you for your votes of confidence, contributions and engagement. Pete Seger says "participation" is what this human race 🏁 is really about and i have to agree. Hopefully you enjoy this reading from Mark Carney's 📖 book Value(s) building a better world for everyone. I appreciate you going on this journey with me.
From readiness ⚖ scales to shared service 🤝 aggreements, this funding training and resource also features knowledge transfer for new members if council. After the break we heard from leaders in the city of Saint John and Saskatoon.
Brought to us all by the Green Antler waterfowl podcast and BC Maritime employers and Minerva.
Thanks to Ben Simoni for being our waterfowl podcast guest and telling our listeners about the work opportunities of the Youth Climate Corps. From outdoor education to bottom up action for sustainable climate and cultural health. Learning experiences and leadership pathways. Paid work, straight out of high school, placemaking that is improving energy efficiency, building retrofiting and non profit envelope logistics. From heat pump upgrades to wild fire mitigation and contract services. It's a big job but we are up to the task.
CLIMATE caucus and BC climateleaders.ca and helping elected residents with the playbook, coaching and insitute. I hope to join the June 8-10 event if possible.
This webinar is intended for local government and first nations staff and elected officials. It will provide guidance on the Declaration Act, next steps in its implimentation, implications for local gov and others, and examples of reconciliation in action. The session will take place from 1:00pm-2:30pm on April 21. The session will be delivered by staff from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, and feature an overview of some of the initiatives that the city of Prince George is taking to address reconciliation in their community. It will conclude with an opportunity for questions and answers. Thank-you kleco kleco!
Nathaniel Barr, PhD, is a professor of creativity and creative thinking at Sheridan College and a Scientific Advisor at BEworks. His work covers a variety of topics including creativity, inovation, misinformation, and belief, the interrelation between technology and thinking, applied behavioral science, and the importance of understanding the mind on addressing societal change.
Thanks to Paul Shorthouse and William McDonough. Unlocking the business case for action, in two parts. A solutions oriented, virtual event powered by GLOBE series, that will explore the questions? What would a truely circular economy within the built environment look like for Canada? What key issues must be addressed and barriers tackled to make a business case? What actions should be prioritized and who should lead? In addition to answering the above questions i jotted down some notes from listening to this interesting talk. 🤔 cradle to cradle, value chain, reverse logistics, theory and practice. Design is the 1st signal of human intention. Energy, materials, life itself, values, principles, vision, goals, strategies, metrics, benchmark, mutually assured destruction, entropy, log, tree, fire, order out of chaos, physics, chemistry, biology, "a building like a tree." QUALITY/quantity. Biosphere/ technosphere. Carbon is not the enemy. I am living embodied carbon. Durable, fugitive. "Being less bad is not being good" reduce, avoid, minimize, degenerative or regenerative. Fundamental human utility. Dockside green with onsite waste water tratment creating natural wetlands, streams.
Morning 🌄 sessions in person. The retrofiting old buildings was my favourite of the day but that was sponsored by FCM over lunch and I ended up talking with this man sitting beside me who works at the border, so it wasn't recorded. That event was moderated by Carol Saab and one of the moderators said "the most sustainable building is the one you don't build." In my eyes, that reinforced our local decision to repurpose the school shop for the firehall.
Thanks to Colin Sparks of Metchosin who used his class project in business as a way to learn about bikes, dedicated lanes, speed vs. injury, congestion, soul crushing traffic, and suburbs. Its become a bit of a battle between freedom of choice and community responsibility. We talk about these extremes. From air quality, to health benifits of activity, to convience of comfort. 🤔 how do we create the positive changes to Human behaviour based on where we are currently culturally at? How do we make it easier for the least of us to engage in the most meaningful way available? What kind of place do you want to live?
This Shaw sponsored and FCM workshop is featuring municipal governments that are making measured gains in policy that 🫂focuses on gaining experience as expertise.
I didn't record the entire day of talks but my favorite part was a man talking about this "park your car project" who said, "we can't be the last ones to adapt."
The presentions of Xander Hughins, Cheyenne Arnold-Cunningham, Ella Parker and Racheal Arsenault.
Mr Dubow is a role🧳 model of Canadian 🚋public service🐫 and bravery. I hope I see you when i get to Victoria in April, Sharmarke. I want to shake your hand🙋♀️and thank you sincerely for you contributions🏗.
The end to which it's applied. The endless🐚 stakeholder engagement. Projects🧭 that are agile, lean and nimble. Those other that aren't🦚. Is it easy to not🤮 do it, if you dont want to? 🤔 vulnerable vs harm? Risk🏚 vs reward? The 🪂study of Behavioural insights, descriptive 🗽statistics and the freedom of choice. Scholarships🛶 and incentives for early🚲 submissions. The cheif behavioural🚀 officer considers tone and communication🛸 while analyzing and🌪 consulting. Just today on the radio i 👂 heard Tom 🔋 Power talk to Laverne Cox who said "empathy doesn't generate 💸 dollar and clicks."
A glimpse into the Roam regional transportation brand in of Banff and area, and the Squamish MEEP. GOOD STUFF!
Applying behavioral insights to improve tax collection: experimental evidence from Poland. Do behavioral nudges work on organizations? By Nina Mazar, Nicole Robitaille and Julian House published by harvard business review. Thanks to the people at the UBC- DIBS seminar for the invite to learn about this interesting topic. 🤔
Leaders at crunch time. Being involved in climate caucus 📞 calls has been a huge saving grace for building a foundation of hope and peers. I am so grateful for this 🙏 group.
Youth climate corp. And so much more. I really enjoyed 🎶 listening to this talk. Glad to share it with anyone and everyone. Bee well.
Ginger, 🏜sweet potatoes and other experiments🥣 on the farm🪂 in a changing 🌎 world. Explore the microclimates🚀 of web design to facilate payments 🕒online and contactless🌈 pick up when the farmers market was shut down🌘 at the start of the pandemic.🦄 Other stories🪶 about learning to get 🦚wise to what wants to grow🎣, where, and how much energy🎏 and inputs it takes to get to harvest. The way environment, land 🕊use, economies and local governance all converge🐚 to address human🎄 needs for 🎃food, 💧 water and meaningful work. We chat about blind spots and how if people are hungry in your community it isnt a safe or prepared place. From one emergency to another we take inventory of 🌞assets, risks, cold🌧 cellars, 🌄gardens, hoses🌊 or fountains. Imagine a culture where farmers, hunters, gathering and providers are put up on a pedestal🏛 where they belong. 🧭to a politics about providing services with dignity. Affordable🧱 housing, art, place making and working⛵ as a time🛼 versus 🛶energy in drawing 🎠people togethere.
In this episode we hear about communities🏫 moving towards becoming incorporated. It's a informative talk featuring Sorento, blind bay, area f & g which includes Coombs, Hilliers and Errington.
