Sep 2, 20215 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...
Aug 18, 20211 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...
Jul 22, 20210 min read
Apr 29, 202111 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...
Jan 3, 20214 min read
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...
Sep 13, 20203 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...
Feb 22, 20202 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 10, 20205 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...
Dec 11, 20199 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...
Nov 23, 20192 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...