Robert Lovelace’s analogy for how colonization happened in Canada.
I think parts of this can be applied to other ‘settled’ lands, too. Lovelace did a pretty great job, so give it a read!
Click for Chickens: Colonialism for Dummies (a story about chickens to help explain Canadian history) | rabble.ca
https://www.nfb.ca/film/normas_story#temp-share-panel
Norma Kassi’s true story about living off the land and the changes to her environment due to climate change.
It is important to realize that in Southern Canada and the USA, we may not feel the impacts as much as the people in the North or people in countries overseas do. The lands and the people on it are impacted the most, yet they are in no way contributing to the increase of Carbon dioxide and other Green House Gasses in the same scale.
This is a beautiful short film, with an important message:
Tread Lightly
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p.s. Sorry I can’t get the embed file to work, just click the link!
Please click-through and watch the video on Vimeo!
Be mindful of the actions you partake in and if those actions help to continue life, or destroy it.
2 years after this film was made, fracking is still an issue. Do you think we will ever open our eyes and begin to make vital changes? Or is the future too far away to plan for…
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Relevant posts:
Resource Extraction and it’s impact on peoples’ health
Bracelets for a good cause! Help support coastal & beach cleanup projects by purchasing a stylish nautical rope bracelet. available in blue, green, brown & grey.
Source: Marine Debris Awareness | Recycled Nautical Rope Bracelets – Planet Love Life
A friend of mine shared this with me and I think it would be one of the best ways to give a gift this year! They are so beautiful, too.
Check out my post about plastic in our oceans if you want to know more.
With climate talks well underway at COP21, where do the provinces stand on climate change and what are their strategies moving ahead?
So far it looks like Quebec is doing the best.
Source: Where do the provinces stand on climate change? | rabble.ca
The new Waste Free Ontario Act is a great step in the right direction towards a zero waste circular economy.
Source: New Waste Free Ontario Act – a great start – Toronto Environmental Alliance
A little story about earth.
“Too many people in such a small place.
Over-population by this human race
They beat you down, say ‘Learn your place
As part of a statistic called the human race
Fat rats breed us toward our own annihilation
Hiding ideas that’d be our salvation”
Bad Acid Trip is the best. I want them to come to Canada!!!
Committee on the status of endangered wildlife in Canada
& some more cool things about endangered/at risk species:
A documentary about the sinking of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior in 1985 on their way to protest France’s nuclear testing in the Pacific.
I am doing a presentation about this historic event in class today. I thought it may be important to know some of the history behind groups like Greenpeace and their efforts for a better, more sustainable world.
“When the world is sick and dying, the people will rise up like Warriors of the Rainbow” — Cree First Nations Prophecy.
An Interactive Dive of the Rainbow Warrior’s Resting Place – It is beautiful how coral has grown over the ship!
The cruel yet lucrative shark fin trade is back in the headlines (August 2015)
Source: Fishermen confirm shark finning on tuna longliners | Greenpeace International
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