CHERYL LYON Grandmother Power “It’s knowing what our children are heading for that gets me out of bed every morning!” That was my grandmother talking, my kookum. Me, I was just home from getting my PhD in physics at a European university. She had detected my cocky certainty about just […]
SUE SAUVE – Perhaps it is no accident that bicycles were designed to only pedal forward. They are bringing us to the future we are trying to create. Bicycles are a pillar of health for urban dwellers and a cornerstone of sustainability. The City of Peterborough’s new Cycling Master Plan […]
GÜNTHER SCHUBERT – For as long as humans have roamed the planet we have created garbage. Away back then, it might have been a pile of animal bones, vegetable rinds or worn clothes. For the last one hundred or so years, we have created piles of plastic, glass, paper, rubber […]
50+ STUDENTS! 32+ PROJECTS! 27+ HOSTS! CHERYL LYON – A jam-packed space, a loud buzz of excitement at the Trent U Student Centre on 21 March as the Trent Community Research Centre (TCRC) celebrated more than 25 years of undergraduate students’ community research. The Greenzine was there to find out […]
Part 6 in the Councillor Cado series Cheryl Lyon – On “Councillor Cado Part 5: The Night of The Banner,” we left the Watershed Peterborough Councillors on the verge of a vote for an urban farm or a housing development on a vacant piece of land. Emotions were running high. […]
Part 5 in the Councillor Cado series CHERYL LYON – In Part 4, “The Big Heat”, the Watershed Peterborough Councillors were meeting in the throes of an unprecedented and deadly heat wave. A UN report in 2022 that had found “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place” had come true. […]
Music “video”.
Norah von Bieberstein Talks with the Greenzine about the Youth Climate Action Club (YCAC) CHERYL LYON – With a snow storm raging outside on January 25, the Greenzine “Zoomed” in on Norah von Bieberstein at home with her parent, Ziysah. Norah is a Kaawate Elementary School student in Grade 4 […]
Adapted by Norah and Ziysah von Bieberstein from the original song lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda We’re the strong ones, we’re not nervousWe’re as tough as the crust of the earth isWe fight for what concerns usAnd we glow ’cause we know what our worth is We know how hard all […]
Part 1 PETER CURRIER – When George Guessworthy of Climate Crunch and builder Clive Mason last met, they discussed the manifestations of ecological abuse – the lifestyles and tech aspects, with an on-the-ground look at how planet Earth reached a state of crisis. As they continue their dialogue here they […]
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