Build your resilience!
We need to prepare for ecological collapse – by Fred Bass – Ecological collapse is both threatening and overwhelming. Massive species loss, overuse of natural resources, ocean acidification, failing economic…
For what purpose?
Canada’s weapons spending flies under the election radar – by William S. Geimer – As governments of every stripe come and go, the quaintly named Department of National Defence (DND)…
Arne Boye Hansen (1951 – 2019)
– by Maret Christiansen – One day we will no longer be called to quantify nature and put a dollar value on Ancient Trees, Mountains, and Wildlife – from Carmanah:…
Redefining protein quality
NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina A new paper published by the American Society for Nutrition makes the case for modernizing the definition of protein quality. This is a welcome development. The…
IPCC report flags diet and land-use changes to curb climate chaos
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki Land and agriculture are critical components in the climate crisis. According to a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, land use – including agriculture…
Surveillance capitalism
– by Shoshana Zuboff – art by Anthony Freda, anthonyfreda.com When we think about capitalism in the 19th and 20th centuries, the titanic struggles of those eras, of that industrial…
Vancouver under the influence
– by Elizabeth Murphy – The same outside influences established under the former Vision-dominated council continue to drive Vancouver city policy The results of the last civic election in October…
Synthetic turf – not supported by science as a safe solution
– by Marlene Cummings – At Vancouver’s Trillium Park, just a short walk west from the calming vegetable plots, trees and wildflowers of Strathcona and Cottonwood Community Gardens, stand two…
Victory gardening – the ultimate rebellion
– by Bruce Mason – Awakened people wonder what individual actions will most impact the climate change ecocide that is killing life on our planet. We take tiny, solitary steps…
Space ain’t the place
– by Geoff Olson – We have to deal with our crap in the here and now Earth First! We’ll wreck the other planets later – bumper sticker The respected…