Last week in Kelowna, I talked to a group gathered at the library about the price of fences, such as this ‘deer fence’ around an orchard in Vernon. Deer need to go […]
How Fences Change the Climate
Harold Rhenisch
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The Life of Water
Under certain conditions, water freezes in curves around the expanding pressure of air, in a shape reminiscent of liquid water giving way to form. At other times, it freezes in the shape […]
Sixty Things We Can Do to Help the Earth Right Now, Right Here
This is the second part of the answer to a question of how adopting Indigenous land use protocols can help the Earth. The first is here: The Price of De-Indigenizing the Land. […]
The Price of De-Indigenizing the Land
While talking about Cascadia the other night, I was asked: how can accepting Indigenous principles of land use… Earth Feeding Wasp …possibly help a world of 8 billion people, all hungry and […]
How Grassy is Grassland? Very.
The grass that grows in clumps… … make a pattern that the mice and gophers follow under the snow. In this way, they deepen the grid. That the grass makes. In […]
If Geese are Noble Beasts, What are Pheasants?
Praise to an orchard that left apples on the ground for the neighbours. The geese are contemplative about it, the robins (to the left) are quiet, the starlings are hidden in the […]
Come to My Cascadia Show at the Kelowna Library, January 30th at 5:30 pm.
Cascadia: The Once and Future Utopia I’ve been hard at work, putting ten years of explorations of Cascadia into a beautiful presentation. It is an honour to be asked by Okanagan Express […]
The Beauty of Fences
They don’t keep coyotes out. Beyond that, no beauty.
U-Boat Mouse
Up periscope! Down periscope! (And that’s all there is to it.)
Mid-Winter Avalanche in Vernon
Snow just doesn’t want to stay put, the sneaky stuff. Even if it is sitting absolutely flat, it wants to get all tipsy. That’s the way of things. Note the bird […]
Okanagan Okanogan 