PostedMay 26, 2023 | Arts & Culture, climate change, international news, opinion
By Ross Thrasher The newly crowned King Charles III is facing a different world from that of his mother at her coronation 70 years ago. The royal family is an artifact of Britain’s colonial past, and many Commonwealth countries are now detaching themselves from that...
PostedMar 19, 2023 | Arts & Culture, climate change
World Poetry Day, March 21, is a celebration of our “most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. . . poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and...
PostedFeb 21, 2023 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, community, opinion
What Graeber & Wengrow Have to Say to Salmon Nation as it Faces Responding to the Climate Crisis. Published in 2021, during the throes of the pandemic, Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity usurps our widely accepted notions...
PostedDec 16, 2022 | Arts & Culture, climate change, community, Education, news
The Year in Review Just as it signals the end of the sun’s journey to the north and its welcome return to the south, winter solstice portends the end of another calendar year and the beginning of winter, a time of joyous celebration and quiet reflection. Many peoples...
PostedNov 24, 2022 | Arts & Culture, climate change, lifestyle
Thanks to Carmen Ward & Sara Craven for bringing our attention to this poem. ~ GTEC Reader Editor Praise the light of late November, the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones. Praise the crows chattering in the oak trees; though they are clothed in night,...
PostedSep 28, 2022 | Arts & Culture, climate change, community, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability
By Linda Thyer We have heard many times that we are in a climate and ecological crisis. When the lakes and rivers are running dry, when the forests are burning and the plains are flooding, when storms are destroying homes and the lands around the world, we know we are...
