If you don’t know about Yang Liu already, read s’more here on her website. I’m keeping my eyes out for more of her work ever since I saw the “East Meets West” exhibit online (navigate: “Special”, then “Ost rifft West”). It’s been awhile since I related to art like this. I’ve always been artistically [...]
According to the Globe and Mail, Vancouver Metro Transit officials feel it is within their guidelines to taser riders who refuse to pay for public transportation: in 18 months, the taser was used 10 times. I’m in awe.
An internal review of the incident concluded that the action taken by [...]
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Honors Geometry, now with a Rubik’s Cube!
Film Appreciation, now with an Apple iPod!
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THE BOTTOM BILLION (VIDEO)
PAUL COLLIER
MARCH 11TH, 2008
“The Bottom Billion – Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”
(March 11th, 2008, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, UBC First Nation’s Longhouse)
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Global poverty is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group [...]
from this NYT article
There’s a neat article in the NYT covering the Easterman paradox – or why wealth isn’t associated happiness (that is, apparently now). Check it out – interesting read.
As many of you will remember, we were successful in receiving funding through the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) to develop Terry Talks, UBC’s version of the popular Ted Talks.
The plan is to launch Terry Talks next year – so that means a summer filled with working out the format and [...]
Depolarization
The title is a play on words using the idea that global warming is causing the poles to disappear, and all the world is turned into one gigantic mess of melting ice and water.
Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches (2008)
(Click here for a larger version of [...]
Ethical Progressive Intelligent Consumer
From eco-travel to green weddings, the EPIC sustainable living expo is here this weekend. Green living is becoming big business. If you’ve got mixed feelings about it head down to the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre and check it out for yourself.
In browsing the EPIC website last night, I [...]
Something funny happened this weekend.
On Friday Dave, Allen, and Terry* were relaxing on top of the knoll, spreading the good word on sustainability et al. Allen and a couple of students were discussing student activism on campus – he mentioned that, although student apathy is not a novel attitude among [...]
The Ottawa Sun has an interesting tidbit on “Greenwashing”, or “the false or misleading practice of advertising green but operating dirt.” It isn’t surprising that this has become an issue – companies making claims of sustainable, environmental, or “green” practices when, in fact, they may be doing no such thing.
It’s an area in which [...]
Dialogue in Mandarin with English subtitles. An impoverished rural village in contemporary China.
EXT. A SMALL WOODEN HOUSE – – DAY
MAMA, a single mother of three children in her mid 30’s, walks along a dusty dirt road into a meek wooden house lugging a heavy pail of water.
A shabby [...]
This is a cute short animation, nominated for an Oscar (and winner of 8 other international awards) in 2003:
The short follows the conversation between two rockmen as they watch the evolution of humans ~10,000 years ago. The film does a great job illustrating what some geologists refer to as [...]
[I thought I would take the liberty of re-posting this press-release on behalf of the groups listed below, just FYI. Definitely holds relevance for Terry. -JS]
April 12, 2008
For Immediate Release
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
VANCOUVER CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS TO LAUNCH UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT
AGAINST CANADA ON THE RIGHT [...]
A Transdisciplinary Field Course offered thru UBC Earth & Ocean Sciences, Friday August 8 until Wednesday August 20 on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia
Three undergrad credits as EOSC 217; EOSC 448 or Grad credit (EOSC 595) may be arranged under some circumstances
Major Course activities: Earth Literacy, Community Living and Sustainability Foundations through [...]
i bet dr. brown knew how to make pasta
I think the booming “eat local, organic food” mantra ultimately boils down neither to stemming fossil fuel emission, nor supporting local farmers by shopping at the nearby farmer’s market, nor going “chemical free” or “gmo free”, but rather to a fundamental [...]
Something from the ol’ CTV:
Vancity credit union is the first North American financial institution to become carbon neutral, it announced on Wednesday, after it voluntarily set its own goals in 2006 to reduce its carbon emissions before 2010.
The term carbon neutral means the amount of CO2 emissions Vancity has created are [...]
Recently, I picked up a copy of the latest 3×3 Annual (No. 4 to be exact), and was perusing through the great artwork that it compiles. Here the entries (about 250 pages worth) are essentially on display via a competition format, but if looking at a wonderful array of graphics is your kind of [...]
However – congrats! It takes courage to stand up to the same institution that grades your performance. I expect the knoll will be saved, the underground bus bunker exposed as useless and expensive, and the well-needed stoking of the embers of student activism universally appreciated. Keep it up SDS!
People Watching
Many have mentioned it before me, but I feel the need to emphasize it, strolling down the Corniche in Beirut is like crossing the entire country. Within a few miles, you’ll encounter people of all walks of life: conservative and liberals, Christians and Muslims, young and old, rich and poor. Here is a list of [...]
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I got angry again
I got angry again, so I started writing. The epicenter of my anger is some miscommunication. Misdirection even. There was a flare up on campus that was completely avoidable. It was violent and unnecessary and has no place on a University campus. Everyone concerned handled himself or herself poorly, in my estimation. At the [...]