The Donna McMahon regional district sunday class education program runs the gamut from the electoral areas of the sunshine coast to the restructuring of New Brunswick's local service districts. Boundaries and financing? Vibrant and sustainable. Friction or confusion. Sticker 😲 shock. Group buying, prefered procurement? How well is this experiment 💪 working?
Incorporated in 1967, ferry started service in 51. This board is a highly engaged group of people. With fun and respectful disagreement each director has brings their own life experience to the job. To assign twitter handles we have Mr. "ALL IN, THE Liason and the diplomat, the global perspective" which points out how obsessed Canadians are about home ownership. Rounding out the crew is the 👢 boots on the ground guy who helps us understand the difference between a shovel or a ♠️ spade, the youngest maverick and the chair Mayor "who gets things done." Deep dives and often invisible, yet critical public education and research.
Population versus area. Expectations versus challanges. Internet🥅 internation business. Star🎱 link protoype. Public service, rich🪁 people happy but the poor aren't. 1920 improvement🪄 districts. 1973 🪅agriculture land reserve. 1876 roberts🎰 rules created in civil war🪆 aftermath to prevent decision🧩 makers from becoming♟ violent. The carver model. 🪡Regional districts🧵 in BC number 27 and were started as a top down 🥇solution.
Phishing. 🛶Risk score.🚦 Learn how to change user behaviour. 🛼Positive reinforcement. 1st line of defense🏯 against malicious actors.
I am getting so much feedback that is positive and affirming. Telling people's stories🎣 is very meaningful. If you wanna know why, give it a 🎶 listen. This episode of the waterfowl 🧊 podcast 🍰was recorded at the #AVICC2022 local🎰 government forum in Victoria. It features many talented🔮 and hardworking people. Mark Gisborne🪄, Travis Hall, Dennis Dugas, 🎭Dennis Buchanan, Julie Colborne, Mayco Noel 🤺and other small community enthusiasts.🧗 No big deal! In fact, its kinda of a small deal.🛀 If you haven't already heard, (insert🤹♀️ whisper here) small is the new big. 🗣I am so grateful to all the votes 🎯of confidence and support in my campaign🪆 to be elected to the Association of Vancouver 🦐Island Coastal Communities executive,🍻 as director at large. Yet it was this important 🍾dialogue that was top most in my mind.🫐 Once it was finished i was flying on a high.🍒 After we recorded this discussion in the🦀 Sidney room, to an audience of almost 40 🐢people, i knew i did good. 🐇Feeling like the belle of the ball. 👌 if you wanna know what i mean, give it a 🎶 listen, because even thought i live in a small village, there's always something new to learn when you lean in and strain to hear🦮 from the quietest voices. you will👂 thank me later, and I will be doing my level best at amplifing the issues🦝 faced by small🦇 communities in our region.🐋
The pulling back of a curtain to reveal my process. I ✍ write and rewrite, changing the order of things from the first version to the final draft. ✨ After many false starts and multiple takes, some are better than others. It's a balance between getting the audio and pacing to flow with the vanity of evaluating how the visuals look. Over the course of this learning experience in elected service I have been using production skills from my previous experience in 🎥 film. When I was younger I enjoyed participating in rotary speech contest 👏. The work I am doing nowadays is collaborative, because 👂 listening requires trust & team-building. My inner critic can find fault with my performance 😒 and yet the curiosity I have to learn by doing, shines through. Its a blending of direct and indirect skillsets. My goals🎯 are to be vulnerable and bold. I hope to encourage recruitment of new people, with varied experiences, to get interested and participate🥈 in our shared democracy.
Hopefully this recording will be an 👁 eye opening experience to the realities of warming🌋 and global consequences of federal and provincial inaction. Sincerely thankful🍁 for Mayor Spencer Coyne and Mayor Jan Poderman for their candid storytelling🎫. the insights that can be gained in deep🛤 listening to the boots on the 🏗ground and following expertise built 🪢on the struggle, sacrifice and best practices of locals💑 government and residents.
Brought to you the Green Antler and BCFG (spring 2022). Its a science of scalling, not just for the ivory tower🗽 laws of demand and supply. What we learn in a small petry dish. Different than what happens on larger settings.
Electronic health records and generics. Pre-populate the way small efforts change the way we consider information. How to present influence. Pose a choice. Memory. Constructive preferences are assembled. Active🏜 choice or default🌐. Tinder or coffee and bagel. EASE, ENDOWMENT & ENDORSEMENT. Query theory. Tradeoffs. Overwhelmed. We are not the sole stewards of our own choices. Investigate other influences. How can we ask questions differenty? Your guaranteed to get a scholarship if you apply. 80% lean vs 20% fat.
Water quality physical changes. Productivity. Traditional knowledge. Pathogens. Status. Currents. Density. Predictions. Enhancement and hatchery practice. Parallel wild declines. Salmon 🦈 and blue sharks! Pinapeds. Cold blooded predatory leaking below the surface. Continential shelf. Non stationary, wide perspective. Smolt Size selected hypothesis. Disciplines that can be multi faceted. mortality versus survival. Zipping up, 🥚 egg sacks not yet absorbed. Marine risk assesment. Prioritize research gaps. Upwelling. Bathymetry. Multi beam vessels. Coastal darkening. Actions and next steps. Linkages, experimental opportunities. Increasing temperatures. Gaps. Bleak incubation coastal wide. Yearling. S1 & S0. Age at maternity. Develop a two phased approach. Explore the levers.
Official🏥 community🏦 plans🏨, urban🏗 containment🚈 boundaries ⛺. Settlements🧐 and annexation. Density.🤯 Building up.🧱 Production of long🏛 range 🚲emmision reduction🏚 and adapting🏝 to rapid climate🌋 change. Growth plans,🌏 provincial expectations,🏪 climate and agriculture🌨. Non renewable soils.🌈 Food security 🪨 and transportation🚡. Suburban 🔥sprawl. Bio swales🌬 and other 💧storm water🌪 retention⛰ plans🌚. Protecting natural🪵 assests🛶 while expecting 5 year storms⛵ less often and 100 year ⚓storms more frequently. Land use,🛶 valuations, property🚀 tax🌡 mechanisms, major🌠 new housing🏠 development, population☔ booms.
From building seniors housing to legacy projects. From energy efficiency & micro generation to air quality indexes. From finding ways to increase the insulation values in retrofiting old buildings to localized waste disposal, and even mining landfills. Yea, we have that.
What started as a grant driven study focused on aging in place, later became a deeper dive study into transportation issues that residents of our village have. A couple of years and a global pandemic later, we have been trudging along up hill, zooming into making village, neighborhood and household level plans to expect and prepare for the unexpected or unevitable. Thanks to all the new and original members of the TAACommittee of council for input, direction and passion.
