GTEC Reader Vol 3 Issue 4 Archives - GTEC Green Technology Education Centre
Comment: Cherries in the Snow

Comment: Cherries in the Snow

Not yet December at this writing and the snow is flying. Just another reminder that the Climate Crisis is upon us now. We’ve gone from inconvenience: too cold, too hot, particulate matter, atmospheric river, and heat dome to extinction rampant, zoonotic diseases...
The Oilpatch Disinformation Campaign

The Oilpatch Disinformation Campaign

In June 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen sounded the alarm about global warming at a US Senate hearing on climate change.  On the following day, his message was a front-page story in the New York Times.  That moment is often cited as seminal in raising public...
Mind, Nature, and Three Aphorisms

Mind, Nature, and Three Aphorisms

What if the movements and obstructions of a river, and the movements of human suffering, that which we often call “mental illness,” might actually be seen as one and the same suffering? We tend to separate that which is human from that which is nature, that which...
Reflections In Challenging Times

Reflections In Challenging Times

For decades I have given considerable thought to the interplay and interconnection between environment and wellbeing. I believe wellness may be correlated with the value and connection accruing in the ways we locate and situate our being within communities of others’....
Poem – Forest: Broken Open

Poem – Forest: Broken Open

A fall, A break Pain, Dazed Shimmering light Falling through Trees embrace. Laughter, sighs Peace timeless Wonder of Life larger than Life, Emerges Nothing’s the same Boundless Gratitude -Tom Culham is a lecturer at SFU. His poem was inspired by a serious bike...