Posted by Arden Henley | May 29, 2023 | climate change, community, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability, Youth
Ingrid Kastens, Board Chair of Dogwood, recently wrote an interesting article called “What is Eco-Anxiety? 10 Simple Ideas to Manage Climate Change & Your Stress” for 365give. What is the climate crisis? What is eco-anxiety? Why does it matter? What...
Posted by Arden Henley | Jan 26, 2023 | climate change, community, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability, technology
Compiled by Ross Thrasher The recent publications sampled below are well worth reading in full. Most of them are available at your local public library. John Gray, “The dangerous conceits of the green revolution”, The New Statesman (18-24 November 2022), pp. 28-31. A...
Posted by Arden Henley | Nov 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,...
Posted by Arden Henley | Nov 19, 2022 | climate change, community, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability
By Kim McLeod A friend of GTEC recently shared an article titled “Ethical Maxims for a Marginally Inhabitable Planet”. This rather difficult but necessary read is written by two bioethics professors, David Schenck, a former Director of Ethics, Medical University of...
Posted by Arden Henley | Oct 7, 2022 | community, Education, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability
How a Daoist Approach to Education Benefits Students, Society and the Environment By Tom Culham This article first appeared in Open Access Government October 2022 under the title How can a Daoist approach benefit Western education? It is reprinted with the permission...
Posted by Arden Henley | Sep 28, 2022 | 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...