The Arctic Grail
No oil slicks on the carpet, please Launching Pierre Berton’s The Arctic Grail Originally published in November, 1988 As photo opportunities go, the book launch for Pierre Berton’s The Arctic Grail was...
View ArticleInuvik History
Inuvik History Project In 2006 I was approached by Dick Hill, the first mayor and long-time resident of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, to work with him in transforming his extensive notes and photos...
View ArticleThe Conquest of a Continent
A review of The Conquest of a Continent Siberia & The Russians by W. Bruce Lincoln, Random House, 1994 Originally published in 1994 Siberia and Canada have much in common by way of geography and...
View Article‘Are we there yet?’ The uncertain road to the twenty-first century.
Also published at Resilience.org. What made the twentieth century such a distinctive period in human history? Are we moving into the future at an ever-increasing speed? What measures provide the most...
View ArticleMore than one way to fall off a cliff
Also published at Resilience.org. The “energy cliff” is a central concept in ecological economics, and it’s based on a very simple ratio. But for me this principle was a slippery thing to grasp, and I...
View ArticleAn enthusiastic embrace of a mysterious planet
Also published at Resilience.org. Let’s face it, most of us don’t love the environment most of the time. More often than not, the environment is too cold, too hot, too buggy, too dry or too wet, and we...
View ArticleCan big science be sustained?
Reflections on Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek Also published on Resilience During a long career at the frontiers of physics Frank Wilczek has earned many honours, including a Nobel Prize for Physics in...
View ArticleThe fat-takers cross the oceans
Also published on Resilience Ecological overshoot is a global crisis today, but the problem did not begin with the fossil fuel age. From its beginnings more than five centuries ago, European...
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