Jul 9, 2015 | Environment, Indigenous Rights, Reconnection
If we are to heal the earth, we must also heal ourselves, individually and as communities. Moreover, the two are inter-connected. It’s all about relations — relations of mutual recognition and respect and mutual support and sustainability. It’s also about the...
May 20, 2015 | Environment
I recommend that Rachel Notley bring together not a blue-ribbon commission, but one with a green ribbon and a yellow, black, red and white one to represent the equal voice that will be given to Aboriginal understandings of ‘development’. The election of Rachel Notley...
Mar 30, 2015 | Environment, Reconnection, Social Justice
People working to reclaim cities as habitats, especially habitats that can sustain them with healthy food, water and transportation options, are in a sense reclaiming the commons. Certainly the commons offers a useful heritage to draw on, starting with the shift of...
Feb 4, 2015 | Reconnection
“The People’s Climate” Blog Series, Part 4 When the great Crash, ecologic or economic, comes, Heather Menzies’ brilliant critique will provide an understanding of why it came about, and a path towards a truly sustainable way for humanity to live on the planet....
Jan 28, 2015 | Environment, Reconnection
“The People’s Climate” Blog Series, Part 2 By Heather Menzies, Author of Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good Without ties to the land is to be a broken person. – Scottish proverb As I continued to walk the land my people had walked and worked and with...
