There is a group of plants that produce food, require little or no irrigation, little care, and are open to be shared by human and animal grazers. They are called weeds. They […]
For the Love of Weeds
Writing on Rock
Writing about the culture that has come out of aboriginal-settler relationships in what is sometimes called the Late West, is a bit like peeling a layer off an onion, and there’s another […]
Global Cooling Part 4: Waste Water Wasted
To conclude some thoughts about global warming being the process of human cultural estrangement from water, these words today. They began here, then flowed here and here, with a stopover here, in […]
Global Cooling Part 3
Water is sacred. It tells the story of gravity. If you want to read the pattern of the stars, look to water. It’s telling you about that. I’ve been trying to follow […]
Global Cooling Part 2
Before I left for the last two weeks of travels through the deserts, mountains, and beaches of Washington, I began a discussion on global warming, which centred on water use in dryland […]
Global Cooling
Global Warming sadly seems to be the case. It appears to be humanly created, too. Here in the grasslands of the North American west, global cooling seems to be making the situation […]
Winter in July
Here’s a thing about living in the intersection of climactic zones: the seasons are wrong. For instance, because this area of North America has been colonized by Britain, Canada, and the United […]
Free Energy and Free Carbon
When’s the last time someone said to you, “Hey, free gas at the pumps today?” Chinese Elm Meets the Power Line Crew This is all the wood that no one in the […]
The Red Shift 2
Palettes of colour can provide lenses with which to enter into the landscape. That was the story last week. To put on those glasses, click here. The earth may be an art […]
Kokanee in Peril
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 […]
Okanagan Okanogan 