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 | Apr 23, 2019 | Advocacy, Book Reviews, Rules of Engagement
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua Penguin Random House | 2018 | 304 pages Amy Chua is probably best known through social media as the Tiger Mom following widespread publication of her 2011 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. More...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 27, 2019 | Advocacy, Opinions
by Marilyn Krislock Pomeroy ‘Pray for Florida’ pops up on my Facebook page repeatedly the last couple of days. While I wish all the good folks in the path of that hurricane safe passage through it, I’m not much into praying. If I was so inclined, however, I would...
by suzukiwebmaster | Feb 25, 2019 | Advocacy, Book Reviews, Developing Resilience, Our Changing World
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells Penguin Random House LLC | 2019 | 320 Pages Climate change has become a significant rallying point for the global environmental movement. In Canada in 2018 there were 87 listed environmental groups and...
by suzukiwebmaster | Feb 11, 2019 | Advocacy, Our Changing World, Rules of Engagement
by Diana Ellis and Stan Hirst In the fall of 2018 David Suzuki dropped by the monthly meeting of the Council of Elders in Vancouver, B.C. Some weeks earlier the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had issued its IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 8, 2019 | Advocacy, Green Perspective, Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems
by Stan Hirst The year 2018 is now history and we are left with memories, unfulfilled intentions and a lot of unread books. By one estimate some 400,000 new books hit the market in North America every year, so its little wonder I am a bit behind. For me the ones...
