Where: Alternator Centre for the Arts Time: 6-8 p.m. Date: Tuesday. This Tuesday. December 5. I hope you can come and take part in a discussion about the visual culture of the […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 21: The City of the Okanagan
In keeping with my conviction that we would do better to build things than tear them down, I would like to propose a new form of civilization in the Okanagan Valley. By […]
The Canadian Invasion
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Kelowna: The Inhuman City
At a certain point, when physical and social urban space is continually built out of practical considerations, usually the manipulation of people for purposes of efficiency and budgetary accountability, the city becomes […]
Unlaunching the Okanagan in Kelowna Tonight
Tonight, March 9, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Laurel Packinghouse, at the corner of Cawston and Ellis in Kelowna, I will be helping to unlaunch the Okanagan. Read all about it here. […]
Water and Air Pollution in the Okanagan Valley
This is the bottom of Okanagan Lake, in 15 centimetres of water, in Vernon, on a public beach. I know the green stuff is algae, that shouldn’t be there, but what is […]
What We Need to Talk About, Darling
The land I live on was an island that crashed into a continent. It buckled and smashed and was pushed up into the air by the collision. The old seabeds of its […]
Gardening is Just Too Hard
Even if you spend many thousands of dollars to cover most of your whole yard in black plastic tarp and to cover it in river gravel, there is no guarantee of success at […]
What are Those Americans Up to Now?
I don’t know. Look for yourself. Downtown Kelowna, 2:40 pm. August 20, 2015 I think the Okanagan’s brothers and sisters (nominally Canadian) in Okanogan County (nominally American) need our support in working […]
Alien Architecture in the Okanagan
Here’s a trail in the grasslands. Note the old house to the right of the trail. Ya, the round brown hillock. You got it!Here’s who lives there. Weaver ants! Thatch, in the earth, […]
