what we took for dead dying decayed the stumps of cedar fir even hemlock many sprouting babies persist where living/dying among the young trees that stand around me now & watch me moving among them watching from their green eyes be wildered she said the river was...
There was a lake. In 1924 Sumas Lake (Semá:th) was drained by settlers to create farmland. No prior consent from the inhabitants and now the lake returns, with a vengeance, flooded again with run-off from clear-cuts, by an atmospheric river surging up out of the...
“So far, we have not been able to effect a major change of inner attitude that would enable us to return from our extractive, non-renewing, industrial way of life to an organic ever-renewing, land-based way of life.” – Thomas Berry (2001) Over twenty years after...
The clarion call is here for a radical way of re-thinking the human relationship within and alongside the environment. Imagine a new paradigm and a new socio-political-economic system that is required if the climate crisis is to be addressed in such a way that our...
[Editor’s note: The GTEC Board of Directors opens each meeting with words regarding our relationship with Indigenous people so that we might improve our side of that relationship. The following was given at the February, 2022 meeting by Dr. Thyer.] European settlers...
