TED Talk Thursday: Poverty, Crime, And Greenhouse Gas Emissions
From TEDx Manitoba is Shaun Loney, founder and Executive Director at BUILD Inc. and Warm Up Winnipeg where he leads an innovative approach to promote social enterprise as a no-cost…
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Summer of 2012: North Americans Begin to Harvest Climate Chaos They’ve Sown
A friend and newly graduated family physician told us a story about a young man who came to his clinic for medical advice. The young man was having a hard…
Meatless Monday Thoughts: The Stinky Circle of Life
One of the problems in our industrialized, heavily urbanized North American society is the huge disconnect between our food system, and the cycle of life and death that nearly every…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
* Yes, President Eisenhower was a Republican.
Saturday At The Movies
The woman who posted this video of a baby hummingbird’s first flight a few days ago wrote: Anna’s Hummingbird Baby sits next to the nest for the first time (in…
The Climate Crisis: It’s Time To Take Back The Land
Dr. Vandana Shiva – physicist, ecologist, activist, author, and founder of Navdanya (a movement for biodiversity conservation) on the most important work of our times: * VandanaShiva.org
Climate Crisis: Humanity At Its Finest?
Humans are such complicated creatures. We are wreaking havoc on a global scale because of big-is-better, greed-is-good mentality that dominates most nations and corporations (combined with an “it’s too hard…
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
It’s a warm July 4th morning here in northern Ontario, but looking at the news these days makes me think that this is one of the best places in North…
Extreme Weather Blasts U.S.: “The Sun Felt Like Fire On Our Skin”
In North America, we are starting to experience the global climate disruption that results from dumping more heat-trapping carbon dioxide molecules into the earth’s atmosphere; and it ain’t fun. The…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth, “you owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky.” ~Hafiz
Saturday At The Movies
An amazing story of best friends, a man and a crocodile:
Canadian Government To Refugees: You’re On Your Own
A week ago I was attending my last day of class at the Canadian School of Peacebuilding. The 15 students in my “Speaking Up, and Being Heard” class on citizen…
ExxonMobil Response to Extreme Weather Events Linked To Climate Change: Adapt
* Compare Tillerson’s response to what super-scientists Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan have to say about a destabilized climate from unchecked fossil fuel emissions: “The ‘hell’ of Venus an important…
Colorado’s Burning, Sicamous is Flooding: Connect The Climate Change Dots
* The flooding in Minnesota and British Columbia, the out-of-control fires in Colorado, the intensifying drought in the U.S. Midwest, are just a few of the indications that our climate…
TED Talk Tuesday
Nancy Duarte’s TED Talk about how to give an inspiring speech, and about following your dreams: * Duarte.com
Enbridge’s Slick New Ad Campaign Flounders
I spent last week taking an intensive course in citizen advocacy at the Canadian School of Peacebuilding in Winnipeg. It was a great week – I learned a lot and…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Time is not on our side. The longer we wait, the more assured our destruction becomes. The future, if we remain passive, will be wrested from us by events. Our…
Health Warning Attached To Rio+20 Text: If You Care For The Future Of This Planet, This Document Will Make You Sick
Here in Canada, it’s hard to tell that there is even an Earth Summit happening in Rio De Janeiro at all. A quick scan of the major papers, from one…
Rio+20: Our Leaders Toy With Us
The Rio+20 conference was officially launched yesterday, where world leaders – minus some heavy hitters like US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel,…