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Thinkers Series 2: Marian Lucas-Jefferies

Thinkers Series 2: Marian Lucas-Jefferies
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Marian is a 2004 UNB Nursing and a 2006 Atlantic School of Theology Masters of Divinity graduate. She was ordained a priest in January 2007.

Marian currently serves as coordinator of the Diocesan Environment Network (DEN), Anglican Diocese of NS & PEI. DEN’s mission: To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth. She is a monthly columnist in the Diocesan Times and an active member of the Council of Canadians and For the Love of Creation, a national ecumencial group.

Marian served as the Anglican Church of Canada representative to Kairos Canada, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and on the board of Directors of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund. With a background in community and co-operative development locally and internationally, she worked in addiction services and with vulnerable people and has presented locally, regionally, nationally and internationally on food security, gender and environmental issues.   

Attendee of both the 2019 Indigenous and Faith Leaders Retreat on the Climate Crisis & 2023 Thinkers Reunion: From the Great Unraveling Towards a Great Turning. 

Thinkers Series 1: Regan Rosburg

Thinkers Series 1: Regan Rosburg
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Regan Rosburg is an Associate Professor at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (Lakewood, CO) and is the Artistic Director of Cayo Artist Residency.

Regan Rosburg is an interdisciplinary artist who weaves together science, psychology, history, and social engagement. With a passion for studying various ecosystems and biota, her work investigates not only the exquisite intelligence of ecology but also the causes and ramifications of over-consumption.

Regan attended both the 2017 Pugwash 60th Anniversary Retreat on Climate Change and the 2020 Atlantic Canada: Conversations on an Uncertain Future.

Thinkers Series Introduction: Bill Martin, Six Rivers Radio

Thinkers Series Introduction: Bill Martin, Six Rivers Radio
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Bill Martin founded Six Rivers News, Radio, and TV to serve the northern half of Cumberland County as a community dubbed Six Rivers to the Sea. Between 2017 and 2020, Bill attended four of the Thinkers Retreats on climate and nuclear crises. Bill has partnered with CLP to interview Thinkers from these past retreats for our Thinkers Series.

In this introductory interview, Bill Martin and Robert Cervelli, CLP Executive Director, spar back and forth about who is interviewing who, and why thinking about our human predicament is critical in these times.

Using Rich Data for Food Safety with Matthew Winchester

Using Rich Data for Food Safety with Matthew Winchester
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Matthew is Agriculture & Agribusiness entrepreneur and computer scientist with a passion for data. He is an Acadia University Alumni, based in Halifax and is the current CTO at FoodByte.

FoodByte is a software start-up that developed business-friendly software to help food processors and food exporters comply with new federal food safety regulations.

Additionality, Matthew assists companies navigate the journey of moving into food safety and helps to transition them into companies that use their manufacturing data to self improve. As Matthew says, “We live in a data-rich world and it only makes sense that we leverage it as a resource to enhance our own ventures.”

The FarmWorks Success and Localizing Food with Linda Best

The FarmWorks Success and Localizing Food with Linda Best
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Host Gillian Kerr engages in a lively conversation with Linda Best, Founder Director and Co-Chair of FarmWorks Investment Cooperative. FarmWorks receives tax-deductable investments each year from Nova Scotians. Over $5,200,000 of these funds have been provided to 152 food-related start-ups in the province. The organization is one of the best examples for increasing local food systems through local investment participation.

Wholistic Well Being: A New Look at Our Economy with Mark Anielski

Wholistic Well Being: A New Look at Our Economy with Mark Anielski
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Please join CLP as we talk to Mark Anielski. Mark is President and Chief Well-being Officer of Anielski Management Inc. an economic-consultancy specializing in the economics of happiness and well-being in Edmonton, Alberta. In the podcast he brings a unique and practical perspective to measuring progress and success. In his work he uses a model he developed called Genuine Wealth. We discuss the basis of orienting our lives towards a good life means measuring performance and progress in terms of conditions of well-being of mind, body, spirit and the natural environment.

“As Buckminster Fuller said how are we going to change a system by designing something more compelling than the current one.” (Mark Anielski)

Building regional prosperity through re-localization and community-based food systems

Building regional prosperity through re-localization and community-based food systems
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Justin Cantafio is the Executive Director at Farmers’ Markets of Nova Scotia and a Director on the Centre for Local Prosperity. He was integral to the planning and delivery of the Atlantic Canada Dig-In Food Systems Summit in November 2022. Justin is a passionate advocate of re-localization and a builder of regional prosperity through community-based food systems. Listen as he talks about the opportunities to change things and do right. He is a wellspring of optimism. 

Regenerative Foodsheds: Scaling Our Local Expectations with Philip Ackerman-Leist

Regenerative Foodsheds: Scaling Our Local Expectations with Philip Ackerman-Leist
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Philip Ackerman-Leist describes how regional foodsheds can be scaled from a systems network perspective, working ‘hand to hand’, giving examples from close to home and elsewhere.

Weaving Land, Marine and Indigenous Food Systems with Abra Brynne

Weaving Land, Marine and Indigenous Food Systems with Abra Brynne
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Abra Brynne describes the importance of rebuilding locally robust food systems in our current times.

Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) with Elder Albert Marshall

Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) with Elder Albert Marshall
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Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall explains the principles behind Etuaptmumk, or Two-Eyed Seeing, and its importance in today’s reality and the future of humanity.

The Charlottetown Legacy Garden with Phil Ferraro

The Charlottetown Legacy Garden with Phil Ferraro
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Join Phil Ferraro, Institute of Bio-regional Studies, as he describes the Charlottetown Legacy Garden. The gardens are a phenomenal success and likely the largest community garden in Atlantic Canada, with over 200 individual allotments and large areas of common food production which is donated to area non-profits.

Withdrawing with a questing mind and finding a period of grace with Gregory Heming

Withdrawing with a questing mind and finding a period of grace with Gregory Heming
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Gregory Heming describes the subtlety of slowing down, a daily contemplative flow of questing mind, the art of not knowing, and life and death.  He provides inspiration for us all towards finding an essential counterpoint to the chaotic, hectic insanity of our age.