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How's Your Inner Life These Days?

December 2, 2019August 23, 2017

Today instead of a Wednesday links post I’ve decided to write a regular post with a few links thrown in. —- Over the past few … Read more

Tags academia, community, Creativity, cycling, eclipse, editing, history, kayaking, landscape, life, nature, outdoors, place, progress, quiet, social media, thinking, writing

Wednesday on the Web: 16 Aug Edition

December 2, 2019August 16, 2017

This week’s Wednesday on the Web is basically a list of things that make me shake my head. And then some. In the US: 1. … Read more

Tags Barbara Kentner, border wall, Charlottesville, Clean Water Rule, Conservative Party, environment, environmental rules, EPA, First Nations, gardening, human rights, Joseph Boyden, MMIW, neonazis, racism, uspoli, water advisories

Wednesday on the Web – 9 Aug edition

December 2, 2019August 9, 2017

Better late than never, right? This past week I’ve been out riding my bike on the local rail trail, and it’s been smoky from the … Read more

Tags book review, corporations, dark ecology, Dark Mountain Project, democracy, gender, Karieva, Kingsnorth, Matthew Crawford, neo-environmentalism, philosophy, placemaking, scale, scicomm, science blogging, science communication, science writing

Wednesday on the Web – 2 August Edition

December 2, 2019August 2, 2017

What?? It’s August already? Where is the summer going?? Here on Vancouver Island we’re on our 46th day without rain, and are in the middle … Read more

Tags bcecon, bcwildfires, Canada150, cdnsci, diversity, drought, economy, gender, heatwave, maps, mentalhealth, mentalillness, outdoors, scicomm, timber, weather, wildfire, womeninSTEM, writing

Wednesday on the Web – 26 July Edition

December 2, 2019July 26, 2017

This week was fairly quiet on the BC wildfire front, with the exception of some really good news for evacuees. Residents of 100 Mile, 103 … Read more

Tags ABT method, BC wildfire, carbon footprint, COMPASS, cswa, drought, home, kids, Mars, Nancy Baron, NASA, scicomm, science communication, SWCC

Talking About Mental Health

December 2, 2019July 21, 2017

Note: Edited 22 Jul 2017 to add comment from Alex Riley. I’ve had some conversations about mental health lately that have made me think a … Read more

Tags anxiety, bipolar, depression, language, mental health, misconceptions, ocd, science writing, spoonie, writing

Wednesday on the Web – 19 July edition

December 2, 2019July 19, 2017

It’s been a tough week. I’ve had to spend more days in bed than I’d like to, and am feeling the gloomy fingers of depression … Read more

Tags anxiety, biology, bipolar, climate change, depression, doomsday, ethics, mental health, ocd, problems, science writing, scientists, sixth extinction, water, west, writers

Wednesday on the Web: 12 July Edition

December 2, 2019July 12, 2017

BC Wildfires As you can imagine, much of my reading in the past week has focused on the wildfires in BC. I wrote a post … Read more

Tags BC wildfire, cdnsci, Creativity, grizzly bear, salmon, starting again, transitions, west, wildfires, writing, writing process

Western Canadian Wildfires, 2017 Edition

December 2, 2019July 8, 2017

Most of my information focuses on BC wildfires, as that’s what affects me the most. I’ve also included cursory updates for Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon and … Read more

Tags Alberta, british columbia, drought, fire danger, fire risk, heat, northwest territories, saskatchewan, temperatures, weather, wildfire, yukon

Wednesday on the Web: 5 Jul Edition

December 2, 2019July 5, 2017

Science funding in Canada A new report from the Global Young Academy, spearheaded by three Canadian professors, determined that 40% of Canadian scientists had turned … Read more

Tags Anthropocene, applied research, basic research, cdnsci, cli-fi, copy editors, editing, Global Young Academy, Naylor Report, scicomm, science communication, science funding, scipolicy, solastalgia, urban prairie, writing
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