

VANCOUVER HOMELESSNESS COUNT
Total: 2005: 1,364 (Sheltered 773, Unsheltered 59) 2010: 1,715 (Sheltered 1,294, Unsheltered 421) 2015: 1,746 (Sheltered 1,258,...
Nov 19, 20202 min read


THESIS - CHAPTER ONE - ENVIRONMENT and EDUCATION
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed” – Carl Sagan,...
Nov 9, 202022 min read


THESIS - INTRO, METHOD, METHODOLOGY
Introduction I entered the Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication (MAEEC) program at Royal Roads University because...
Oct 1, 20207 min read


THE UTERUS COLLECTOR
* SEE UPDATE Earlier this month, multiple human rights organizations (Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for...
Sep 29, 20204 min read


WHERE ARE WE AT?
I just read an article titled “Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report.” It’s published on the website of...
Sep 14, 20203 min read


EVERYTHING SPEAKS: MEDITATIONS ON THE ANIMISM OF LANGUAGE
David Abram and Robin Wall Kimmerer write of the tremendous power of language to shape perception and, therefore, our relationships and...
Aug 16, 202013 min read


COMPOUNDING THE TAYLOR TRAGEDY
I can't stop reading and hearing a range of reporters and podcasters on CBC and elsewhere repeat a blatantly false story across all their...
Aug 15, 20207 min read


WOLF!
"Wolf!" cried the little shepherd boy. "WOLF!" "There ain't no wolf," barked the townsfolk. "Go away!" booed some folks. "There's no...
Aug 8, 20205 min read


KIMMERER ON LANGUAGE
READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...
Aug 6, 20203 min read


THE VIDS: AN ORIGIN STORY
On Friday March 30, 1979 there was a significant anthrax outbreak among the population of Sverdlovsk. Local officials and scientists...
Mar 23, 20201 min read


GAIA
Our reading offers us that, "The ability to recover from mass extinctions is strong evidence for Gaia." This idea still strikes me like a...
Feb 22, 20202 min read


INTUITION
Intuition came up in several recent school readings and class discussions. I don’t understand this conversation or know where to go with...
Feb 10, 20205 min read


THE HESCHEL-ORR PARADOX
A legend of the environmental world and key author in our introductory readings, David Orr, writes, “...philosophers have agreed with...
Dec 11, 20199 min read


"FUNCTIONALLY EXTINCT"
It's happening again. A Forbes article, citing the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF), is reporting that due to recent fires in Australia...
Nov 23, 20192 min read


"LONG BEFORE COLUMBUS"
There's this document that's been making the rounds: 10 Pieces of Evidence That Prove Black People Sailed to the Americas Long Before...
Nov 21, 201925 min read


TWO PERCENT?
Whenever I'm involved in conversations about intersex- or trans-related issues someone conflates trans with intersex and notes that one...
Oct 13, 20196 min read


IF BANANAS COULD TALK
PEOPLE: “Folks today expect bananas all year round!” BANANAS: “Oh Humans, we Bananas are not a seasonal crop. That's the first thing you...
Oct 4, 20191 min read


CLIMATE MARCHES or THE PRAXIS OF NOT GIVING A FUCK
How do we confuse ourselves less, avoiding getting things catastrophically wrong and making things worse for everyone? Could it require...
Sep 27, 20195 min read


WHY SHOULD IT SEEM?
PERSON 1: If we trust our senses, and just use our basic intelligence, we can tell that we live in a big, big world. Like, if I climb a...
Sep 26, 20194 min read


FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS EAT INSECTS
Somehow we're still on the insect-eating thing. Now we're on to a group project. For this project, we started by adopting the perspective...
Sep 23, 20193 min read


I HAVE QUESTIONS
For an assignment prompt we were asked to read the following article about the nutritional and ecological value and ethical superiority...
Sep 15, 20198 min read


THE AMAZING AMAZON-AGEDDON
As ever, we are being played. We may wish to ask why and by whom. Everywhere I turn I'm being told there are "unprecedented wildfires in...
Aug 24, 20191 min read


HONEYBEES AND HUMANITY
There's a meme that's been going around for a decade or more that I'd like to see end. There are many variations but they typically...
Jul 28, 20194 min read


BISON
Bison came up in conversation today as an example of a tremendous, almost miraculous, conservation victory. (Also, winner of best...
Jul 26, 20198 min read