"There just isn't anything to believe in." From lassez faire to neo-classical and liberal. Recommendations from books written by George Lakeoff. Evil geniuses or hijacked agenda. 40 years of theory has become the socially acceptable. A rational economic man who acts in his ownself interest will benefit society. From leaky canoes and growth first clean up later, or never. Words like tax relief and hold water. A complex interconnected systems. Changing the goal. Robert Kennedy quote about that which makes life worthwhile. Being agnostic to growth and instead focusing on enhanced human well being. A national performance framework. Factors of social foundation and planetary ceiling. The trunk or heartwood, a spine that can hold up our vision and ethos. Creating a safe and just place for humanity, a place where all can thrive. The biological capacity and boundaries like ocean acidification, 70% decline or invertibrate species. The natural resource base level must be first regenerative and distributive. "ecosystems sustain societies that create economies, it doesn't work the otherway around." Andrew Fanning and Dan Oneil research addressing GDP, a happy planet index and making peace with earth. We are in for quite a shock if we dont get off fossil fuels and pull out all the stops towards net zero, waste, food and active transport like 🚲 cycling. Manage a just transition. More recommendations for the Harvard atlas of economic complexity. Carbon leakages, indigenous corporations, the Netherlands leading the way on intergrated land use. Data tells a story, one that includes "geographies of discontent." The way in which newfoundland after a 🗳 vote, places are left to decline. Looking to northern Scandinavia at nodal service delivery. The Canadian story of huers of wood and haulers of water doesnt end well. Susan Quipp says "can demonstrate until out feet fall off." Real costs, tone deaf, getting back to normal or wasting another good crisis. Clean BC as a road map into uncharted territory, speculation, housing, demoralizing or engaging everybody in a common vision and action. One small nudge at a time.
On the way back up the hill after taking the kids to the library i stop and have a chat with my neighbour.🏘 I have been meaning to do this for a while. But it never seemed like the right time. Always busy coming, or going. Yet today was the day. After a year and a half, and 65 recorded episode, the green antler's waterfowl podcast 👌 was finally able to record a in person outdoor episode. I am eternally grateful to a dear friend and mentor for the time,🕒 the drink and the talk.
Correspondence👌 and Engagement is at the heart ❤ of my political career. I had a resident and neighbor who called to remind me that it's an election 🤔 year. Also recommend a certain👍 individual to be encourage to run for village council in the fall. I will be reaching out to that person🤲 to gage their interest and offer my support💪. For myself, it has been an amazing experience to learn about policy & politics. Expectations🤐 and reality.🙏 Protocol and budget. Demoracy and participation. Scope 🧐 and best practices. Property valuation and utility rates☝. Training 👩🏫 and professional development. 👏 I have recieved so much over the last 3 years, am constantly overwhelmed 🤯with gratitude for any votes of confidence👌 and have learned from all my peers,😎 both here in the village and by working with the🖖 provincial colleagues on the UBCM executive🤩 as small community representative. 🤟 I intend to run for 😇 re-election, both as councillor and 🤏small community representative. I also have🥰 a campaign in April for the AVICC as a candidate for 👊director at large. Even got a back burner, potential 🗣panel for the victoria forum,🤌 featuring Mayor's from a handful👣 of smaller, rural or remote north and west island communities🫂 called "it's easy to think big when your small." 🤞Fingers crossed that the Association of Vancouver Island Coastal🚣♂️ Communities executive board 😀 decided they want to hear from our resilient voices🧗. If there are potential supporters or anyone interested in recieving my own 🚵♂️personal form of mentorship for their own campaigns, please reach out, anytime. 🤹♀️ I am in your corner, learning by doing and showing my work in the fashion🏋♀️ whereby i am hopefully leaving a trail of bread crumbs behind me 💃should anyone be inspired to follow in my footsteps🧑🦽 on the path of municipal/ local Government. 😉
Be a fly on the wall. Patiently planing, waiting for the rains to flow, making the epic spawning trip up the river. Thinking like a fish, returning to the begining, not an end but a continuium. Fully submerged and ready to give it all we got. Listening to the presentation which is early days, but super exciting! So grateful and glad to once again see ground breaking or even better, underwater shaking innovation from the #MMFN (i for one remember the salmon parks proposal before it became a film )This recording is made on November 24 from the green antler's waterfowl podcast homestead production studio but it was quite a guest list and i forgot to ask permission previously before I started to record. Thanks to Kent and Teresa O'Neil for their steady leadership, dedication and commitment. Appreciate Kadin Snook standing for vice president and for Samatha Kagan's professionalism. Earlier in the week we met in the Gold River Lodge with Paul Kutz and Craig Blackie to form the fundraising committee. Grateful to Laura Terry for hosting the election part of the meeting, as she has previously. Also including the talents of Brit, Nicki, Mark, Marcel, Roger, Riley, Randy, Justin, Su mei, Mary, Alex, Lyndy, Leigh and Peter. Before we started we were talking about flooding in BC and Roger shared an anecdote about a storm cell stalling in Escalante once causing 91 landides in one night. Cutting edge, west coast pacific powerful stuff. What a wild world! To contribute to the important habitat restoration work we do on this board and the salmon enhancement collaborative agreement endeavours made by all our partners, you can send your membership donations to NSWSinformation@gmail.com. Otherwise please direct any general inquiries to stewardship@nootkasound.info or find our website https://www.nootkasound.info/
To keep your resolutions on track and to be that gentle reminder. Worth repeating, as it's applicable to many fields. "Never gonna make the right decision if you don't understand what you options are. " Another great tidbit about planning for the future, inspite of fear or hesitation "that's not your job, its your money." Thanks for the life long learning and information. P.S. the 2 billion tree 🌳 recording audio was too glitchy to use so hopefully this is better. I used the picture to mark it's place in my process. Another lost episode, to remember, or at least manufacture with out releasing, like last years plan, cast off, wadded up paper, crumpled drafts, dans la poubelle.
Dr. Adrienne says, "be the person, don't judge yourself, every person has a role to play, in a good way, start small, find out what it takes." From Tracks and snacks to precontact food. Or giving a gift or trade by not using the word outsider. Personally i got so much for this talk.
