suppose we divest from busy culturefrom convincing each other we arecapable, productive suppose we embrace our pacerelease ourselves fromthe impossiblethe profanethe shame-fuelled task of proving ourselves worthy I am worthyhereunder this willowby this effortlessly rushing creek I am worthyin stillnessin processin ease I am worthyas are youas are we and […]
CHERYL LYON The Correction: Wrong Information in a Greenzine article The June 9, 2023 article “Local Living Through the Climate Crisis” stated that Earth “had already passed 1.5⁰C.” Globally, as an average, it has not yet passed that mark. The GREENZINE apologizes. In fact, that global average temperature went beyond […]
“I am not suggesting that we ought to ignore yesterday’s news. Rather, I am demanding that we start talking creatively, yet seriously, about today and tomorrow. We want to have a choice other than denial or depression. We want to channel our outrage and our dread and our exhaustion.” Alexandria […]
A Deeper Dive into the Future Our climate projections for 2500 show an Earth that is alien to humans Christopher Lyon, McGill University; Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds; Andrew P. Beckerman, University of Sheffield; Ariane Burke, Université de Montréal; Bethany Allen, University of Leeds; Chris Smith, University of Leeds; Daniel J. […]
EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE -The best gatherings of human beings always involve food − be it friends in a cafe, happy or solemn family occasions or sharing oranges at a kids’ soccer game. But, keeping local food on our plates and supporting local farmers depends on what happens in other “Big Issues”: […]
Part 3: How to Get to The “Next Economy” EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE – Part One of this series delved into the importance of relearning and nurturing a true “sense of place” that can lead to the local knowledge, caring and action needed to re-adapt ourselves and community to worsening climate change. […]
PETER CURRIER Clive Mason is a TrentU sustainable studies grad with a young family who turned to contracting after graduation. George Guessworthy is retired local volunteer for a Peterborough advocacy group, Climate Crunch. They have met at Clive’s place a couple of times for Climate Crunch and now George is […]
LAURA KERESZTESI – As the adage goes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second-best time is now. Let’s dig in, Peterborough! Peterborough has committed to have at least a 35% urban tree canopy by 2051 to meet climate targets. Urban tree canopy is the […]
Part 2. The Next Economy EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE − In Part One we introduced the notion of ourselves as “children of our geography,” realizing that our lives totally depend on Nature’s “economy” − the ‘community’ of sunlight, water, soil, plant life that supports all life. We introduced the term “localization.” This […]
FRED IRWIN “The Great Unraveling” is a phrase used by Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute by which he means how “the growing consequences of the climate and broader ecological emergency are expected to increasingly destabilize societies around the world….“Humanity is approaching a bottleneck, and the only way through […]
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