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How Communities Bring Innovation to Town
For our final Deep Change Happy Hour episode before Alaina and I take a summer break, we’re bringing the conversation back to where we began – talking about how change comes to communities, both big and small, with ‘roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-it-done’ change-makers.
Lisa & Alaina Make a Podcast! Here’s Why We’re Happy to Be Here
This is the story of what happens when a former politician (Alaina) and a former newspaper journalist (me) walk into a coffee shop and somehow end up recording a podcast. We were brought together by a mutual friend (hi Paula) because we both want to build purpose-led...
Creating Safe and Welcoming Spaces for Seniors to Age in Place
Hi Dad! Hi Mom! This episode’s for you, for me and for everyone who wants the best for the seniors we know and love in our communities. As I write this my octogenarian parents are sheltering in place in their home, learning to order groceries online and to join Zoom...
Eco-Tourism Connects Us to the Land, Air, Rivers and Seas
Episode #4 Deep Change Happy Hour is about Staycation Summer 2020 and how now’s a great time to invest our time and resources in learning and telling new stories about our relationship to the earth and the people with whom we share this land we all call home
Learning in a Socially Distant World
Episode #3 Deep Change Happy Hour is about how to help our kids, teens and young adults stay connected with their curiosity, goals and critical thinking about the world around them School’s officially out this Friday but really that just means the kids aren’t having...
How are we teaching the children?
What I learned parenting and watching my child navigate a socially distant education system
Food Feeds Community: Deep Change Happy Hour, Our Second Episode
Join us Friday on Facebook Live for a lunchtime chat about how to cultivate, harvest and savour the best of our local land, sky, rivers and sea — with a live cooking demonstration!
How to walk the walk of community-led innovation
I can’t remember the last time I waited over an hour for anything in New Brunswick. One of the perks of living outside a big city is the absence of big crowds and the long lines they bring. But last Sunday afternoon my family and I did just that along with thousands...
Deep Change Happy Hour welcomes seven community innovators to our virtual Friday lunch table
We are super excited to welcome a septet of creative purpose-led community-anchored leaders to our first show.
Introducing the Deep Change Happy Hour
Deep Change Happy Hour kicks off Friday May 15th with six ‘roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-it-done’ people doing things differently in tourism, food production, design, theatre, business ownership models, media and the green economy
New Brunswick is a North American leader on Covid-19 recovery. Let’s not stop there.
New Brunswick is leading North America on Covid-19 recovery; let’s use this rare opportunity to take the lead on transitioning to a new economic, social and political age too. It might seem odd to think of this small, financially precarious province on Canada’s east...
We can thrive in place thanks to the ingenuity of non-profits and for-profits in our neighbourhoods
For two hours every Thursday I listen to my teen daughter laugh…and I exhale. Out here in New Brunswick we’re into our sixth week of the COVID-induced school break and the kids are beyond bored. They’re missing the routine of the school room and they are missing their...
Learning to build back better post-Covid-19 and beyond
It’s mid-April and up and down the length of New Brunswick people are in their homes self-isolating and watching the river. It’s the season of the spring thaw, or freshet as it’s known to river people, and the water is rising. How high and how fast it’ll rise depends...
Wicked Ideas is Best for the World
Sometimes in life it's the prepositions that matter. My company Wicked Ideas has been named a 2019 BCorp 'Best For the World' Changemaker honoree, which means I'm in the top 20 per cent of certified BCorps with the highest increase in our overall impact. BCorps...
Book Signings in Saint John Oct. 5 & 6
I wrote a book! New Brunswick Underwater tells the story of the province's historic 2018 spring flood in three parts. First, it charts what happened, when over those two weeks that the St. John River flooded its banks. Second, it tells the natural history and...
The Summer of our Great Retreat
Years from now we may look back at this summer as The Great Retreat of 2018. Bloomberg recently reported that lifestyle television networks such as TLC, HGTV and the Hallmark Channel, are gaining viewers as people turn away from the news of the day, with its anger,...
Stories Wanted! We’re writing a book about the 2018 St. John River Flood and wants to hear from you
Hey everyone! Exciting news over here at Wicked Ideas HQ. Photojournalist Michael Hawkins and I are going to be creating 'Mighty River', a book about the recent spring flood. The book, due out later this year from MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc, will feature images...
Indigenous youth raise their voices at the United Nations
Wolastoq Grand council chief Ron Tremblay is working toward accrediting his youth confederacy council and enable them to speak at the next UN Indigenous permanent forum. This year they presented at a side session, but that didn’t remove any of the conviction. “They...
Being audacious in mid-sized cities: Lisa’s TEDX UNB SJ talk
I'm been talking a lot lately about being audacious. It's what we're going to need to negotiate our way through the massive social, economic, political and ecological change we are experiencing. I am particularly interested in the development of community-led...
Finding the words: A Mi’kmaw language app helps Oscar reconnect
I’m at my mothers wake. My heart still feels shattered. I’m a shell of myself with no time to mourn, I’m still trying to make sure all the guests are taken care of. I have to make sure my elders don’t slip on the icy driveway and steps. My sogi Vina (aunt) says a...