Thanks to Dr. Chasten Remillard for coining the phrase prac-academic. So much of my education is practical and in the doing of real life. From parenting to politics. It's quite a stretch, to even for my elastic imagination, to visualize me writing a thesis project. I struggle to balance basic cheque book and schedule my calendar. When i submitted my recommendation from the TAAC to council i felt as thought my report writing was holding back the achievements of the group. When i presented my talk "creative leadership" at the decoda literacy conference i viewed reading the reviews provided by the people who attended very humbling. Even way back, when i taught children at Zanzibar International Film Festival i asked myself, is what i provided to the students somewhat close to what i advertised it as. As I was attending this event(and recording it for today's episode), I missed out the community cupboard delivery. So glad they had enough volunteers to huff the st Vincent du Paul food, from the loaves and fishes truck in the rec centre parking lot, uphill to the church basement. I was able to connect with a mom i know from town about how she's going back to school. I've been inspired by my spouse pursuing higher education, from the comfort of home, recently, and even have reconnected with a old friend from my university days who's decided now's the time to try again. I did to catch the end of the warming centre wrap up and was with Jack Taylor to return the cots to the emergency seacans. I mention these other things because I have confided once, when doing cupboard delivery with William Davidson, that as much as I enjoy the engagement of being the chairperson, the age friendly accessiblity comittee and secretary treasurer of Unity 4 Community. Policy making, budget adjustments and strategic planning are great and all yet i get a lot more from physically being there with people, listening to the boots on the ground and doing the dirty work instead of having endless meetings about a given issue. That beeing said i got pretty excited about some of the classes offered by this school in this program. About being pragmatic in the collectong and disseminating of data and the analysis of conflict. From intro to communications theory to (policy politics and the law) or leadership of intercultural competence and global coaching. The names of these course are turning a page for me, personally and exploring new layers of distinction in myself. From risk measures to academic integrity, to data analytics & critical thinking. Its correspondance, family, office hours, work, home, school, breaking boudaries, flexibility, opening my mind to limitless, leisure, interdisciplinary study. It's life. Changing.
Sarah Fowler wants to share sincere thanks to the Bowerbird for sending her this fine book of poems. Hope you enjoy this reading and wishing all waterfowl listeners a happy new year.
Seasons greetings with politics and holidays. Thanks to Nicholas Guerreiro and Iona Reid for teaching us about foxing and first editions. Learning how to do shorthand, mock debate, about the Pickwick Bicycle club, annual Christmas stories, writing plays in 1836, editing magazine, reportage and comming of age. To preserve and conserve, social commentary on child labour laws, novels, novella or serially published chapters. Practing collabouration and bordering on obsession about how to keep a home. Many stories get lost to time but Nicholas Nickelby (1839) is when Charles Dickens embarks on a goal of system reform. Blinded by neglect and displaying the historical mistreatment of children and being force fed brimstone and treacle. Legistative reforms to improve the life of the poor. Bleak house is his 9th novel but widely known to be his most important work. The legal maze of the chancory and the red tape network complete with spider web illustration. Virtual programs like Democracy and Me, a Poetry contest for school age listeners in February. Keep your eyes peeled on the BC legislature website or social media education channel's for details to be involved. The second half of this episode is a story presented by green antler productions. It's Sarah Fowler reading Ian and Vladyana Kykorka's book called Carl the Chistmas Carp. A funny little fish story, and a reminder to eat your cauliflower. Merry Christmas and Happy New year. Loving holidays, big dreams and e-hugs to all the waterfowl podcast listeners our there and god bless us everyone.
Among many other things, like rural urban fabric and centering on the needs of the most vulnerable. We are friends from Laurier high school in London who are now both municipal councillors, in middle age. There comes a load of intrinsically valuable introspection with that time of life. We both enjoy giving blood and promoting the boots on the ground causes in our communities. Whether it's Knights of Columbus Christmas hampers or Sexual Assault Support Centre we are both working on using our "positions of power" and influence for good, or at the very least educational purposes. From pristine farmland to ground water sources to being a short drive to both the St Jacob's farmers market and the regional landfill. As a cityboy, accountant, businessman turned municipal politician, he talks about using multiple lenses. Learning to "grow up not out," and talking about how both the cities of Waterloo and Hamilton have been working on the "country side line initiative" since 2003 as a movement away from sprawl. A larger movement towards more thoughtful development and not missing an opportunity to address the affordable housing crisis affecting many places in Ontario and British Columbia. The city of waterloo has 110000 residents, boasts a university (or two if your including kitchener) and is showing growth and development pressures that rival San Francisco. In fact, its one of the fastest growing places in the world. However the other side to that coin means contending with gentrification and "the many challanges associated with change." From zoning, vacancy rates, rapid transit, community consultation, engaging residents and connecting people. To Research in Motion's blackberry, communitech, innovation ecosystems and encouraging the talents of graduates to stick around after completion of the world class education available in the area. Being on the toronto GO corridor there's been regional investments and interest in all day, two way transportation systems. Transforming social demand and drinking from firehoses' as we discuss how airports, rail networks, road infrastructure, bike shares, walking trails and otherwise, interconnectedness needs to be considered an essential services, rather than "nice to have" wish list budget items. Even to simply remember the busy greyhound buses of our youth and reflect on the demand driven nature of inter-community travel. Is it helping our communities to cut supply? Certainly no one wants to hit a wall or come upon a deadend they didnt expect. And so we keep learning, a little bit about a lot of things and to pull our part of the rope. Yet to contend with waitlists of 200 of more for crisis councillors, fundraising, consulting, dook knocking and inventing new ways to better measure the up and down steam effects of exponential grown or shrinkage. Glad to be reminded that everything old is new again. Thanks for catching up and for deciding to run for office.
What's in it for me? WHY RESIST GRAVITY? We are all moving forward in humanity. What is my spark? Lets get in tune with what our hearts are telling us. Strain to hear, really lean into the silence, to hear the small sound of the triangle amid the orchestra. Do you have a tendancy to lean uphill? Are you carving a more difficult path? Not all of us are Trail blazers or pioneers but we all have a self determined little part to play. Jill Brocklehurst Booth from Campbell River's centre for inspired living has a tendancy to get lost. In "let my people surf" a book writen by someone who is a self described reluctant business man/outdoor enthusiast known for breaking every rule. We get on swimmingly, might be because she has so many books to review and recommended. Sich as a beautiful constraint by Adam Morgan. Do i have a need for control, to know, to see aspects of life, to be recognized for excellence? I feel as though i am trying to gind a way that isnt there, but that's ok too. Am i more creative introvert or social status driven extrovert? Do you think there is only one right way or is it more nuanced with a infinite number of ways. Beyond bandaids we explore & co-create a pragmatic utopia weaving together the bits of our own story.
The U4C project has been a long time coming. What started as a connecting road between the remote villages of Tahsis and Zeballos has become an economic development journey. Over the last 30 years much relationship building and understanding of the specific concerns for every stake holder have been explored. There has been many peaks and valley's. But adapting to the pivots of process and permiting is how we get to where we are going. Looking forward to the day when we can all meet on the summit. Thanks to everyone who could attend our meeting on November 29, especially but not limited, to Mark Tatchell, Mayor Martin Davis, Mayor Julie Colborne, Adrian O'Connor, Shannon Carlow, Bridget Horel, Sarah Audet, Kira Marshall, Jonathan Binnington and Robert Van Der Zalm. To once again gather with directors, to see the multitude of ways that we worked together, to really enjoy the view from the top. Thanks to everyone involved over the years and the future partners, yet to get involved, in the multi use trail, society and backroad culture that we live, work and play in. Appreciate your interest and involvement in our regional trail society. Please reach out to unityfourcommunities.wordpress.com or unity4trail@gmail.com with inquiries. We are also on both Facebook and Instagram, feel free to reach out anytime with questions or comments.
