All posts by Manda Aufochs Gillespie

Manda Aufochs Gillespie is a writer. She’s the author of the Green Mama series of books (https://thegreenmama.com/books/) and the publisher of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com. She is also a mother, neighbour, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) on Cortes Island.
Development, Housing

Folk U Reporter’s Roundtable: the Housing Crisis in rural/isolated and small communities

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(Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie; written version Roy L Hales)

Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable on CKTZ: where we go in-depth on today’s big issues from a small community perspective with the journalists that are researching and writing about them from within these communities. Today’s topic is the unique nature of the the Housing Crisis in rural/isolated and small communities.

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Rivers & Oceans

Reporter Roundtable: Fish farms and seaweed production

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In partnership with Cortes Community Radio & Cortes Currents, Folk U Radio offered its first Reporter Roundtable: Fish farms and seaweed production. 

The panel:

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Community

Folk U-The Social Dilemma: social media and your mental health

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Folk U 101: The Social Dilemma

The last year has transformed the way we work, play, learn, and interact by bringing more and more of our lives online.  Cortes Island‘s clinical therapist and our resident brain “professor” Hayley Newell discusses social media addiction, the new Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma,” our brains on social media, and what we are reaching for when we reach for our devices.

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