GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
Youth, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Future
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
SOLASTALGIA – The Rise of Climate Anxiety in Young People
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
Shaking Up The Establishment
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
Pathways: To Have Children (Or Not) in the Climate Crisis
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
Repairing the Social Contract
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
Two Business Ethics Students Use Video to Reflect on Ethics and the Climate Crisis
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
Recent Climate Fiction – Four Brief Book Reviews
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 1
March 2024
featured article by Mary Keane
Editor-in-Chief of the GTEC Reader
Our Contributors
Our Contributors
Mary Kean is the editor of the GTEC Reader and on the Board of the Green Technology Education Centre. A writer, publisher and poet she was a Couple and Family Therapist for over 20 years. Her work in response to the Climate Crisis is on behalf of her grandchildren. Bill Stovin is a retired […]
Recent Climate Fiction – Four Brief Book Reviews
Listen to the Reviewer Read This Article (13:14) * * * Even If Everything Ends by Jens Liljestrand (Scout Press, 2023) Mobility by Lydia Kiesling (Crooked Media Reads, 2023) The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins (Atria Books, 2023) The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow (Tor Publishing Group, 2023) * * * Even If Everything […]
Two Business Ethics Students Use Video to Reflect on Ethics and the Climate Crisis
Dr. Charles Scott introduces this video and the two students who produced it, Isabel Chan and Kassley Kangleon who then use the vehicle to consider ethics and the Climate Crisis. Introduction by Charles Scott The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead in The Aims of Education published in 1916 wrote that there is nothing more harmful […]
Repairing the Social Contract
Introduction by Dr. Arden Henley followed by a video and transcript of an interview of Elisa Echelli, by a former Repairing the Social Contract interviewee, Solé Castaneda. by Dr. Arden Henley During the spring of 2020 I taught a graduate course called the Psychology of Aging at City University in Canada at Vancouver. In that […]
Pathways: To Have Children (Or Not) in the Climate Crisis
Listen to the author read this article (9:14) “You’ll feel some pressure,” said the doctor. I was lying on my back; the room was dark, save for one overhead light. “Take a deep breath,” she counselled. I gasped. The nurse and the anesthesiologist shot each other a look; one adjusted the IV snaking into my […]
Shaking Up The Establishment
Manvi Bhalla has been shaking up the establishment since she was a teenager but in 2019 she took her activism to a new level. That’s when she co-founded a national climate justice organization ‘Shake Up The Establishment’ which shone a light on the environmental platforms of Canadian political parties ahead of that year’s federal election. […]
SOLASTALGIA – The Rise of Climate Anxiety in Young People
Listen to the author read this article (10:53) The summer and fall of 2021 was deeply unsettling for Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky as fire swept through parts of the interior of British Columbia, followed by an atmospheric river that tore up chunks of the Coquihalla highway. Her family in Vancouver regularly drove the Coquihalla to visit […]
Youth, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Future
Listen to the author read this article (4:35) Those of us over fifty might have a lot of concern about the Climate Crisis, but we have those concerns mainly for our children and grandchildren. No doubt we will encounter “interesting times”, as the Chinese saying implies, however, we won’t deal with it long, nor will […]
What if… ? Recent Climate Fiction
Hear the author read this article (10:43) Gazillionaires like Musk, Bezos and Branson have been spending vast sums on space travel, pursuing the fantasy of colonizing another planet. But what if one of the super-rich decided instead to invest his fortune on a strategy to mitigate climate change here on Earth? The latter is the […]
Reflections Upon Food Insecurity
The hatred of the poor, is it guilt gone rancid? When those Congressmen talk of people who are counting their last change for gas or eggs choosing between cold and hunger they snarl Marge Piercy (2014). Food Insecurity When we speak of food security, we are really talking about food in-security and food insecurity is […]