In a recent phone conversation with my parents, I was telling them how I hadn’t received my Shaw statement in the mail, the second time in five months. The first time I called Shaw to report it, they blamed Canada Post and said I should go after them. They refused […] Read More
I got a rip snortin’ deal on Groupon for a two-night stay at the Mayne Island Resort. Now I’m trying to get there and BC Ferries is not making it easy for me. I’m going mid-week and my options for a direct sailing are 10:10 in the morning or 7:20 […] Read More
I have a thing for shoes. I worked in a shoe store when I was in my teens where my paycheque rarely made it home. So my feet got all tingly last weekend when I tuned in to CBC Radio’s North by Northwest and heard host Sheryl MacKay interviewing an […] Read More
If you haven’t seen the impassioned plea from the chief negotiator for the Philippines at the UN climate talks in Warsaw yet, watch it now below. Yeb Sano appealed for international cooperation the day after another typhoon slammed his country. We are watching the devastating effects of Haiyan nightly on […] Read More
My prolific friend David Tracey has just written another book: The Earth Manifesto. The launch for his latest creation is tonight at People’s Co-op Bookstore in Vancouver. Here’s a description of the book in David’s own words, “The Earth Manifesto is meant to be an antidote to the dread many […] Read More
Good news on the salmon front last week. Chum salmon returned to the very urban Still Creek for the second year in a row. Many folks are involved in the continuing restoration and enhancement of this creek including the City of Vancouver, City of Burnaby, BCIT, Still Moon Arts Society […] Read More
A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting […] Read More
Tis the rainy season. Fortunately, there’s brightness on the horizon with the advent of craft fairs and culture crawls. I’m heading to Circle Craft tonight to start my Christmas shopping. (Right, last time a friend and I did the craft fair circuit we bought more for ourselves than anyone else.) […] Read More
I’m rereading Paul Hawken’s Ecology of Commerce. I’m searching for a quote I know I read the first time through where he defines what true capitalism is (he claims we haven’t actually tried it yet). The book is so brilliant; I highly recommend it if you haven’t read it. Here’s […] Read More
On my run the other day I was blown away by how many leaf blowers I saw. Homeowners and hired gardeners were blowing perfectly good leaves off the garden areas out from under shrubs and trees. Why oh why aren’t they leaving them in place? Does bare dirt really look […] Read More