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Canadian mining and violence
March 29, 2019
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When you have oil pipeline companies, who needs satire?
April 29, 2014
Giant U.S. oil/energy mega-corp Kinder Morgan has applied to triple the size of a pipeline across British Columbia, bringing dirty bitumen-laced oil from the Alberta Tar Sands. “Public” hearings to assess the application have been notoriously non-public.
Over 1000 dolphins escort ferry near Vancouver
November 2, 2013
Great video shot on Hallowe’en, October 31, 2013. Over 1000 dolphins swim alongside a BC Ferries vessel on its way to Vancouver through Georgia Strait.
CBC report confirms they’re Pacific white-sided dolphins which usually congregate farther out to sea.
What temperate rainforest looks like
June 4, 2013
This photo was taken by my colleague Ken Wu, an environmental advocate with BC’s Ancient Rainforest Alliance. The photo was actually taken in Washington State, not far from here. He says this is the Quinault Rainforest in Olympic National Park, “the mossiest temperate rainforest in existence with almost all the record-size trees of the region, just about my favourite place on the West Coast!”
As part of my other design job with a group called Commons BC, I was involved in the fight against Bill 8 which would have privatized vast areas of BC’s forests.
“Christy Clark just wants your love”
February 27, 2013
It might be hard to fully appreciate the brilliance of this performance unless you’re familiar with the vocal mannerisms of British Columbia’s Premier Christy Clark. But this mimicry is easily as good as Tiny Fey doing Sarah Palin.
Surveillance camera map, Vancouver
November 17, 2012
Very nice map of surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver, by the Vancouver Public Space Network.
Disturbing content aside, it’s a very attractive map.
Roy Henry Vickers gallery, Tofino
September 7, 2012
Roy Henry Vickers‘ gallery in Tofino, BC. The face of the building, similar to the style of a First Nations longhouse or “plank house,” was painted and handcarved by the artist, whose background is Haida, Heiltsuk and Tsimshian.
West Coast cabin – Clayoquot Sound, B.C.
September 6, 2012
The cabin is probably the true vernacular architecture of British Columbia’s West Coast and other parts of the Pacific Northwest. Vancouver must once have had some of these buildings, thought rampant demolition and ugly development are doing their best to eradicate any trace of this architectural past.
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In praise of hemp – as textile, as paper, as food source
August 7, 2012
Seeing the above graphic on Facebook recently (source wasn’t credited) reignited my longstanding frustration over our global failure to switch (back) to hemp as a major source for textiles, paper and food.
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Pack horse trip in the Northern Rockies: Muskwa-Kechika
July 9, 2012
[Update: The Globe and Mail has finally run the story about our trip. Wilderness guide and Globe travel writer Bruce Kirkby came along on our leg of the ride.]
I just spent two weeks out of internet range, riding through the remote Northern Rockies on horseback.
