John Hollins, Chair CACOR Board of Directors Book Review. Reinventing Prosperity by Graeme Maxton and Jurgen Randers Greystone / David Suzuki Foundation, 2016 A review “For most of the last thirty years, unemployment has been rising in the rich world, while the gap between rich and poor has been widening. This is not what conventional […]
Columbus and Other Cannibals
Columbus and Other Cannibals Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. […]
Book Review: “Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History of the 20th Century” by John Higgs
Book Review: “Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History of the 20th Century” by John Higgs Author: John Verdon, Ottawa. Future Shock is alive and well – in fact it is safe to say that we are all refugees from our own childhood. And because the world is changing so rapidly it is difficult […]
The Call of the Forest
“CALL OF THE FOREST is a film of rare significance. It draws the viewer into the green world that sustains life on this planet at a crucial ecological point, and is an introduction to the work of Diana Beresford-Kroeger, one of the least known but most important people on the planet.” – Annie Proulx, Award-winning […]
What We as a People Can Do
Citizen action on climate change is needed to facilitate change, and, by extension, change in other fields too. This week’s post features a chapter in a recent book Our Renewable Future by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley. “. . . we must also show that we as citizens are ready for climate policies by proactively […]