Sep 30, 20207 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...
Sep 28, 20203 min read
THE UTERUS COLLECTOR
Earlier this month, multiple human rights organizations (Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human...
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...
Aug 15, 202013 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 14, 20207 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 5, 20203 min read
KIMMERER ON LANGUAGE
READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...
Mar 22, 20201 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...
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...