by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 8, 2016 | Our Changing World
by Lillian Ireland Presentation to the Surrey Teachers’ Association Convention 2016: “Changing Our Ways: Weaving Threads of Truth and Reconciliation Throughout Our Practice” As children, Rob and I spent a lot of time outside. It was normal to spend...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jul 7, 2016 | Developing Resilience, Our Changing World
by Stan Hirst The Suzuki Elders’ Educational and Community Engagement Working Group have identified food security as one of several focuses for its ongoing educational programme. Two salons on the subject have been held in recent months (summarized at this link...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 15, 2016 | Our Changing World
by Stan Hirst It is surely one of the worst things that can happen to us – to be uprooted from the place we live in, and forced by violence or disaster to flee for our survival: in other words to become refugees. As we head into spring the news about Syrian...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 29, 2016 | Developing Resilience, Our Changing World
by Stan Hirst The question of food security has long been an item of debate amongst the Suzuki Elders. Based as we are in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, we often hear concerns over Canada’s exposure to impacts to the food supply system from factors such as...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 26, 2016 | Our Changing World
by Stan Hirst Genetically-engineered crops and foods derived from them have been in commercial production for just under 20 years. That’s a surprisingly brief period considering the intensity of the debates and the assessments that have raged around their...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jul 26, 2015 | Advocacy, Our Changing World
by Stan Hirst Pope Francis, 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, has set the cat amongst the pigeons. On 18 June 2015 he formally presented his second encyclical to the world at a news conference in the Vatican. Entitled “Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care...
