Artificial Scarcity: Overproduction, Demand Management, and the Ecological Cost of Stabilizing Commodity Agriculture
For more than a century, North American agriculture has lived inside the wrong story about scarcity. The public story…
From Symptoms to Systems: What Participating in a Narrative Network Looks Like in Practice
This blog puts a practical side to my previous blog on “Beyond Production Narrative: Reclaiming Landscapes as Commons”. Leaders…
Beyond Production Narrative: Reclaiming Landscapes as Commons
It is easy to underestimate how culture changes. Not because it moves slowly—though it often does—but because culture change…
Why Climate Change Can Make Winter Driving More Dangerous
This is the first of several posts on hedgerow removal, and how it makes living in rural Ontario increasingly…
Why the Climate Movement Treats Biofuel Mandates As a Minor Issue – Mistakenly!
Land, carbon stocks, climate self‑regulation, and the blind spots of emissions‑first climate politics.
Land Sharing vs. Land Sparing: A Review on Conservation, Agroecology, and Ecosystem-Embedded Farming
Introduction The debate between land sharing and land sparing is one of the most influential discussions in modern conservation and…
From Mixed Farms to Regeneration: Reviving Ontario’s Biodiverse Countryside
This essay argues that Ontario’s biodiversity crisis can only be reversed by transforming farmland into regenerative landscapes that merge…
Climate Action or Climate Division? How Language Undermines the Environmental Movement
By now, we’ve all seen it. Every environmental initiative, no matter how tangentially related, is increasingly packaged under the…
Intricacies when the one-eyed are leading the blind – on the difficulty of teaching climate change
When my child came home from her recent science class, she vividly captures one of the greatest challenges in…
Vision for Grey Bruce: Can We Keep Our Landscapes Alive?
1. A Landscape Teeming with Life – The Grey Bruce of the Late 20th Century For much of the last…
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