by suzukiwebmaster | Feb 7, 2020 | Opinions, Personal Reflections
by Stan Hirst I admit it. I chose the title of this post because of its alliterative appeal. Just a little whimsy to brighten an otherwise grey and depressing North Shore winter scene staring at me on the other side of the window. Grey scene leads to a gloomy theme....
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 13, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Opinions, Our Changing World, Personal Reflections
by Diana Ellis I spent some time this morning thinking about what I, as a concerned world citizen, am learning from this year’s Australian bushfires. There are three sets of people I know who live there – in Sydney, Melbourne, and in a small town further...
by suzukiwebmaster | Dec 17, 2019 | Book Reviews
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer Hamish Hamilton | 2019 | 272 pages This is one of those books which deals with a divisive subject (climate change) and then creates yet more discord amongst readers because of the...
by suzukiwebmaster | Oct 28, 2019 | Our Changing World
by Peter Forbes A lazy buzz phrase – ‘Is this the new normal?’ – has been doing the rounds as extreme climate events have been piling up over the past year. To which the riposte should be: it’s worse than that – we’re on the road to even more frequent, more extreme...
by suzukiwebmaster | Oct 12, 2019 | Opinions, Our Changing World
by Stan Hirst The 2019 Canadian federal election is in full swing. The media overflows with headlines, photo ops, emphatic one-liners and the occasional blooper. Politics as usual. Promises, promises. Goodies for everyone, especially the underprivileged, the middle...
