

THESIS - CHAPTER THREE - A REINTRODUCTION
“Life without playing music is inconceivable for me… I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in...
Feb 5, 202165 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


WILL WE EVER HAVE A COVID VACCINE?
I’ve had nearly every common and exotic shot and oral immunization available. In my youth I was given all the typical ones nearly every...
Dec 29, 202014 min read


THESIS - CHAPTER TWO - AN INTRODUCTION TO DESCARTES
“It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament” – Pema Chödrön, one who knows the wisdom of no escape (Chödrön,...
Dec 14, 202015 min read


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


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