CHRISTMAS 1970.
by Spike Milligan
A little girl called Sile Javotte
Said ‘Look at the lovely presents I’ve got’
While a little girl in Biafra said
‘Oh what a lovely slice of bread’.
Remember the Leaf
Will moved his toe in the cold water. Leaves exhaled the last breath of fall. Genevieve listened.
“In geological time, all this, this big catastrophe, it’s nothing. It’s the world blinking,” he said, staring into the creek.[1]
“How can you say that? Art, civilization, beauty, love, war, the rise and fall of empires—it’s not [...]
Behind the Scenes of my “New” Used Jeans
My most recent acquisition is a pair of used Levi’s jeans, made in Mexico of 100% cotton. The housing co-op where I live has a ‘free box’ in the laundry room, where any resident can drop off unwanted clothes for other residents to wear. I’m not sure how old these jeans are, or how [...]
Waste Management is a true symbol of Globalization, being part of both the problem and part of the solution we have chosen. The topic of waste is one that is, or should be, more and more on the forefront of our concerns.
These are photographs of 3 Waste Management Bins. They are [...]
ORGANIC FOODS F.A.Q. (MCLAUGHLIN MIX)
Given that you have the time and the internet access to be checking out this lovely website, dear reader, it’s a safe bet that you don’t have to think too hard about the food you eat. Grocery shopping is a simple chore. You just wander in to the local supermarket and load up. Even if [...]
Earth has passed the stage of adolescence,
No longer like new blooms or sprouting stems:
We have raped her virgin ecosystems,
Her beauty into middle age descends.
She now realizes her life will end,
killing the creatures that inhabit her;
But pities not her great inhibitor,
To us, [...]
Sixty years ago, the world gasped in horror at the discovery of a program of systematic murder intent on annihilating particular groups of people, most notably Jews and Gypsies. While the term genocide has recently been used by the Bush Administration to depict the on-going human rights violations in the Darfur region of Sudan, very [...]
Frequently contradictory evidence regarding the current state of knowledge about climate change, accompanied by sensationalized media reports and rhetoric-laden political battles have made climate change a shaky domain of miscommunication and continual powerplays for legitimacy. In the search for reputable, defensible science surrounding the problem of global climate change, governments, media, and scholars alike turn [...]
It started from looking at the Terry website. Reading a description of the speakers’ series, I stumbled upon the following words… “We feel that there is a lot of value in bringing in individuals, who are not only experts in their chosen field (where the chosen field has wide ranging effects on all of humanity), [...]
Audrey restlessly stirs the ice cubes around in her glass of rum and coke. She watches the sparkling cubes bang angrily against each other before synchronizing harmoniously into the perfect twirling circle. Round and round they go, leaving an ominous dark plunge in the centre. The cubes stick together, as though to protect one another [...]
Who knew dusty shelves and pin-drop silence had such an intimate connection to the health of the planet? At the recent Vancouver International Writers (and Readers!) Festival, I heard Alberto Manguel the author of “A History of Reading”, “The Library at Night”, and much, much more, speak passionately about how libraries impact civilizations. His energy [...]
CULTURES ON THE EDGE
WADE DAVIS – NOVEMBER 8th, 2006
Quicktime 7 Required
“Cultures on the Edge.”
(November 8th, 2006, Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre)
AUDIO | PODCAST | VIDEO
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Wade Davis is an anthropologist, botanist, and best-selling author. He spent more than three years in the Amazon and [...]
SCIENCE AND SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH
A Call to the Scientist
Amongst the readers of this article, there are many who are science lovers. Although, there are also interesting, intelligent, passionate people who don’t like science at all, a few of us exist who absolutely love science. The science lovers among us speak quietly and subtly to the rest of humanity [...]
THE END OR THE HALT OF POVERTY?
Have you ever thought about the development of societies? Why is it that you have so many freedoms, and other people, namely in other countries, have so few. Why is it that you can become a doctor or an engineer or a teacher and work in basically any country you would like? Why is it [...]
Portrait as a Young Sapling: Trees as Artists and Mobile Entities
Image resulting from tree “painting” by Douglas-fir for two minutes.
Trees epitomize immobility and passivity. They are rooted in one place, have extremely long lives relative to humans, and react slowly to most environmental stimuli, so both practically and symbolically, trees are closely linked with the related characteristics of stability, constancy, and [...]
SOME THOUGHTS ON SAVING THE PLANET
There are 35000 undergraduate and 8000 graduate students at UBC-Vancouver, 4000 faculty members, and who knows how many staff. Together we can make a difference. Here are a couple suggestions to start off for the love of our planet:
1. GIVE UP VITAL FLUIDS
Don’t get the wrong idea. What I mean is coffee, [...]
GUZZLE THE SUN: ENERGY TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE (FATHER AND DAUGHTER II)
10 year old Laura was bored. Sitting in their fuel cell vehicle, they had to queue at the “petrol” station. Not that there was any petrol anymore, prices above $50 per liter had convinced even the hardiest advocates of “ye good old times” to change to other means of transportation.
She was sitting in one [...]
A Short History of Canada’s Most Famous Citizen: The Canadarm
1981
The Canadarm debuts as the universe’s most famous arm when it makes its inaugural flight on the space shuttle Columbia.
2001
The bigger, better, longer Canadarm2 is installed on the International Space Station.
2006
Twin Canadarms on the Space Station are the undisputed stars of NASA’s space program, at least [...]
We are missing:
Artists, Writers, Musicians
Sculptors, Publishers and Playwrights.
Shapers of thought, carvers of constellations and
pilots of philosophy who haven’t shown up.
What are you doing while pages lay empty,
when books are bound without your stories?
Radio and television fill our ears
with white noise. [...]
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October 16th, 2207. A single slug slides along a damp, rocky outcrop overlooking a grey, brown bay where one can still barely make out the grids, structured lines and order of the former metropolis. The landscape that once was western Canada is now empty and desolate. The city is gone. All the cities are gone. [...]