GTEC Reader Vol 3 Issue 3 Archives - GTEC Green Technology Education Centre

Comment: The Gorilla in the Room

The idea of “Selective Attention” was demonstrated in 1999 by two professors at Harvard University, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simon, who performed an experiment in which three people in white shirts tossed a basketball to each other. At the same time three other...
The Treeline Book Review

The Treeline Book Review

The Treeline: the last forest and the future of life on earth, by Ben Rawlence. St. Martin’s Press, 2022. The evolution of forests offers important clues to the prospects for Planet Earth. As Ben Rawlence puts it, “the history of humans and the history of the forest...
The Alders

The Alders

The alders are the reoccupiers they come easily and quickly into skinned land rising like an ambush on raked ridges jabbing like whiskers up through the washed-out faces of neverused roads.   The alders are the forestfixers bandaging brown wounds with applegreen...
The Collective Spirit behind an Urban Forest

The Collective Spirit behind an Urban Forest

Vancouver’s Everett Crowley Park was once a massive garbage dump. It has since evolved into a unique park dearly loved by members of the surrounding community who care for it throughout the year. People like 22 year old student Damian Assadi and 75 year old David...
Urban Forests

Urban Forests

August 2022 was one of the hottest, driest months ever in Vancouver and those conditions are expected to worsen in the future. Regional climate models project an average increase of about three degrees Celsius by 2050 with the amount of rain expected to decrease by 20...