by suzukiwebmaster | Feb 8, 2021 | Advocacy, Our Changing World
by Paul Strome Most people who live in a ‘free country’ like Canada believe they have the right to a healthy environment. We feel we are entitled to all that is imbedded in that philosophy – clean water, fresh air, healthy food, etc. Those of us who live in a...
by suzukiwebmaster | Dec 30, 2020 | Advocacy, Our Changing World
by Paul Strome When we lived in the Arctic during the 1970s and 80s I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time out on the land with the Inuit. Living beside Moonshine Fjord on Baffin Island afforded me the opportunity to study polar bears in almost every season of...
by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 12, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Green Perspective, Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems
by Stan Hirst A fine alliterative title, but it presents a problem in visioning. Just what does a trillion trees actually look like? What size area would, or could they cover? The story starts with Kenyan Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) who, while serving in the National...
by suzukiwebmaster | May 20, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Green Perspective
Creating a renewed sense of place, block by block by Erlene Woollard and Patricia Plackett “Lord, make me pure, but not yet!” No doubt when St. Augustine uttered this prayer in about 380 AD he was not thinking about being pure in the sense of his ‘carbon footprint’....
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinions, Rules of Engagement
by Fiacha Heneghan ‘We’re doomed’: a common refrain in casual conversation about climate change. It signals an awareness that we cannot, strictly speaking, avert climate change. It is already here. All we can hope for is to minimise climate change by keeping global...