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 […]
Kokanee in Peril
The Hunting Cats of Switzerland
Big game hunting is a popular pastime for urban Canadians. Every fall men in camo gear pile $60,000 of military gear into their trucks, leave big cities, and head north to shoot […]
Soil Atmosphere in Crisis
For thousands of years, farmers have been trying to keep the living earth at bay by stripping all plant life from their fields. Because of evaporation issues around the destruction of organic […]
Life Without Oil
There was a time in the world in which technology and the work of the planet were intimately related. It was hardly romantic, but it has come to be known that way, […]
Powering Your iPhone With The Big Bang
The motions of matter and energy at the beginning of the universe haven’t finished their movements yet, even here 13.5 billion years away. They blow by, just outside my door, and yours. […]
Tools for a New World
Tools are fun, and always handy to have around, like this: One Retired Okanagan Fruit Farmer Hangs a Hammer Wherever He Thinks He Might Need One It’s like having ten hands! Tools […]
Stairways to Heaven
It’s rare to find a little bit of landscaping that can pass as art, without bending the mind to do so. Here’s one, though, for sure: Device for Capturing the Energies of […]
Aliens Among Us
How thin is the world … Apple Orchard Under the May Sky In the 236,513,210,000,000,0000,000,000,000 metres from one side of the universe to the other, these apple trees take up 2 metres of […]
Wild Grain
Today, these notes on a dry country inland from the Northeastern Shore of the Pacific Ocean have me in a working class city on a rainy island in the Atlantic off the […]
Many Worlds
Ever since Apollo astronauts sent back a picture of the blue earth hanging in space, it has been easy to imagine the earth as a drop of water in the emptiness: tiny, […]
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