Category: Sustainability
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Sustainability: The Really Long View
This Tuesday I started back as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Waterloo on the undergraduate course ‘Sustainability: The Really Long View’, taught by Prof. Stephen Quilley. It’s the third time I have TA-ed this course and I love it! The course is designed to bring a sense of perspective on the problems we…
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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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Stories Are All Around Us Part 1: Reflections after Narrative Basecamp Session 1
Many years ago in my early 20s when I first started walking in the landscapes UK just for the sheer pleasure of it, I might find a track along the edge of a field, or between two fields, bordered on both or either side by a hedgerow. I would walk along side it, comprehending the…
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Storytelling the Adjacent Possible (part 1)
In which I carve spoons , listen to podcasts and take a brief, meandering walk through post-pandemic society via ‘”doomer optimisim”, situated cognition, Cynefin, beauty and the on-going wonderful experiment at Mount Wolfe Farm. I spent a lovely few hours yesterday making carving billets from a bit of sugar maple and roughing out an eating…