Tag: aboriginal culture
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Canada Fails
An email received (20190621) from The Climate Mobilization, an organization I support, has this description of the Canadian response to climate disruption: “Canada fails on Climate Emergency.“ This portrayal is consistent with my own experience of Canadian and international politics. The grassroots Climate Emergency Movement in Canada has been a global leader, with 404 governments…
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Climate Vision
I think this animated video is important because we need a viable vision of the future. Like most US productions, it is orientated to the US — the message needs to be global. We only have a few years in which to transform, so a video like this brings the message home — we can…
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Witnessing The Process
I’ve just returned from a planning session on how to resist the Kinder-Morgan pipeline expansion in the Vancouver area; typical of me, in my uncertainty as to how to contribute, I was mainly witnessing the process. For those unfamiliar with the Kinder-Morgan project, it is a $7.4-billion construction project of pipeline expansion over a 1,100-kilometer…
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The Struggle To Engage
I have not written in my blog now for over three months. For me, it has been a major struggle to engage, initially due to travel requirements but especially so after the American election. Since that time, I have been pondering my difficulty. My struggle has not been acedia per se (see previous posts beginning…
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Another Way, Needing Integration
In the past few weeks, I have been traveling through beautiful country (New Mexico, Arizona, Grand Canyon, and Utah, amongst other areas), with stunning views. With such vistas, it is easy for me to connect to a sense of grandeur and mystery, of questioning as to how did this world became so beautiful, of what…
Awakening From Your Anger 