Water No Straw Please

Water No Straw Please

I have glass straws and metal straws at home.  I have a water bottle with a built in straw. But… What about going to a restaurant? I often order water and my straws are at home so I am training myself to order water with the phrase “water no straw no ice,...
Reduce REFUSE Recycle

Reduce REFUSE Recycle

Refuse Of the 3 missives Reduce Refuse Recycle, REFUSE will have the biggest impact. Our approach to the Climate Crisis requires a 180 degree shift in our mindset. However, we have been bombarded with messages of success including bigger, faster, more, expansion,...
Be an Email Warrior

Be an Email Warrior

How? There are 4 questions that educators use to structure a presentation… Why? What? How? What If?  For the best learning outcome you need to answer them in that order.  Why? Is about what’s important anout this?  What’s in it for me? There are some...
Disrupt the Status Quo

Disrupt the Status Quo

We don’t have time for a moderate or incremental approach. We need to act as if this is a crisis and we need to come together in a new way that is more than business as usual – as Elizabeth May points out; On the climate front, May’s party laid its bold...
Protest Extinction

Protest Extinction

The truth is that I am just coming to realize the depth of what “all living things” and “all my relations” as the Anishinaabe say actually means. I have appreciated the efforts of animal rights activists but at some level I have not really...