by suzukiwebmaster | Jul 21, 2018 | Advocacy, Developing Resilience, Green Perspective, Opinions, Rules of Engagement, Seeking Clarity
by Stan Hirst The Suzuki Elders have been at the environmental game for some 9 years now – gathering, talking, arguing, urging, advocating, educating, inspiring on and off, blogging and berating. As our website declares “we bring our voices, experiences and memories...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 15, 2018 | Advocacy, Developing Resilience, Rules of Engagement, Seeking Clarity
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Premiers Notley and Horgan: Re: Your meeting on Sunday regarding Kinder-Morgan Pipeline: This morning we woke up to the news that the herd of BC/Washington Woodland Caribou is now down to three females and close to...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 10, 2018 | Advocacy, Our Changing World, Rules of Engagement
by Bev Krush George Carlin’s classic stand-up routine on TV about the importance of ‘Stuff’ in our lives says it all. And he said it way back in 1986! We clearly have a growing problem with Stuff. With just 6% of the world’s population, North...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 11, 2018 | Meetings and Events, Rules of Engagement
Our world has become a more dangerous and unstable place. Civil security and stability have long been menaced by wars, military and territorial ambitions, and strong political and economic disparities. Within the last few decades new and increasingly menacing threats...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 26, 2017 | Developing Resilience, Our Changing World, Rules of Engagement
by Stan Hirst I’ve been pondering on three items these past weeks. The first one was an observation I made some two months ago while travelling through Argentina. Visiting the Iguazu Falls had been a firm item on my bucket list for more than 30 years, in fact...
by suzukiwebmaster | Oct 17, 2016 | Rules of Engagement
by Stan Hirst Some things are worth repeating. Like walking the Lynn Creek canyon on the North Shore in early winter when the grey rain keeps everybody else indoors. Like watching the flocks of band-tailed pigeons make their annual brief sojourn to my neighbourhood...