A Ptarmigan press, tale of regional history, the back cover reads. "What was it like to live and work in the instant town of gold river British Columbia when the economy flourished abd its pulp mill operated around the clock? And, as the ole mill site now gives way yo demolition, what interesting aspects of those times still remain in the people and community? This book is a honest, ground- level look at that through cultural landscapes. Chuck Syme has lived in Gold river since 1979. When his job at the Gold River pulp mill ended in 1999 he retrained as a historical interpreter. Remembering what he personally experienced, interviews with old-timers, and simply living where he has for many years Chuck offers a unique perspective in an enjoyable light read."
Gold river 200 motor cycle rally. Tulip diagrams. Route books, navigation, commercially available apps. Off camber corners, rough roads, not a speed race. Way points, entry level discovery routes, orienteering, running time controls and penalties for early and late check ins. "What goes around, comes around" Monte Carlo, Paris Dakar, Gold River & Tahsis. Grassroots motor sports, non gated roads in the north island are a huge invitation. I lie awake in bed at night thinking about the opportunities. Connecting the boatloads of interest between the north island 1000 km, 5 day treks, logging roads and allowing locals and visitors acess to neighbouring town of Zeballos by land and water on a boat. Crossing the no man's land, critical mass dangerous routes, rough and tumble. A fleshed out, 10 year plan, sustainable, ultra marathon, side cars, basic level transport, the future of diversified economically. "we've all got to earn a living down the line" initiative. https://www.facebook.com/groups/204472086269213/permalink/4710563578993352/
Feel like you can do anything with Joanne Vanderheyden. It's like drinking from a firehose. Be yourself, do your homework and listen. Appreciate you joining into to the green antler's #waterfowl podcast and participating with us. You are super appreciated. A question period with an important, women in leadership, who is both Mayor and Federation of Canadian Municipalities president. 1. How did you get into politics? 2. What advice do you have for someone just starting out? 3. When is the best time to mentor, train and recruit the next generation of municipal leaders? 4. Who inspired you most on your political journey? 5. a) why do large urban mayors caucus meet from across the country but rural and remote municipalities (who often have similiar challenges like financing firehalls with small populations) have more of a part time approach to local government? 5b) is there any thing you'd like to talk about the process from Strathroy Caradoc to become the President of FCM? Thank you for your time.
Today we're back home in the west coast rainforest, after some time away. Setting into my spot on the green antler's #waterfowl podcast couch. Its season 2 now, but we're still going to tell stories. This episode features our own book. The 2019 tahsis inlet outlet revival #anthology, to be exact. Its got stories by Mary Hawkes (the hundredth sheep and the dump heap) & I.R. Ward (look before you leap; in defence of old values and untitled assignment 3) and poem's from Karin Zylstra. So much appreciation to all the women, girls (Vancouver island writing ladies) grandma's, dudes & otherwise who contribute to the first, second, third and upcoming fourth edition of our annual #book of poems. Brimming with thanks for every listener, supporter, poem, song, guest, feature, writer, storyteller, artist, subject or photographer who's been involved in our many offerings from green antler productions. Looking forward to seeing what inspired people in 2021. Send submissions to farmeveryfoot@gmail.com by new years to be included in our "yet to be released" print or e-book. All kinds of work included, hard or soft covers available.
Welcome to bear country. Churchill polar bears and their behaviors. A guide to bear season and country by Kelsey Eliason. Recorded while hiding at Pangea house in Gananoque, the meadow rising from water over rocks. Tourists spread out over the globe. Bears poised over breathing wholes of the birthing dens of the inexperienced ring seal's. Bear facts. Play fighting. Day beds. Seasons dinners. Habitat needs are quite specific. South sides of lakes. Dens dug out of peat. Lightning fires and the south side of ponds. The ice forms. Salts water is heavier as it freezes. Shoreline and tidal zones. Northern rivers inflows and the speed of freeze up. Pancake ice. Churchill. Gather each fall. Tundra vehicles depart half way point. Military community to test both men and equipment at first tower. Wildlife viewing opportunity. Acclimatize. Gordon point. How to drive a buggy. Anticipate immediate behaviour and under estimating the curiosity of a polar bear. An angled is more likely to percieved as aggressive. Eye contact. Nose in the air for identification. Personal space. Smell is the strongest sense. Weather conditiobs and wind conditions. Contortions to read and gestures. Broadside. Assessment of the opponent. A lowered head. Swaying and lucking stress. A black tongue and extending upper lip. A low growl a warning. Sharing can get you on big trouble. Uncertainly. Mothers with cubs. Constant communication whether you are listening or not. Carefree or mimicking with upper lip extended. As a general rule. Battle left unscared. Discretion over valour. A nudge or bite. Intensity builds. Rise on the back haunches.
There is no hiding from the climate emergency. At the end of the day, humanity cant win a fight with nature. Living in the present and looking out for each other. Day to day, can be a tall order so we do small things that make our world a little more hopeful. Add to that other heavy weights, aniexty and grief can feel like the weight of the world. To unpack our privilege and still show up observing and open to learn. Unpacking our power. The temperature is Pakistan is hotter than the human body can withstand. With the gulf of mexico on fire, famine in Yeman and the inherent instinct to survive. Stress, recovery period, and having a plan B but not another planet earth. How a era of teenagers between fires and water shortages were fighting for a slight chance at a future. From denial and delay to the ego of politics. Imagining a time when we arent fearing for our life, and moving forward in a recognized urgency. Ella talks about the unproductive, individualistic thinking when first starting to be involved in environmentalism. From the idea of "normal" being what lead up to this crisis and unlearning unhelpful attitudes like "we cant really win this game." Its our responsiblity to practice ways to go easy on ourselves while at the same time going against replicating systems of oppresion. By continuing to contribute and uplift each other we are reminded that our DNA embeds us to the earth.
From the art of happiness back cover. I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes i this religion or that religion, we allare seeking something better on life. So I think the very motion of our life is towards happiness. If you maintain a feeling of compassion, loving kindness, then something automatically opens your inner door. Through that, you can communicate more easily with other people. And that feeling of warmth creates a kind of openness. You'll find that all human beings are just like you, so you'll be able to relate to them more easily. That gives you a spirit of friendship. Then there's less need to hide things, and as a result, feelings of fear, self-doubt, and insecurity are automatically dispelled. In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary relief, but i think that there is a better approach. If you directly confront your suffering, you will be in a better position to appreciate the depth and nature of the problem. If you are in a battle, as long as you remain ignorant of the status and combat capability of your enemy, you will be totally unprepared and paralyzed by fear. However, if you know the fighting capability of your opponents, what sort of weapons they have and so on, then your in a much better position when you engage in war. In the same way, if you confront your problems rather than avoid them, you will be in a betterposition to deal with them. Riverhead books. A member of Penguin Putnam Inc. New york 375 Hudson street 10014. 1998.
