PEREGRINE PULP

In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...

Somehow polar bears became the symbol of climate change and species extinction. It makes some sense how this creature arrived at it poster child status. Polar bears are distributed all across the most northern regions of the globe and, given that they are the apex predator in this most climate change-impacted region, folks expected these animals to be the first and most visibly suffering. And now countless news reports, environmental campaigns, and viral social media posts te

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

Total: 2005: 1,364 (Sheltered 773, Unsheltered 59) 2010: 1,715 (Sheltered 1,294, Unsheltered 421) 2015: 1,746 (Sheltered 1,258,...

Introduction I entered the Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication (MAEEC) program at Royal Roads University because...

* 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

I just read an article titled “Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report.” It’s published on the website of...

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

I can't stop reading and hearing a range of reporters and podcasters on CBC and elsewhere repeat a blatantly false story across all their...

READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...

On Friday March 30, 1979 there was a significant anthrax outbreak among the population of Sverdlovsk. Local officials and scientists...

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

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

A legend of the environmental world and key author in our introductory readings, David Orr, writes, “...philosophers have agreed with...

It's happening again. A Forbes article, citing the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF), is reporting that due to recent fires in Australia...

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

There's this document that's been making the rounds: 10 Pieces of Evidence That Prove Black People Sailed to the Americas Long Before...

Whenever I'm involved in conversations about intersex- or trans-related issues someone conflates trans with intersex and notes that one...