SOUND

If an article about a nearby municipality is any indication, we have a long ways to go in education about SOUND issues. Vancouver City Councillors were interviewed recently about what they do for environmental sustainability. While acknowledging that they live in houses larger than necessary or efficient, drive more than necessary, use airplanes, and consume a lot of luxuries, several still managed to grade themselves (more…)

Why do some activists opt for violence? Against whom is this violence committed? What is needed to resolve this violence? (more…)

The following is an oft-repeated experiment in hypnosis. The subject is hypnotized and told that an ice-cold bucket of water is lukewarm. He is told to put his arm in the bucket. The hypnotist says, “How does it feel?” “Fine.” “Is it uncomfortable at all?” “No, it’s nice and warm.” Then the subject is given paper and a pen and told to let his free hand write without thinking about anything at all, just letting it move by itself.

The hand writes, “Stop the experiment! (more…)

Oh, what a dangerous time of year it is for the likes of me! Every store is bursting at the seams with NEW, with all my favourite spring colours, new shapes and sizes of all the things I (more…)

Join us once a month for lively, facilitated, audience-participatory debate on a variety of topics: farming, privitization, water, you name it! (more…)

Every activist will, several times over the course of his unpaid career, hear the refrain: “I really support (or endorse, or appreciate) your work.” Although moral support is appropriate in some aspects of life, support in relation to activism requires a more specific approach. (more…)

Go Further is Woody Harrelson’s bio-diesel bus trip promoting sustainable living.

Cho Revolution (more…)

There are two principal reasons for going to university which can best be considered separately: getting a degree and getting an education.

Having a university degree is, at least in theory, an entry ticket to a job both well paid and exciting, and as such might justify the considerable expense of an average of $5000 in tuition fees (more…)

A Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright, opens with three questions from
the French painter Gaugin: Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going? It is Wright’s premise that the answers to the first two make the third one answerable as well, if only in “broad strokes”. (more…)