The Canadian Government has recently released an economic action plan. It’s a bit exhaustive and exhausting, but worth a walk-by. Click here to have a look. Bring some friends along. Coyotes, maybe. […]
Reducing Climate Risk in Okanagan Agriculture
Murdering Geese for Tourists. It’s What We Do.
These geese. Come June, they will be herded with kayaks, put on a truck, killed, and dumped in the landfill. These geese: On a beach that has silted in with road sand […]
Energy Generation By Gravity and Elm
This is applied science as taught by an elm tree. Here’s the elm tree. Do say hi. So, right, you’ve got these long levers for arms, with these fine-fronds at the end […]
The Origins of Music?
So, what do you think? Is it possible that wolves (or in this case coyotes) taught people to make music, first by howling into the wind, and then by making flute holes […]
Water Harvesting
Someone got the idea that hanging cheap Chinese decorations on syilx trees would make things better. Maybe they will. Look at how the snow has collected on these dangling balls. Now, consider […]
The Gift Culture of the Grasslands
Flax is beautiful. The seeds grow heavy and lower the seed to the ground. Mice eat the seed there. And then it lifts up again, through the snow! These aren’t seeds that […]
Gravity Engines
Rocks aren’t all born alike. Here’s one from an old glacial river running along the ice that once filled this valley. Note what a light snowfall has done here. The stone has […]
Grassland Bycatch
Bycatch is all that stuff in the sea that deserves its own life, is caught when fishers are trying to snag something or other, and is thrown back overboard dead. It’s a […]
Irrigation the Other Way
Rather than pumps and pipes and all those expensive systems, why not just lay out the land in flats and catch the snow? Because the effects are short-lived? Well, then amplify them. […]
Wild Watercress for the Okanagan
Here’s a ditch that the city scraped out last spring. It has grown back with watercress, as you can see, probably from contaminated equipment. But look at it! Growing away despite the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 