Weyakpa Najin Win (Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. I've shared her talks before, because she has changed the way I look at the world, and fed my hope for different possibilities, around climate and justice. In this talk, she speaks with … Continue reading When you ask an Indigenous grandmother “What could possibly go right?”, you better brace yourself

https://buildingmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Final-Mapping-Ecosystem-Guide-CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0-Handles.pdf Are you a healer, a builder, a disruptor, an emergency responder? You're needed. A storyteller? An experimenter? Yeah, we need you too. We all have a role to play. Or, as Pat McCabe phrases it, we all have a place on the sacred hoop of life. It can feel overwhelming when you first encounter … Continue reading Mapping our roles in social change ecosystems – bring your joy

I have grave concerns about the direction some people are choosing to go in when dealing with mandates, protocols and responding to posts and articles. My most recent Facebook post was to relate an unpleasant experience that I had with a local business owner who closed his door in my face and told me to … Continue reading Cruel Isn’t Cool

I heard Eco with Em's Emily Ehlers on the Futuresteading podcast and have been following her ever since - how can you not crush on someone whose book is called "Hope is a Verb" and who decided to channel her climate anxiety into cute art that makes change feel feasible. Because, I think, most of … Continue reading Lunch Ideas…. and GO!

‘Unprecedented’ has become the new normal, says the SLRD's Protective Services department. In providing an annual recap to the Board last week, the team recounted that an Emergency Operation Centre was active for 121 days in 2021 - for three main events -- June heatwaves with surface flooding from extreme glacier and snowmelt conditions, summer … Continue reading ‘Unprecedented’: 19 evacuation alerts, 16 evacuation orders issued by SLRD last year, because CLIMATE

Thanks to a new Facebook page, For the Love of Food, local folks are sharing recipe successes, because sometimes, we all need a little help to get out of our food ruts... Thanks to Erica Hurtubise for sharing and to Vicki Powell for testing and sharing this one, from the Whitewater Cooks Together Again cookbook.

Today, we are midway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It's also known as Imbolc, or Brigid's Day, Groundhog Day, or Candlemas, depending on how your belief system skews. Essentially, it's the moment when daylight is lengthening, and we might see the first glimpses of the shift in seasons. The Sun’s path has … Continue reading What is a seed, but a package of hope with its own operating instructions

The Spel̓kúmtn Community Forest (SCF) will be conducting harvesting operations in the Mackenzie area over the next couple of months. Heavy machinery and equipment will be using the Mackenzie FSR. If you are currently using the trails in the area please respect all posted signage and refrain from parking on the FSR as not to … Continue reading Logging underway at the Spel’kumtn Community Forest, via MacKenzie Basin Road

This is my question for this year... or my intention slash resolution... to feel enough. Not enough as in "I've snapped, I have had enough," or "effing pandemic" or "Oh, I think that last piece of turkey breast put me over the edge, and now I've definitely had enough." Enough, in the sense of: at … Continue reading What would it be like, to feel, ENOUGH?

I've heard this said - that "nature" - as an entity separate from us, that we need to care for, or enter for our health, or stop wrecking, isn't actually a thing. There isn't anything called "Nature" that is outside of us, or beyond us, or distinct from us. It is a concept grounded in … Continue reading Nature doesn’t actually exist. You are Nature. Nature is you.