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Occupy TimeBarbara Leckie

Barbara Leckie — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:00:26 +0000

A week ago the world outside my window in Ottawa was covered in snow. But today—in the month when people make resolutions, seek to realize resolutions, or reject resolutions—it is raining. I can hear the rain as I write. It would be a soothing sound if it did not also sound like the chronicle [...]

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Q&A with Jessica Gaitán JohannessonToby Litt

Jessica Gaitán Johannesson — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:00:15 +0000

Although it looks quite slim, The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response is a really big, ambitious, global book that speaks very clearly to lots of aspects of the present moment. It insists on an intimate relation between the individual body and the whole environment. It’s very moving and full of insights. How [...]

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Contagious TalesEdited by Andrew Simms

Katie Percival — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:00:30 +0000

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Cantadora and the Path of HopeWhitney McVeigh

Whitney McVeigh — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:00:18 +0000

The globally-resonant word ‘cantadora’ is a play on the Spanish/Italian/Portuguese word ‘cantador,’ meaning singer. Part of an ancient oral tradition, it refers to storytelling that arises from personal and collective history. In the many landscapes that have shaped me as a human, and as an artist, I have found and experienced cantadora again and [...]

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Read: Telling the Story of Climate CrisisPhilip Seargeant

toby — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 07:51:40 +0000

There was a meme circulating a few months ago which contrasted the competing virtues of Greta Thunberg and the Dutch inventor Boyan Slat as poster children for the climate movement. Both Greta and Boyan are young, idealistic and passionately committed to environmental causes. They were both still teenagers when they first came to public prominence. [...]

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