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
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 MBTI personlity...
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 ambitions bare...
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 understood the level of our...
Disrupt for your Grandkids
What's in it for me? is a question influencers realize needs to be addressed. Climate Deniers can't see what's in it for them. Their focus is on what they have to lose in the moment and not on the future. The percentage of Climate Deniers has gone down; however,...
Be Focused Like Greta
If you don't know who Greta Thunberg is, you can Google 15,800,000 results for her. She is a Swedish school girl born in 2003 who is a leader in naming the Climate Crisis for what it is and getting people to listen. She has made many presentations including a TED...
Human Activities Lead to Changes in Climate
According to the European Envirobnmental Agency: Human activities contribute to climate change by causing changes in Earth’s atmosphere in the amounts of greenhouse gases, aerosols (small particles), and cloudiness. The largest known contribution comes from the...
MatchBook Art Slogans
These MatchBook slogans reflect what I have been reading, watching and thinking. I feel so earnest at times. In this batch "Straws Suck" is my favourite. Is it true that people are impacted by something clever and catchy? Or maybe it takes away from the imperative of...
Activism from the Heart
Once you see injustice, it becomes a responsibility of yours. To ignore it is essentially agreeing that it is OK to let it continue as is. White folk have had and continue to have that privilege - we can ignore the reality of others because we don't have to live it. I...
You Are Invited – Sending Postcards Together
Trying to make change happen in a vacuum aka all by oneself seems antithetical to the goal of creating a better future for all. That's what I have been trying to do. DUH! I am inviting YOU to join me in making postcards together. Whether it is two of us or a "party" I...
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