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Remembering Dorothy Stowe, 1920-2010
Dorothy Stowe would be 100 today. She passed away peacefully ten years ago in Vancouver, where she co-founded Greenpeace with her husband Irving and other Vancouver pacifists and ecologists.
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Thresholds, cascades, and wicked problems
I remember thinking, in the 1970s, that once people became aware of the ecological crisis -- disappearing species, polluted rivers, poisoned air -- that the necessary changes would be simple.
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Our Entangled World
I found myself pondering deeper questions, such as what it means to identify one species from another, how evolution really works, and how the complexity of soil ecology might inform us about the challenges of human survival and social cohesion.
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Remembering Bob Hunter: Mind Bomber
"Revolution these days is a communications struggle, a war of images." - Bob Hunter, 1941 - 2005
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An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists
There are over a million ecology books in print, and sorting through them might be a challenge. These are some of the essential classics in the field.
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Meet the women of West Africa who are fighting for our oceans
"The livelihoods of women are the livelihoods of a nation.’’ - Thando Kimora, climate activist from South Africa
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Dorothy Metcalfe: 1931 – 2019
Dorothy's political savvy and journalist network made the campaign a huge story across Canada and the US.
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How do you start a global environmental movement?
We speak to young activists from the Climate Strikes and one of the founders of Greenpeace to find out how they started global movements.
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Extinction and Rebellion
"One of the strengths of 1960s social rebellion was a union of art and politics. That spirit appears to be flowering again."