VOLUME 4 – ISSUE 1, Mar 2023
Feature article by Colin James Sanders
and much more…
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Maude Barlow: Leader in the Struggle for Water as a Human Right
Give a drink of water to all who ask, whether they be plant, /creature, human or helpful spirit; / May you always have clean, fresh water (Joy Harjo, from poem “For a Girl Becoming”) Driving recently from Courtenay B.C. to Cumberland B.C., I passed a hand painted sign with blue lettering nailed on a hydro pole exclaiming, “Water is Life!” We take water for granted: you turn on the tap, clean water flows out; you turn on the shower or…
Islands and Water: Granville Island and Heracleion
Anthropological Newsletter, May 24, 2412 Working in the area where what used to be called the Georgia Strait intersects with the former False Creek a team of archeologists from Sri…
A Greener Approach To Collect And Clean Rainwater In Vancouver
The city of Vancouver, surrounded by waters on the west, north and south, is on the front line of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a rise…
Physician, Educator, Environmental Defender
An Interview with Dr. Tim Takaro “My commitment to protecting the planet is indeed both a professional and a moral calling. Until this event, I had never been arrested. I…
The Geopolitics of Water
A Future Scenario Satire April 1, 2025 Are Canada and the United States headed for a water war? Tensions have been rising along the world’s longest undefended border, as thousands…
River Journey Conjuring Spirit
Spirit, religion, and mysticism are all loaded words in contemporary western science and thinking. After all, they are worlds apart, separate, at a place where the twain shall never meet….
Climate Refugees – Book Review
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World, by Gaia Vince. Flatiron Books, 2022. 260 p. All over the world, millions of people are on the move. Fleeing Putin’s…
A Missing Lake and a Web of Contested Relations
A thought experiment: What might a missing lake unfold for us? Also, what patterns might emerge as we follow the lines that connect seemingly dissimilar events? And, from an encounter…
Comment: Giving It All We Got
Listen to Mary Kean reading this article — 4 minutes Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water…
