How to Have Enlightenment, Power (and Money) with Resilience Stories

by suzukiwebmaster | Oct 9, 2017 | Developing Resilience, Personal Reflections, Seeking Clarity

Easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 by Dan Kingsbury 1. It’s quite strange to be here on this planet with you, don’t you think? I consider it equally strange that, as much as I know about our world, I can never really know you or any other person for that matter. Yet we can...

Wildfires and climate change: seeking the facts through the haze

by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 6, 2017 | Developing Resilience, Our Changing World, Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems

by Stan Hirst Living under smoky skies every day is an uncommon experience for Vancouverites. The TV spectacle of thousands of people having to evacuate their homes and ranches in the interior of British Columbia as threatening forest fires advance is not so...

Coping with a changing world

by suzukiwebmaster | Jun 28, 2017 | Our Changing World, Personal Reflections, Seeking Clarity

[global, change, psychology, pessimism, optimism, attitude] by Stan Hirst I spent an hour or two idling along the Ambleside sea-wall this past week. Ships at anchor in a placed bay, azure blue sky overhead with the proverbial scudding white clouds, a pair of bald...

The B.C. salmon farming conundrum

by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 7, 2017 | Our Changing World, Seeking Clarity

An overview by Stan Hirst The 21st century has brought the planet an extraordinary share of environmental conundrums. Think ozone layer, climate change, outbreaks of vector-borne diseases and dumping of plastic litter on a global scale. What makes them...

Genetically engineered crops: discord in the public square

by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 16, 2016 | Opinions, Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems

by Stan Hirst In his recent book I’m right and you’re an idiot author James Hoggan describes the ‘public square’ as a literal and symbolic place where people meet to discuss important community matters and governance, and to participate in...

Toxic discourse in the public square – searching for common ground

by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 11, 2016 | Opinions, Rules of Engagement, Seeking Clarity

by Stan Hirst An overcast morning in August: the Suzuki Elders gathered at the Rivendell Retreat Centre on Bowen Island, B.C. to debate the recent book I’m Right and You’re an Idiot – The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How To Clean It Up. In the book author James...