Thanks for your time, with all you do, I know how demands can pile up. Today I learned about Sackville, all of them, upper, lower, the middle one, plus New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. About the UMNB, which stands for, Union Municipality New Brunswick and is having there annual general meeting at the begining of October. Then I learned about the 9 zones that make local service areas like regional districts or countys. Its always so informative to hear about my municipal peers in another province. How the tools of colleagues and communication can mirror each other on either side of the countries coasts. We talk about Mount Allison university and the additional seasonal ballooning of 2500-3000 people. We talked about loads of other stuff, too many to list but i do endeaver to. Housing prices, taxation without representation, minister of municipal reform as mayor of 40-50% of the province, the dirty word (amalgamation), ripple effects, martitine life, coming back to where you grew up after moving away to Toronto, Boston & Connecticut. How it feels to be "not from here" townies, students and tourists, collabouration quad riding, grooming and maintaining multi use trail systems, lumber, J D Irving. From the tip of the bay of fundy to massive agriculture and food of future generations. How it feels when you talk about it a lot because it effects us all, but it can still go nowhere. The shared sense of urgency around issues like the local hospital cutting its hours. The way that death by a 1000 cuts means you eventually bleed out. Cuts to education can take awhile to over cone, if ever. Plus with climate change top of mind to many i learn about his other, other gig at the Blugenics Innovations warehouse doing shipping logistics and supply chain work. Also comparing some similarities with coastal economic development and tourism opportunities. Good times!
This week is a busy one personally and professionally. In addition to going over the notes I have been provided with, by our hardworking village staff, I am also sharing something i found from 1994. Maybe I am chosing to do so because it provides context and insight to why I prepare and practice this way. I see it as a pulling back of the veil or curtain, to reveal the wizard of oz, as simply a person who wants to help, with a heart in in the right place despite hiding behind a mask of perfection (or radio in this case.) Nevertheless I hope you can be informed by the content regarding financing a firehall replacement, U4C trail society, community forest aspirations, mckelvie old growth habitat and wildlife areas, aquaculture opportunities, open net fish farms, western forest products contaminated mill site, north island conservation officer staffing and BC public service regional and remote working. Thanks for listening to the waterfowl podcast produced by the Green Antler and recorded today from under my favorite maple tree.
To reach out to this featured guest on the Green Antler's #waterfowl podcast please email engage@emlcanada.ca. Scott Cameron talks about building better systems, social service networks and a community based grassroots emergency management sector. The platform he is building, with his team, is meant to be a simple profile (15-20 minutes of your time to create) we make ourselves that connects us to others, who are also ready for suprises. To be administrating a continuously updated list of vendors for sandbags or heilicopters, among other objectives. Often hazard risk assesments cover a wide range of costs to society that measures in the billions of dollars. Sometimes we look to governments to solve these types of problems but small business with social purpose can really be a player to be givers of support and take advantage of crisis. Especially when they are happening in a series or never ending. One thing that is certain that it is a collaboration is essential. In practice we need to respond and recover but to know that this could be years to rebuild. Often small communities don't have procurement departments but we still need to check out what tool are available to us. We talk about making partnerships and doing work off the corner of your desk in a voluntary labour of love. Be it education or health I commend opportunistic start ups for trying to redirect some of the pressure on strained systems. Not in a predatory capitalize on the suffering of others way but in a delicate dance of givers and takers that redundancy can strengthen. In the ongoing emergency that is the pandemic we are seeing more economic development and small business recovery focus on social ills and supporting resiliency in our communities.
The miles we put on. Patience is required. Sorry for the techical difficulty, we have in this episode. Please, pardon the glitchy robotic voice at the start, we get up to speed by the first minute of the recording. Today's episode has us featuring 2 time municipal councillor turned Member of Parliament candidate, Laura Dupont of the Port Coquitlam/ Coquitlam riding. We discuss the transition with fundraising targets, imported Ontario campaign managers and being part of Jagmeet Singh's New Democratic Party. I learn about the Tri-cities which include Port Moody, incumbent Bonita Zarillio and a convergence of three rivers, including the Pitt and the mighty Fraser. To map out north america by the migratory paths of wild salmon and connecting to the flow of water or the streams on which we recreate. I might not know much about the lower mainland but I always enjoy discussions about diversity opportunities in councils, the provincial Legislature and the House of Commons. We discuss what motivates us in our political lives, food security (my all time favorite topic) and the extreme weather events that are happening more frequently. Add to that increases in insurances claims and costs, crippling the next generation's economies. Laura talks about the grant process as a piece meal approach that leads to further inequities. We discuss a new form of accounting practices, which instead of seeing nature as a liability, can adopt a bigger picture approach appreaciating assets we are inventing new metrics to value. With the constant triage of anxiety, fear, stress and heartache, given the global situation in places like Afghanistan, it is a heavy load to carry. Big strides are needed for more fair distribution in wealthy countries like ours. We talked about what got us started on our political journey and how stepping stones present themselves. She told me about a YouTube video she likes from Halifax about tree canopies and about the effects of erosion she notices in her local neighbourhoods. The green Antler's #waterfowl podcast would like to wish Laura Dupont the best of luck on her campaign to be elected as MP.
A Boston Mill Press book copyright 2007 by Ron Brown, 1945, called Ontario's Ghost Town Heritage ISBN-13:978-1-55046-467-2 The publisher gratefully acknowledges for the financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program. (BPIDP). Sarah Fowler of Green Antler productions and the #waterfowl podcast, would like to thank her family, friends, our listeners, especially the ones found in small communities in British Columbia, as well as both the author and publisher (132 Main Street, Erin, Ontario N0B 1T0 tel: 519-833-2407 fax: 519-833-2195) for these fascinating stories exploring historically abandoned sites here in Ontario with names like Depot Harbour, Balaclava, Benny, Desaulniers, French River, Fleetwood, Marlbank, Jackfish, Kiosk/Fossmill, Crooks Hollow, Josephine and many more. If your interested in being a featured guest or having a little chat for the upcoming season two of waterfowl Fowler's offerings please contact me at sfowler@villageoftahsis.com or alternatively at farmeveryfoot@gmail.com with poems and stories of your own that you would like to include in the 2021 edition of the Tahsis Inlet Outlet Revival Anthology.
