Without planning, there is chaos. Goose and Gull Chaos Oh, wait, maybe it’s with planning that there’s chaos. Okanagan Paradise A park bench, a valley view, and the grassland hill behind. Might it be […]
The Urban Planning Paradox
The Beauty of Okanagan Beaches
Did you see the government ad about the Okanagan’s wonderful beaches? See it here. They understated the truth, that’s all I can say. For your holiday pleasure, here are the public amenities […]
The Achilles Heel of Justin Trudeau’s Canada
The leader of The Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has put his shoulder behind the wheel of a thing he calls “The Middle Class”. This is not the middle class that […]
Geese Make Art Too
Goose art. Crystal Moon, by Canada Goose Air, water, light and cold. More goose art. Double White Hole, by Goose Air, water, light, cold and sun. How do they do this? Aha. […]
Humans Go 3-D
Yesterday I talked about how humans (and dogs) navigate the world through one- and two-dimensional patterns and the intersections between them. These are less qualities of the world than qualities of the […]
Environmental Accounting & Poverty
In my last post, I spoke about the Old Norse concept of a tun, a farm yard constructed at the intersection of social and physical earths. I argued that tuns created the […]
A Visit to the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus
University Health Sciences Building. University Health Sciences Building Garden University Health Sciences Building Parking Lot Garden Natural Late January Wild Rock Garden (Off Campus.) University Health Sciences Building Art University Health Sciences […]
The Simple Math of Global Warming
Before there was photography, there was a philosopher called Fichte, who was driven out of his university classroom by a riot and hid out in a little hotel in the country, behind […]
The Ethics of Science, Art and Light
Here’s some mullein blooming against a backdrop of grasses gone to seed. The seeds represent four months of light transformed into starches and stored in the seeds of the grass, which show up […]
The Social Life of Steam Punk
Last week, I proposed that the Okanagan city of Vernon was the steampunk capital of the world. I suggested that it is a giant art installation, in fact. When walked through as […]
