The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has just released a story about the decline of the Kokanee fishery in the Okanagan’s Wood Lake this year. In short, local fishermen have been unable to find […]
Kokanee in Peril
The Hunting Cats of Switzerland
Big game hunting is a popular pastime for urban Canadians. Every fall men in camo gear pile $60,000 of military gear into their trucks, leave big cities, and head north to shoot […]
Soil Atmosphere in Crisis
For thousands of years, farmers have been trying to keep the living earth at bay by stripping all plant life from their fields. Because of evaporation issues around the destruction of organic […]
Plant Slaves
There’s nothing like using life forms as decoration. It just brings nature close, mmm! The logic is astonishingly clever, too: functional architecture leads to the sense that one is living in an […]
Life Without Oil
There was a time in the world in which technology and the work of the planet were intimately related. It was hardly romantic, but it has come to be known that way, […]
The Persistence of the Universe
Tired of watering and mowing, and thinking of, maybe, helping out the over-stressed earth a bit by sitting in the boat and watching the wind play over the water like that wheat […]
Powering Your iPhone With The Big Bang
The motions of matter and energy at the beginning of the universe haven’t finished their movements yet, even here 13.5 billion years away. They blow by, just outside my door, and yours. […]
The Beauty of Colour
Sometimes I travel a long distance to learn what was always there speaking to me out of the world. In this case, it’s a trip to England, and flowers and ferns in […]
Spiritual Revolutions
There was a time in the world, long before science was even a newborn in diapers, when the earth was considered to be a spiritual space. To organize it, all you had […]
Tools for a New World
Tools are fun, and always handy to have around, like this: One Retired Okanagan Fruit Farmer Hangs a Hammer Wherever He Thinks He Might Need One It’s like having ten hands! Tools […]
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