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Future Mending Radio
Things could be better. Future Mending Radio profiles the people, organizations and businesses that are already building a better future. Clothing swaps, farmers’ markets, pay-it-forward restaurants, independent authors, repair cafes, DIY bike shops, sustainable chocolate shops and more.
Future Mending happens when we meet our daily needs in a way that saves money, improves our wellbeing and also strengthens healthy social systems -- instead of padding the profits margins of giant corporations.
In short, relaxing episodes, we'll seek out alternatives and explore them together.
Future Mending Radio
No Knives Allowed
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To celebrate spring, Matt visits Toronto's brand new billion dollar park. Biidaasige Park is beautiful, it's got birds, but it also solves a lot of long-standing problems.
Diverting flooding? Providing housing? Surfacing Indigenous histories? We'll be talking about all those things in this episode about an absurdly well-designed public park. Oh, and we'll also be time-travelling. And books.
Books in this Episode:
Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley
Kayanerenkó:wa -- The Great Law of Peace
Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry this Place
Other Sources:
https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/news/what-jelly-blob-tells-us-about-water-quality
Plus the great and glorious Wikipedia.
Music Credits:
'Epilogue' and 'Lights' by The Slow Motions. Used with permission of the artist.
‘Opening’ by Phillip Glass. Arr. by Karl Michelson. Performed by The Union Guitar Trio. Used with permission of the artists.
Union Guitar Trio on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/2E0NidLjIzBAO7t0BBPFUD
Union Guitar Trio on Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-union-guitar-trio/1592543833
'In Time Like This' by DJ Kensei and DJ Quietstorm. (The full set is amazing!)
Sounds and Samples:
Naming the Island and Park in the Port Lands: Ookwemin Minising and Biidaasige Park. City of Toronto.
Pigeons taking off.wav by Glaneur de sons -- https://freesound.org/s/104954/
DVP Traffic Under Bridge.WAV by jakobthiesen -- https://freesound.org/s/97933/
Plus the same samples from our birds episode 'Swoop There it is"