Tree Planters: A podcast about change for a better world

By Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition

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Episodes: 47

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We live in a world running out of space, resources, and time. There are solutions. We can build a better world - a world that is fair, healthy, and prosperous. But this requires transformative change. Why Tree Planters Podcast you ask? Well, there's a great proverb that goes as follows:“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”We feel there's a scarcity of tree planters in positions of power these days. Each month we look at problems and solutions relating to how we live in modern society, including those of sprawl and associated consumption patterns and behaviour, climate change, habitat degradation and species loss, community development and empowerment, knowledge of and connection to place, leadership and accountable governance, among others.We welcome you to join us on our journey. Please don't hesitate to connect with us if you have suggestions or questions.

Episode Date
Minesing to Matchedash — Sandy Agnew and Lynne Melnyk
Dec 13, 2025
What’s Happening with Ontario’s Drinking Water Rules? — Theresa McClenaghan
Nov 26, 2025
The Art of Reconciliation Project, Phase 3 - Mary Lou Meiers
Nov 24, 2025
The Art of Reconciliation Project, Phase 2 - Mary Lou Meiers
Nov 05, 2025
TRC Call To Action #83 - Mary Lou Meiers
Oct 22, 2025
Watershed Security— Andrew McCammon
Oct 07, 2025
Truth and Reconciliation, 10 Years On — Jeff Monague
Sep 30, 2025
What Kind of Emergency Do We Really Have in Barrie? — Jennifer van Gennip
Sep 16, 2025
What's the Future Like for the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition? — Jonathan Scott
Sep 09, 2025
What's Happening with the Greenbelt Review?
Sep 02, 2025
15-Minute Cities — Ray Tomalty
Aug 26, 2025
What's Happening with Wasaga Beach? — Ted Crysler
Aug 19, 2025
A Life in Politics, from Community Organizing to the Premier's Office — Kathleen Wynne
Aug 12, 2025
Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories — Dr. Alison Meek
Jul 29, 2025
Farming, Youth, and the Future — Jacob Keary Moreland
Jul 22, 2025
The Mailbag Edition - Adam, Margaret, and Amrit.
Jul 08, 2025
Looking Back at a Career in Environmental Activism — Claire Malcolmson
Jun 17, 2025
The Grassroots Fight to Protect the Oak Ridges Moraine, with Debbe Crandall and Robert Brown
Jun 13, 2025
Bill 5 and Advocating for the Local — Taylor Nicole
Jun 04, 2025
Living on the Oro Moraine, with Virginia Gingras
May 27, 2025
The Tree Planters Re-Boot, and Lessons from a Life of Leadership in the NGO World — David Jeffery
May 20, 2025
In Conversation with Catherine McKenna
May 14, 2024
State of the Lake, with Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition's Claire Malcolmson
Oct 30, 2023
The Corruption Episode! (On the Greenbelt Land Take-Outs, and more...)
Oct 16, 2023
September 2023: Greenbelt Public Forum
Sep 13, 2023
December 2022 - Bill 23, attack on the Greenbelt, and more.
Dec 09, 2022
October 24th Election Episode
Oct 19, 2022
Stop Sprawl Orillia, with guest Madeleine Fournier.
Mar 25, 2022
Tall Sprawl – what is it and why is it a problem for housing affordability and climate action?
Feb 23, 2022
The Year That Was, and the Year To Be (Maybe?)
Jan 20, 2022
Fighting Doug Ford's Highways - a local story.
Dec 15, 2021
Greenwashing - the marketing practice increasingly used by political leaders.
Oct 19, 2021
August 9, 2021 - Youth Take-Over: Empowering youth for a climate friendly future.
Aug 09, 2021
April 23, 2021 - Understanding Sprawl and Infrastructure in the Context of Ontario's Greenbelt, with Victor Doyle
Apr 23, 2021
October 9, 2020 - Ontario wants to build more highways, and we talk about it with Laura Bowman of Ecojustice
Oct 21, 2020
July 7, 2020 - Affordable housing and modern homelessness, with guest, Jennifer Van Gennip
Jul 17, 2020
June 19, 2020 - A just recovery, and we talk with Shak Edwards about her work mentoring youth, the value of humility and kindness, and the Black Lives Matter movement
Jun 23, 2020
June 5, 2020 - Black Lives Matter
Jun 06, 2020
May 29, 2020 - Pedestrian zones, MZOs, and a chat with Franz Hartmann, Chief Engagement Officer of the Small Change Fund and Green Future Fund
May 30, 2020
May 22, 2020 - Just Recovery, and talking Asset Based Community Development with Heather Keam from the Tamarack Institute
May 23, 2020
May 15, 2020 - COVID-19 Street Closures, Friends of Simcoe Forests, Rule by Fiat
May 16, 2020
Currents May 8, 2020 Tree Planters Podcast
May 08, 2020
The Fight to Protect the Waverley Uplands, the Cleanest Water in the World
Feb 03, 2020
One Earth One Vote with Tim Gray of Environment Defence Canada
Oct 09, 2019
Upstream/Downstream: Root Cause or BandAid?
Aug 08, 2019
Activism (What is it? Why do we do it?)
Jun 30, 2019
Why "Tree Planters"?
May 23, 2019