Clean Up: Not Enough
A trip to Blackie Spit in Surrey, BC brings beautiful views and musings on trash cleanups.
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Glimmers of Humanity
Let’s be real: it can be hard to be an environmentalist. Thankfully, the path to environmentalist is littered with glimmers of humanity: real, authentic human beings being GOOD. I think it’s safe to say though, that the life of someone hell-bent on saving the planet is not always an easy one. In fact, I think…
Back to the Old Ways
We are parked alongside the highway, joining the throngs of cars parks on either side of this busy road, as far as the eye can see. We hike through a lush, green forest, the path occasionally littered with the evidence of humans that have come before (and blackberry brambles, from which we feast). Finally, we…
Fresh-Pressed Madness
“What can we do?” This was matter-of-factly stated to me by a conscious human, at a health-foods store (Lower Mainland, BC) in regards to the scourge of plastic plaguing the aisles of our grocery stores, the coffee cups we sip from, and the bottles we house our water, juice, and sodas in. *face-palm* In the…
It’s the Little Things…
I spend a lot of time mulling over blog posts, that eventually get forgotten, stuck in the “draft posts” folder, accumulating dust and never seeing the light of day. But the beauty of a blog is that it can be anything: off-the-cuff musings and/or fully researched articles. I like a healthy combination of both and…