PostedMay 23, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion, sustainability, technology
Brief Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher As an antidote to the doomscrolling about climate change that permeates the media these days, here is a sampling of four brand-new 2024 nonfiction titles that offer a more hopeful perspective. H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to...
PostedOct 24, 2023 | climate change, community, opinion, sustainability, technology
This article was originally published in Vox, a news and opinion website on Oct 18, 2023 and is re-published by GTEC with the permission of the author. Why so much is going wrong at the same time Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis? By...
PostedOct 22, 2023 | climate change, community, sustainability, technology
by Ross Thrasher Highlights of an Interview by Mary Kean with Wildland Fire Ecologist, Bob Gray in the GTEC Reader (Sept. 2023) Since the release of the Filmon Report, a B.C. royal commission in response to the Okanagan fires of 2003, the extent of wildfires in this...
PostedMar 28, 2023 | climate change, energy, international news, opinion, sustainability, technology
Necessary Adjustments? Compiled by Ross Thrasher Just Transition Sometimes the transition to clean energy runs into opposition from unexpected sources. The January 2023 issue of Harper’s Magazine contains an article by Hillary Angelo entitled “Boomtown: a solar land...
PostedJan 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...
PostedJan 20, 2023 | climate change, community, Education, sustainability, technology, Youth
The “green economy” is changing the workplace in B.C. Learn about exciting and endless career opportunities. About Green Collar Futures Virtual Career Conference Are you a student in grades 9-12? Explore your options at this FREE green collar career...
