COMPASSIONATE CLIMATE ACTION

If I don't talk this week about last Sunday's release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Global Warming of 1....

Somehow, through sheer coincidence or rather eerie synchronicity, it's exactly one year since my last post. Last fall, I started this...

I've been quite buoyed lately by the hard work and legal successes of Our Children's Trust in the United States. It's one NG...

Charlotte's beautiful eagle, after storytelling in the woods I seem to do at least one nifty thing every summer that I want to shar...

We attended a lecture (we had to leave early, so missed the "public forum" part) the other night by Professor Richard Smith, Rut...

There seems to be an upsurge in fault-finding and aspersion-casting these days. But the wrong people are taking the flak. Why are the ...

Blog Action Day is this Wednesday, October 16 and this year's theme is human rights. So you can probably already guess what my questi...

I've just spent the last few days attending my first meeting of the British Columbia Teachers Federation Committee for Action on Socia...

A friend told me yesterday that my blog posts often sound frustrated. I would like to point out that I have written a handful of positive po...

I wrote this on Friday, 10 May 2013. That was the day of my husband's mother's funeral. It was therefore a sad day for us, but a...

I learned a new expression yesterday. Ho'oponopono. It means "It is also my fault. Please forgive me." Ho'oponopono is...

My best friend and life partner, my husband, is ill. Not with the flu or a cold but with something much scarier, a repeat of an illness ...

When I talk with people who are moderately interested in the climate change crisis about why nothing is happening, they tend to all tell m...

It's been quite a while since I offered a Compassion Tune-up. This time round, it's a Christian rock song from a group called 4Him, ...

We are a culture that eats its children and grandchildren. — Tom Brown, Jr. I read the abstract of an article this week about aquifer over...

While kids are often reminded to respect their elders, we oldsters aren't often prompted to respect our youngers. But children certain...

Regular readers know that my husband spends hours and hours every day reading and synthesizing the research on global warming and climate ch...