This is one of a series of posts on creating sustainability in the Okanagan/Okanogan, a valley between the Monashee, Okanagan and Pasayten Ranges in north western North America. This valley, and the […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 16: Let’s Get Syrian
Sustaining the Okanagan 9: 1 Hour, 42 Jars
Keep your eyes open. Oregon Grape, Okanagan Lake Shore Ripe when the stems turn red. Spend an hour. Go to the kitchen. Soon you will have 30 Jars of jelly and 12 […]
Giving the Children Water: The Bigger Educational Picture
Last night, I wrote about the benefits of environmental transformation that could come through the simple mechanism of attaching a wetland to every school in the Okanagan. It’s worth elaborating on, because […]
The Best Thing We Can Do for the Okanagan and Ourselves, Ever
I’m working on a series of 100 practical things we can do in the Okanagan to create a sustainable culture. They are archived in the menu bar above. Let me give you […]
Footprint of the Sun
Respect given is respect received. Power given is returned in the same gesture. Columbia River Photography pales next to this.
A Gift of Berries
Changes in language are created by girls as they pass through puberty. Who better to names these berries than the syilx girls who traditionally picked them, between the birds, and the deer? […]
Spirit Mountain and the Legacy of the Dreamers
Back in the Cold War, this was one of the most secure sites in the world, bristling with anti-aircraft defences against a nuclear first strike. Now it’s a dry hill beside an alfalfa field. It […]
Vancouver’s 2016 Colonization of the British Columbia Interior, Illustrated
Note: Since this article was written, Canadian Art has corrected its geography, and now describes its outpost, correctly, as in the Interior. That is welcome. The critique of elite privilege is still […]
The Human Signature
Rock (and marmots)… … rock and water … …the thing that makes them similar is you. Here, the same signature shows up again, in an old gold mine in Conconully. Fascinating, isn’t […]
The Mysterious Surface of Water
When the tension of light on the surface of water is randomly broken, the water no longer looks like water. The random patterns are more attractive to the human mind. It’s because […]
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