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 | Aug 30, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Seeking Clarity
by Jordan Pennells Life pits the order and intricacy of biology against the ceaseless chaos of physics. The second law of thermodynamics, or the thermodynamic arrow of time, states that any natural system will always tend towards increasing disorder. Biological ageing...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 15, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Rules of Engagement, Seeking Clarity
by Don Marshall and David MacQuarrie 2019 Salon on Climate Change Conversations The Suzuki Elders presented a Salon on February 28, 2019 on climate change conversations. The important byline was “How to have them without everyone walking out of the room”. Attended by...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 20, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Green Perspective, Opinions, Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems
by Anna Grear How can the law account for the value of complex, nonhuman entities such as rivers, lakes, forests and ecosystems? At a time of runaway climate change, when the Earth’s biosphere is on the brink of collapse and species extinctions are accelerating, this...
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 | 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...
