Sep 26, 2016 | Reconnection, Speaker
Based on Heather Menzies’ presentation at Camp Gabriola on August 26, 2016. Part 1 of 2 A politics of hope can prevail over a politics of despair if it’s guided by a vision that itself is grounded in what has worked in the past… when the so-called unseen...
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...
Jan 25, 2015 | Environment, Reconnection
“The People’s Climate” Blog Series, Part 2 “Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good is an admirable, even noble, vision, and expresses very eloquently what will have to be done if humanity is to escape the current race towards disaster.”- Noam Chomsky...
May 26, 2014 | Author, Reconnection
I had only one small clue to guide me: the word Tullicro. It’s where my great, great, great grandfather James Menzies was born, in 1792. Turns out it’s a fermtoun or township, a commons community, half way up into the hills rising on either side of the tumultuous Tay...
May 22, 2014 | Environment, Reconnection
When you’re stuck, you’re stuck because you know you’re at a dead end. You know you’re just flapping your lips, moving words around on the page or in your mouth but without cutting through to something that truly is an alternative to the status quo. I knew that the...
