

SCALE AND PERSPECTIVE
Someone once asked: If I’m not mistaken, you are arguing for humanity banding together to protect ourselves from a plethora of potential...
Feb 24, 202216 min read


ORGANIC? MAYBE NOT...
It's easy to find folks promoting organic. Abundant are claims that organic farming reduces environmental pollutants and greenhouse gas...
Feb 20, 20223 min read


THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Conversations about carbon dioxide and energy have been unavoidable within environmental circles and are increasingly so in the media. In...
Jan 5, 202234 min read


FAIRY CREEK or AVATAR?
Acquaintances of mine share video after video, post after post, and slogan after slogan that, as far as I’m able to discern, rewrite all...
Sep 3, 20215 min read


WHY NOT BE THE ALTERNATIVE?
Dear Green Party of Canada, What if you dropped the misinformation, at least for official statements on key platform items. During...
Aug 19, 20211 min read


Jul 23, 20210 min read


NO SENSE OF PLACE or HOW TO ERASE HISTORY AND CULTURE
In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...
Apr 30, 202111 min read

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SPECIES [NOT] AT RISK
Somehow polar bears became the symbol of climate change and species extinction. It makes some sense how this creature arrived at it...
Jan 3, 20214 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


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


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


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


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


TODAY'S CLIMATE RANT
It's not like we haven't been up against ecological catastrophe many times before in my short life. But in the past we just did it...
Aug 17, 20151 min read