Yesterday, I shared a vision for my city, Vernon, in the North Okanagan, based around the notion of steampunk, an art form usually praised for funky flea market jewelry made from recycled […]
Photographic Punk: Another Look at the Urban Okanagan
Vernon: Steam Punk Capital of the World
Steam punk is a branch of writing and art (especially jewelry and sculpture, romantic novels and visual poetry) that recombines materials from the age of steam and iron, and sets them in […]
The Scent of Spring
Here’s the queen of our wild flowers … it smells so fine, it finds you before you find it!In wild rose season, everyone gets to be a bee. Bees gather pollen after […]
Beyond David Suzuki
My friend Claude has reminded me of David Suzuki’s observation: “We need air to live, we need water to live, we need food to live. If we continue to destroy all these […]
The Creative Economy and a Living Earth
Here’s how the earth came to be alive up on the hill. Spider Making the Most of Invasive Knapweed Here’s how the earth came to be dying up the hill. An investment […]
Wild Bees Going Wild
Wasps, bees, hornets, bumblebees, beetles, ants, butterflies … everyone is out in the wild cherries today. Nobody is in the orchards ten feet away. And not one single domesticated bee in sight. Look at […]
Ring-Necked Pheasant
Good news! The ring-necked pheasant up on the hill has two hens. Here he is. The hens are going to fly up in front of me a couple minutes later. Ring-Necked Pheasant […]
Death and Life in the Springtime
There are two ways of dealing with pests that are eating your crops. The first is human. It involves death. Before humans singled it out, there was only life. Death is the […]
True Green and False Economy
What passes for environmentally sound practices today are deep reflections of an economic system, but they’re not green, and they’re not going to ensure either the survival of the earth or of […]
It is So Good to be Home
I now have two homes on this earth. Just look at them both in this spring full of light. First, my home in the middle of the North Atlantic … Spring […]
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