

WILL WE EVER HAVE A COVID VACCINE?
I’ve had nearly every common and exotic shot and oral immunization available. In my youth I was given all the typical ones nearly every Canadian receives when little, like measles and diphtheria. I’ve had nearly every other less common one, such as rabies, too. Also, having travelled to rural parts of Southeast Asia and Africa has also meant I've needed immunization for typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, and more. And I've taken every kind of drug out there as a pr
Dec 29, 202015 min read


VANCOUVER HOMELESSNESS COUNT
Total: 2005: 1,364 (Sheltered 773, Unsheltered 59) 2010: 1,715 (Sheltered 1,294, Unsheltered 421) 2015: 1,746 (Sheltered 1,258,...
Nov 19, 20202 min read


THESIS - INTRO, METHOD, METHODOLOGY
Introduction I entered the Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication (MAEEC) program at Royal Roads University because...
Oct 1, 20207 min read


THE UTERUS COLLECTOR
* SEE UPDATE Earlier this month, multiple human rights organizations (Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, and the South Georgia Immigrant Support Network) filed a complaint on behalf of women detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Georgia. Based on accounts from detainees and corroborated by a nurse, whistleblower Dawn Wooten who formerly worked at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC), the compla
Sep 29, 20204 min read


WHERE ARE WE AT?
I just read an article titled “Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report.” It’s published on the website of...
Sep 14, 20203 min read


EVERYTHING SPEAKS: MEDITATIONS ON THE ANIMISM OF LANGUAGE
David Abram and Robin Wall Kimmerer write of the tremendous power of language to shape perception and, therefore, our relationships and our reality. This has been a theme throughout my grad school program and is something widely agreed upon. We similarly agree that we want to live in a more broadly sensitive and meaningfully connected world (not just with other humans via Twitter or Zoom.) From there, we talk with force about our pressing concerns related to climate, extincti
Aug 16, 202014 min read


KIMMERER ON LANGUAGE
READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...
Aug 6, 20203 min read


THE VIDS: AN ORIGIN STORY
On Friday March 30, 1979 there was a significant anthrax outbreak among the population of Sverdlovsk. Local officials and scientists...
Mar 23, 20201 min read


GAIA
Our reading offers us that, "The ability to recover from mass extinctions is strong evidence for Gaia." This idea still strikes me like a...
Feb 22, 20202 min read


INTUITION
Intuition came up in several recent school readings and class discussions. I don’t understand this conversation or know where to go with it. At all. Part of the problem, I think, is about definitions. (Though this is probably just Maslow's hammer: my cognitive bias that over-relies upon semantics. To the semantic-hammer, everything seems a word-nail.) What I'm certain of is that our readings never help with a definition. ( It seems you're just supposed to intuit a meaning. ZI
Feb 10, 20205 min read


THE HESCHEL-ORR PARADOX
A legend of the environmental world and key author in our introductory readings, David Orr, writes, “...philosophers have agreed with...
Dec 11, 20199 min read


"FUNCTIONALLY EXTINCT"
It's happening again. A Forbes article, citing the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF), is reporting that due to recent fires in Australia...
Nov 23, 20192 min read


THE WEE IRON LIZARD
The first unique dinosaur species native to BC has debuted. Ferrisaurus sustutensis (the iron lizard of the Sustut River , named such for the specimen being found along a railway line near the river), is a member of a rare family of little, hornless or small-horned, beaked dinos known as Leptoceratopsidae . You can think of them as Triceratops but only two metres long, standing less than a metre tall, and weighing only 150kgs (they're just wee, hence the "lepto" in the name
Nov 22, 20191 min read


"LONG BEFORE COLUMBUS"
There's this document that's been making the rounds: 10 Pieces of Evidence That Prove Black People Sailed to the Americas Long Before...
Nov 21, 201925 min read


TWO PERCENT?
Whenever I'm involved in conversations about intersex- or trans-related issues someone conflates trans with intersex and notes that one...
Oct 13, 20196 min read


IF BANANAS COULD TALK
PEOPLE: “Folks today expect bananas all year round!” BANANAS: “Oh Humans, we Bananas are not a seasonal crop. That's the first thing you...
Oct 4, 20191 min read


CLIMATE MARCHES or THE PRAXIS OF NOT GIVING A FUCK
How do we confuse ourselves less, avoiding getting things catastrophically wrong and making things worse for everyone? Could it require...
Sep 27, 20195 min read


FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS EAT INSECTS
Somehow we're still on the insect-eating thing. Now we're on to a group project. For this project, we started by adopting the perspective...
Sep 23, 20193 min read

























































































