Here’s the Vineyard at the Rise, frozen with grapes on the vine. And here is the picking team. And the administration… I’m all for feeding the birds, but it would have been […]
Who Can Take the Cold, or Is It Really Climate Change?
Canadian Safe Boating Rules
Because Canadians are excellent swimmers… Common Loon, the Quintessential Canadian … they need no lifejackets. They just impede the freedom of the swimming wings. Commoner Loon, the Quintessentialer Canadian Plus, sitting prevents […]
Beyond Settlement: Energy, Cascadia and the Portland Protests
Let’s look at energy by getting going. There is a way forward. You did not make it. No human made it, yet humans have followed it for, perhaps, 10,000 years. Deer made […]
Fate, Race and Populism in the Third Reich and Cascadia, Part 5 of 5
For a week now, I’ve been presenting a view of how time and land have a social dimension. Sometimes Being Social Means Backing Away That was my yesterday. Today, I will conclude […]
Erosion Can be a Healing Force
The abandoned gravel pit. Note the erosion. Note how the rock is sorted down slope around a nascent stream channel. The clays have settled out of the water below where the land […]
Going, Going, Gone?
Here’s an example of how British Columbia property law and land use determines the physical characteristics of the land itself. Here’s one of our treasures, the Brittly Prickly Pear. That lovely green […]
Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia
This post is a sketch of a detailed, viable alternative to this document: There are solutions in this blog for every problem listed in this document, that avoid its high […]
Food, Land and Slavery in British Columbia
It is time to talk about slavery. This form of violence takes many forms. Some are slavery of people to other people, which is terrible, slavery of people to the settler state, […]
Canada: Country of Weeds
Seriously. Here’s an image of the Grey Canal trail in the Okanagan Valley, the syilx homeland that Canada claimed as its own in 1871. Every single plant you see in this image, […]
Space Travel Without Theatrics
Imagine if you could take a whole planet, all of its air and water and bone and sinew, enclose it in a plastic, cloth and metal shell, and be just, well, you! […]
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