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 22, 2019 | Book Reviews, Our Changing World, Personal Reflections
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. Penguin Random House. 372pp Oxford-educated lecturer in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yuval Noah Harari established his credentials with two bestsellers. Sapiens was a reflection of mankind’s...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 18, 2019 | Book Reviews, Developing Resilience, Our Changing World
They have come and gone: the COP 24 meetings, the holidays, Solstice, Hanukkah, the start of the new year. Life goes on, and our lives are unfolding, but how? Put it this way: what are we living: fear or hope? Hope gets bad press in some spiritual circles — there are...
by suzukiwebmaster | Dec 17, 2018 | Advocacy, Developing Resilience, Green Perspective, Our Changing World, Personal Reflections, Seeking Clarity
by Stan Hirst The following is a lightly edited reprint of a post which first appeared on this site in July 2012 (pre-Harvey, pre-Irma, pre-California fires, pre-Trump, pre-COP 21, pre-COP 24). In the Blogmaster’s humble opinion it deserves a rerun....
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 28, 2018 | Our Changing World, Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems
by Stan Hirst It has never been said better than by Carl Sagan in his speech at Cornell University in 1994. “…… you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The...
