by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 23, 2019 | Advocacy, Developing Resilience, Green Perspective, Our Changing World
by Josef Kuhn & Ray Travers Climate change, unhealthy ecological and economic systems, and human conflict require a fresh approach to business and government in the twenty-first century. A rapidly growing number of Canadians and like-minded people in many...
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 16, 2019 | Advocacy, Personal Reflections
by Stan Hirst The Suzuki Elders trace their existence back to 1996 when a “Council of Elders” was established under the umbrella of the David Suzuki Foundation. The details of this are given elsewhere on this site. Some four years later we reinvented ourselves as the...
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 13, 2019 | Seeking Clarity
by Jonardon Ganeri In European societies, knowledge is often pictured as a tree: a single trunk – the core – with branches splaying outwards towards distant peripheries. The imagery of this tree is so deeply embedded in European thought-patterns that every form of...
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 5, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Personal Reflections
by Michael Ruse I was raised as a Quaker, but around the age of 20 my faith faded. It would be easiest to say that this was because I took up philosophy – my lifelong occupation as a teacher and scholar. This is not true. More accurately, I joke that having had one...
by suzukiwebmaster | Oct 28, 2019 | Our Changing World
by Peter Forbes A lazy buzz phrase – ‘Is this the new normal?’ – has been doing the rounds as extreme climate events have been piling up over the past year. To which the riposte should be: it’s worse than that – we’re on the road to even more frequent, more extreme...