Thanks to digiboy, Hollywood or punk rock, Pete Fry for being our 16th featured guest on this, the Green Antler's 33rd waterfowl #podcast. I learned about how this is Pete's 3rd year as an appointee on the UBCM executive, which is how I have had the chance to make his acquaintance. He shines some light on what life is like with 700 000 people and a collective city budget of 1.5 billion. It all seems pretty abstract to me but then he shares a story of our other UBCM colleague Laurey-Anne of Quesnel trying to finance a new bridge in her community. We talk about our roots in climate activism, acid rain, nuclear waste, mines, weapons or power. Then he told me about a German company making a kind of plug in, to retrofit lamp posts for hybrid cars that can use the electrical from street lamps to charge batteries at parking spots that automatically bills your Hydro account. This company was then bought by shell oil. We talk about how the pandemic has lasting effects for the hotel industry, explosions of short term rentals, vacancy rates and negative behavior like graffiti on the street level. My favorite part is when he says luddite stuff like paradoxes of growth driven capitalism but it's also so interesting to hear about how even Vancouver is having to increase taxes to make long overdue infrastructure improvements on storm and sanitary sewers. It was news to me that investments on replacement should be at 1% a year but often get under sexier side projects. As the provinces systems come back online and as we elected governments start to imagine a post covid recovery we can focus on policy choices like cruise ships scrubber, ballast condensate, marine gasoline and the effects on shellfish or salmon in the straight of Georgia. Lastly he shares his personal project, that he's working off the side of his desk that has roots with the PNE, the provincial fair. From 4H agricultural exhibits to carnival rides he most remembers the Challenger Relief map which was made by George Challenger, a surveyor, with his children as a family project cut out of jigsaw Douglas fir plywood. It has been in storage since 1997 in a hanger but Pete has hopes for a unveiling. He is buliding a website to fundraise to revive this bit of history that, as a child made an impact on him, really helping teach about Vancouver and other places in the greater British Columbia landscape.
In today's waterfowl podcast, episode 32, I read from a library book by Paul Born. Community Conversations had lots of interesting tips like future search and open space. This is something i had adopted, without knowing that it was already a practical technique or formal process. In my work over the last year by chairing the TAAC (Tahsis Age friendly Accessibly committee) I have been really trying to cultivate an attitude that is based on the 4 key principal created by Harrison Owen in the 1980's of 1. Who ever comes is the right people. 2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could happen. 3. Whenever it starts, it was mean to start. 4. When its over, its over. In reading this book it helped me to value and respect the process more. I see how the consultant the village had hired to produce the original age friendly report and further the transportation foccused one had used the cafe model to engage with public stakeholders in our community. During todays recording i read chapters 8 (food, movies and conversations) to the conclusion and resources including chapter 10 (building learning communities). The 9th chapter "giving voice to photos; a picture really is worth a thousand words especially if you are asked to explain it." Paul Born. I hope to continue using many of these engagement techniques as i stand for re-election on the UBCM executive at the upcoming virtual forum Obstacles to Opportunities in September, as small community representative. I will continue endeavour to advocate regarding financial mechanisms for fire protection in small, rural and remote places and serve the village of Tahsis in the last year of my first term. Thank you to the librarian who placed this book on a feature shelf for me to find at the jalna branch of the london public library. Thanks also to the listeners, featured guests and everyone else for being a part of the waterfowl flock.
In the 1950's, the federal government in the Beaufort delta at east 3 (the third location on the eastern shore of the Mackenzie river.) Moved Iklavic, a mixed community of western Arctic and Dene people from a village site, that had flood potential every year. 1958 Inuvik was born with prominently indigenous and mixed population currently at 3300 but gets up to 5000 with transient workers. Even growing Muslim and Philippines populations. I learned about midnight sun and the sunrise festival around January 6, when the days start to get longers after the winter dark. We talk machine sports, cabins, ice road, boat acess and the pride felt in squirreling away 12 pounds of wild blueberry during their high season. From subsistence hunting of caribou, moose and beluga whale (for blubber called Muktuk) to cranberries and Acpics also know as cloudberries. About the big community greenhouse that was once a curling rink that had a clear roof replacement. Creating recreational gardening opportunities, a veggie box or weekly CSA (community supported agriculture) and even interest in hydroponic seacan growing. Also grocery stores, bag or box and setting up meetings to talk reusable packaging. with managers and youth. At the end of the dempster highway, its accessible during two seasons by road, yet given its a 16 hour drive people generally make only twice a year to to stock up. I learned about NTPC (Northwest territory power corporation) how energy is the biggest expense per household ( 600-700$ a month for power plus 900-1500 for gas not to mention internet and cable)and how the input is a limited supply of liquid natural gas and propane with diesel back ups. It's not on a big electricity grid but everything is produced right here and delivered via the Utildor, an award winning utility corridor. We shared stories about spoadic outages and setting up multiple backup systems. Funding partnerships have invested in batteries, panels for 35 households and 5 solar array on various businesses. There has even been some small scale economic development with the adoption of pellet boilers creating an opportunity for someone locally to get a grain truck to deliver pellets to peoples homes. After ten years of bureaucratic red tape they are able to get a wind project of a single turbine. We talked landfill scavenging, wildlife conflict, back hauling and even about my favorite divert cardboard pliot project to create eneegy from waste. I learned about ARI ( Aurora research institute) education projects, ground satellite stations, which recieve data from polar orbit. The industry lead advocacy to pursue the Mackenzie valley fibre line makes disseminating data downloaded from space able to easily be transfered to below the 60 parallel. Inuvik is a great example of place making, being plucky and perfectly situated on the planet for isolated immersion where we live, work, play and eat together.
Our 14th waterfowl featured guest, on our 30th episode, Donna McMahon explains to me that Gibson's and Sechelt are the main communities in her regional district. We chat about unrealistic expectations, those who move into rural areas for retirement and about the importance of asking questions with regards to available services. Water restriction, hospitals and the closest bus route being 1.5 km away to acess the handy dart. Many folks have driveways that these specialized buses cant turn around in, thus negating service delivery. I learned about highway 101, Pender harbour and the user groups of the BC transit bus or Langdale ferry system. We discussed hairy passes, steep stairs and areas with no shoulder, inaccessible bus stop due to deep ditches. Fire service and water supply come into play as part of a rural checklist because what might look suburban upon first glance can often be ripe with suprises of septic fields, private wells that dry out seasonally, no garbage pickup and deceiving mailing addresses. Small municipalities with dense populations on small footprints can often struggle with issues of adequately trained staff. We discuss our privileges, why training single mothers to be techicians for waste water treatment plants could lead to longer retention. Or how effective restorative justice projects are in small towns where things can get incredibly loud and too close to home. Also how 220 graduates could be insufficient to make post secondary education sustainable. Its an uphill battle to think about how to be invisible, avoid difficult, dangerous or frightening situations. How to best leaverage knowledge and negotiate safely. A delicate balance between citizen complaints, being tapped into non profit agencies and how diversity on the government level helps us not all make the same assumptions. Something she said that really stuck with me was that legislative requirements keep increasing and local governments are responsible without being in control.
