Cowichan Valley Citizen. Feeling marginalized now that you’ve retired? Dumped when you hit 70? Well, there’s absolutely no reason that you should. If you combine the experience of and time available to retirees with their being part of the demographic… Continue Reading →
The Guardian. What we have here, is the tragedy of the commons writ globally. “This is a crisis of culture and politics, not of science and technology.“ When you get down to it, the real problems lie with the perception… Continue Reading →
Nanaimo News Bulletin. If we set the issue of homelessness aside when we read this article, the inappropriateness of a higher level of government imposing its own self-defined “solutions” onto local problems without collaboration becomes immediately apparent. Were Ottawa to… Continue Reading →
Capital Daily. If it isn’t already obvious (and for some people it appears it isn’t), change is not only coming but inevitable. For our communities and cities to remain as they are today would take significantly more modification of human… Continue Reading →
BNN Bloomberg. Nothing may typify the mindset of being Canadian more than the inherent cultural view that our resources are unlimited. We see ourselves possessing enormous swathes of wilderness, endless forests and untamed rivers, boundless unmined wealth, and more water… Continue Reading →
By Don White. Well, I admit that was a surprise. If you watched the April 19 Nanaimo Council meeting you saw that the members who were previously most opposed to taking local concerns to higher levels of government had rethought… Continue Reading →
Yale Environment 360. A review of three research papers that reach different conclusions on the best way to protect nature and restore what has been lost. They differ regarding “the nature we have, how to conserve it, and the best… Continue Reading →
Scientific American. Given the interest for and against what’s now happening at Fairy Creek on the west coast of Vancouver Island, this article seems especially timely. It recognizes that human rights may be also reside in and be preserved indirectly… Continue Reading →
Capital Daily. Have you noticed how “development” seems to be running backwards lately, at least when it is defined in terms like “globalization”? More small local solutions, over which we feel we have more control and influence, are now appearing… Continue Reading →
The Guardian. Off the top, this story seems not to have a lot of relevance for Nanaimo. But if you take the principle of legislating use of the most efficient forms of transportation, it’s connections to Vancouver Island begin swimming… Continue Reading →
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