Category: General
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Land Skills for Wellness and Sustainability
This Spring, a new project is starting at the University of Waterloo which will offer students, faculty and staff opportunities to connect with land-based skills and crafts. The project is a collaboration between the Ontario Land Skills Network and the University of Waterloo and is based on research linking craft and skills practice, connection to…
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Thoughts on Moving into Right Relationships
As the Winter turned into Spring I have been getting outside as time permits using my forestry skills to fell some trees for trail clearance, thinning and mushroom log harvest and cutting some cedar for construction projects. We are reopening a trail next to Cold Creek which hasn’t been used for so long it’s got…
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Narratives of “A Neo-Distributist Proposal”
I’ve been thinking about Distributism as a post-growth political economy since reading Hillaire Belloc’s The Serville State a few year ago. In the article below, @ChrisSmaje (Author of #ASmallFarmFuture) outlines four commitments of a possible neo-distributist movement. “These are the four commitments ….as the essence of a neo-distributist movement. First, the autonomy-in-community of local livelihood-making,…
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Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth
This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…
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Doomer Optimism and Narrative Dynamics
This is a series of tweets I publised today as a response to Ashley Colby’s (@RizomaFieldSchool) tweet on hand-washing clothes and dishes. The tweet acted as a perfect attractor for many of the ideas about complexity, economics, narrative and pattern language that I’m researching for my PhD Comps Exam and developing towards the research element.…
James T Jones 