Thanks so much to the author of Solved (from episode 16) which the waterfowl #podcast, featured on our previous platform for speaking with me today, about so many things. The upcoming COP26 in Glasgow, regional initiatives and the ever popular rural and urban climate realities. From immigration to Canada at 9 years of age to a "Rag and Bone" frugality we discuss how important it is to manage waste properly. With a background of using what you have, engagement with land and water or even gardening to grow your own food, its a rich life to be connected to nature. To the sustainable development and financing of heating systems not designed in the 1950's. We even talk about the municipal transportation infrastructure in Ethiopia. When is the moment we can afford it? How can we not? Exploring capacity concerns of each district's systems and moving towards zero emmisions, seperating out compost and investing in group benifits, like the pipes under the road that carry cold water and steam to the hospital, city hall and Queen's park. The city of Toronto has a 93% sucess rate for diverting the heaviest part of the garbage system, which helps us all to better realize our consumer responsibilites. Geothermal loops that can heat and cool 20-30 homes, small scale wind and modern energy grid scale storage are ways we can move away from expensive diesel back ups. Diligence and creativity are needed to be the best custodians we can be for the incredibly beautiful places.
Learn, express, activate and demonstrate. Grow and experience the world around us. Being what is needed includes an interest in getting better. Educational technology and the tools, forms, figures, shapes and colours we are working with. Having a core attitude of inclusion and living by the motto of "do better, be better." This discussion is part examination of outliers attitude, enthroned power brokers mixed with a spoken word poetry award winner and two time tedx talker. From Douglas College to a $12000 bequest made by Robert Sutherland which allowed Queens university to remain independent. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. I learned so much, like Whitby is the 20th largest municipality in Canada. Also about the relationship that lead to the appointment of the secretary of war in the colonies. Other names like Jeffery Canada, Captain Meres, Governor Simcoe, Henry Dundas, William Wilberforce, Egerton Ryerson, John A Macdonald, George Floyd, Chloe Cooley and the Act to limit slavery in upper Canada. History teaches us a lot about ourselves, past and future. To wade thru consolidated gains and lived experiences to find examples for people of good will during times of social upheaval and changes. Sincere gratitude to Greg for his work which explores the many ways we all listen, effectively communicate and own the voice we share.
This episode is both a throwback to 1999 and a projection into the future of west coast culture and maritime excellence. In my family, we are so lucky, to hear stormy tales of the west coast and what it is like to be a tug boat captain from tofino. Over dinner conversation at granny sue's we get to hear uncle Ron (granny's boyfriend) talk about travelling the world by sea and air. He can navigate by the wind on his cheek. He advocates for autism education and identifies as an "aspie". But also so much more. He delivers papers in academic and industrial circles and meticulously crafts the details of custom model tugs from his home office. Hand painted finishing touches dry on sticks, special adhesive beside the drinks in the fridge. A trip to our grandmothers house means we watch the salt spring island ferry do its rounds over homemade pavlova, the dessert named after a ballerina, while discussing techniques for reading the sky. In the backyard they have a pond to do remote controlled experiments and run the boats, as they say. We also enjoy picking raspberries, feeding the coy and going to the dog park or the seaside.
I was asked to prepare a brief bit about compassion. As I researched this topic, i began to see it and it's inverse everywhere, as if I was magnetized towards noticing. To share my hopeful dream of inclusive and diverse ways, with which we can connect in our ever evolving humanity. Sometimes it is in only by examining uncompassionate circumstances that we can understand how the absence is how to grasp what we are missing and what we are capable of. Thats how we can all understand love, and its many meanings. By investing time and investigating the lack and loneliness we are capable of, in the varied details of our lives. In our sacrifices and vulnerable hearts we imagine a future with compassionate leaders, civic and civil role models, in a long chain of contributing continuations. The picture is of Ricki's choice "good food box" that was delivered to my door by the wonderful ms moore. Thanks for giving what you can, to food security in our remote outpost. I am very grateful for your time & talent.
Rather than list all the things we talked about in this, the first hour long episode of the waterfowl podcast, I will simply copy the blurb from the back book cover from daugthers of copper woman from harbour publishing. Hope you enjoy our chat, i know i did. Thanks for listening, Xoxo; smf In this retelling of northwest coast native creation myths, Anne Cameron has woven togethere the lives of legendary anc historical characters to create a sublime image of the social and spiritual power of women. The book was a groundbreaking best seller when the first edition appeared in 1981 and became an underground classic, selling more than 200,000 copies in many languages. At the heartof this new edition is the entire text of the original but with important additions. In the years since Daughters of Copper woman went out of print , the author has added fresh material and a new preface. The result is a new complete version of a book that has touched a nerve in readers throughtout the world. "The oral traditions committed to print here preserve their simplicity of theme and directness of expression. They lose nothing of the sense of inherent wisdom, courage and foresight characterized in the society of woman from Vancouver island." The guardian. "The book is something of a marvel, certainly sn enhancement, an uplifting revelation. Cameron's voice is prophetic, her talents mature and powerful." Ottawa citizen. "Cameron's work compels attention, calling out for social justice and spiritual healing." Quill & Quire. Anne Cameron is the author of Dreamspeaker, a film that wonseven film awards and the Gibson Award of literature. She has published more than 30 books, many of them bestsellers, including novels, stories, poems and the legends for children and adults, and she writesscripts for film and radio. www.harbourpublishing.com
http://metchosinmuse.ca/pdf/2021/MMuse-Jan21.pdf (bottom of page 11) welcome to the green Antler's #waterfowl podcast. This is episode #24 but the #first on this #Anchor platform. Sincere gratitude to 15 year old Colin Sparks from metchosin, who has been so generous with his time and ideas. We met virtually at the VICC youth climate forum hosted on may 8. We were in the same breakout room and have been talking since about concerns and goals. He talks about the relaxing beauty of trees, thinking more than 2 feet in front of you and taking agressive action against global warming, that is based in science and spares no expense. He shares about heat bubbles in urban environment, green roofs, rain gardens and how hospitals with views of trees promote healing and respite. It boggles the mind that sensitive ecosystems and habitat are reduced to municipal tangible natural assets with little respect for the bigger picture of how the unique environment here on Vancouver island is part of a something more globally significant.
https://www.spreaker.com/show/4540252 archive What started as a way for me to use media to reach out to small communities in a global pandenic has evolved into exploring the world from my green Antler homestead in the village of tahsis. In our first 25 episodes, spread out over 2 platform's we have had loads of interesting guests. Some of them are from political circles like our first guest Cyra Yukus of Warfield. We chatted with Mark Gisborne director at large of the AVICC executive and electorial area representative for the quathet region. We have heard from mayor Gaby Wickstrom of Port mc Neill and 4th term city councillor, Arjun Singh of Kamloops. Also Trish Mandewo, who I know from her work on the ubcm executive but is also part of Synergy on Boards. Plus our north island MLA Michelle Babchuk about accessibly improvements of benches and shelters. Yet sometimes its a decidedly more local take with #tahsistalent Patricia Rice, Juanita Dulong and Anne Cameron. And lastly we featured Alex Lidstone with Climate caucus and Colin Spark of Metchosin who spoke about 2030 climate goals and the youth foum held virtually on may 8. Its been a fun journey that finds me suprised and humbled by so much. Other days I just read a chapter from a book or talk about things i am trying to understand better. Thanks for listening and going on this journey with me. Yours from the rainforest, smf