Seeing Social Movement Theory in Christmas Movies
I’m hyper-attuned to building a social movement. In fact, I’m seeing it all over the place, from tight clusters of birds whipping around in their collective unconscious to Christmas movies. Watching Polar Express tonight reminded me of my favourite part of the film near the end. Everyone’s waiting for Santa to come out and play. [...]
Economic Growth is a Cancer: Meet Steady State Economics
For decades I’ve been hearing about and studying how humans are living beyond the planet’s capability of sustaining us…and that we’ve been doing so quite unequally. And what have we done about that? Embraced neoliberal, deregulated free market capitalism: the economic expression of rape and pillage. Reduce, reuse, recycle neglects the real first R: refuse. [...]
The Blue Summit Declaration: A Companion to Copenhagen
I was thrilled to read the Blue Summit Declaration that emerged from last weekend’s Blue Summit in Ottawa celebrating the 10th anniversary of Water Watch. As we head into Copenhagen in a few days, it is critical to assert companion declarations about the sanctity of core elements of life and the symbiotic relationship we must recognize with [...]
Oh Canada, the Climate Criminal
George Monbiot is one of my heroes. The breadth of clarity he brings to issues is quite refreshing. He has finally given in to pressure, thankfully, to start taking shots at our wonderful, glorious, selfless, polite and all-around loving country. Canada is a climate criminal. Stephen Harper and the Conservative-Liberal coalition government are the don [...]
Psychoanalyzing VANOC’s Security Mentality
Below is an interesting piece published this evening about VANOC’s mentality leading into the Olympic Games. It’s not healthy or grounded. Upon first reading, the perspective is shocking. If the journalists are being sensational and loose with the truth, then that might explain it all. If not, here’s how it reads. The first comment about [...]
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