Braiding Sweetgrass

Economic localization offers multi-faceted solutions to the problems created by globalization.

Means of Production Garden: "Located in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of Vancouver, Means of Production (MOP) garden was created in 2002 by artist Oliver Kellhammer, in partnership with the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA), Community Arts Council of Vancouver ( CACV) and the Vancouver Park Board. Kellhammer’s original conception was to create an ‘open source’ landscape where people could experiment growing their own botanical materials for art and craft use and for the garden to be a community ‘hub’ where ongoing investigations into art and ecology would take place." -- website

The newly founded “no questions asked” money freestore to support our non- regular faculty.
"MARFEC / Our aim is to provide direct support to non-regular faculty at Emily Carr University within a structure of mutual aid and reciprocity, and to take seriously what it means to live collectively on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples" -- website description

"Aristotle House (Oxford), and other lending institutions, have extended the function of the library from books + media to virtually anything...tools, services, ingredients. Cost is free to use, provided you’re in the community, and sharing - giving to receive - is deeply encouraged." -- Reading group participant

Ronald J. Deibert is the founder and director of Citizen Lab, a research outfit based at the University of Toronto, which studies technology, surveillance and censorship. -- website

"...An initiative from several environmental organizations to push the European Union to tackle their forest destruction footprint. Anyone can submit it. It does not need to come just from members of the EU." -- Reading group participant

"We inhabit a moment characterized by the emergence of multiple, entangled crises: destruction of natural ecosystems, growing inequality, and the rise of toxic ideologies across the globe and here in BC. Urgent steps are needed to slow and cease ecologically, culturally and socially destructive systems and redistribute power to those with place-based knowledge and sensitivity to contextual conditions."

Since 2004, the Origami Whales Project (OWP) has worked to raise awareness concerning threats to cetaceans (dolphins and whales) through its stunning and memorable "Curtain of 38,000 Origami Whales."* Created by thousands of concerned citizens across the globe and exhibited throughout the world, this large-scale public art project serves as a powerful visual statement and memorial for the thousands of individual whales killed since the 1986 ban on commercial whaling." -- Peggy Oki's website

Jenna Rose's Blog.

"Dr. Bach's Original Flower Remedies, a system of 38 Flower Remedies to help mankind achieve joy and happiness" -- Bach website

“Science asks us to learn about organisms, traditional knowledge asks us to learn from them.”

Karen Barad discusses the concept of intra-actions. An interview by Adam Kleinman from mousse 34.

"In his 2003 Massey lecture, award-winning author and scholar Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination. Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples." -- CBC

"Ta7talíya Nahanee joins Am Johal to discuss her work in creating social change through decolonial facilitation, rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing and chenchenstway, the law of lifting each other up. Ta7talíya shares her journey of founding Decolonizing Practices, developing Sínulhkay and Ladders, and how she engages people in conversations about redress, land equity, privilege, and resisting the comfort of complacency in neocolonial systems. She also speaks to Indigenous language resurgence, decolonizing identity, and the idea that decolonization is an ongoing and personal process of self-actualization." -- Soundcloud

"There’s dark matter in the cosmos, and inside us, and hidden beneath our feet. Robert Macfarlane is an explorer and linguist of landscape and his book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, is an odyssey that’s full of surprises — from caves and catacombs under land, under cities, and under forests to the meltwater of Greenland. “Since before we were Homo sapiens,” he writes, “humans have been seeking out spaces of darkness in which to find and make meaning.” Darkness in the natural world and in human life, he suggests, is a medium of vision — and descent, a movement toward revelation."

"The 2009 Massey Lectures series, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, is an enlightening, awe-inspiring and cautionary look at vanishing cultures and languages from one of the world’s most celebrated anthropologists."
Five audio lectures are available through the ECU Library subscription to CBC Curio.

"Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples." -- CBC website

FitzGerald, Emmett (producer). "For the Love of Peat." 99% Invisible, 13 Oct 2020. Accessed 8 Jul 2021, https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-the-love-of-peat/

"Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called "the culture of narcissism." To Taylor, self-fulfillment, although often expressed in self-centered ways, isn't necessarily a rejection of traditional values and social commitment; it also reflects something authentic and valuable in modern culture. Only by distinguishing what is good in this modern striving from what is socially and politically dangerous, Taylor says, can our age be made to deliver its promise." -- CBC website

The wetland project - 24 hour broadcast of mudflats - other than human radio

Has great Indigenous and Métis and other local community shows.

FUTURE ECOLOGIES IS A PODCAST ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS – BETWEEN, WITHIN, AMONGST, AND ALL AROUND US.
Made for audiophiles and nature lovers alike, every episode is an invitation to see your world in a new light – set to original music & immersive soundscapes, and weaving together interviews with expert knowledge holders.

From Moral to Market Sentiments
The Reith Lectures 2020: Mark Carney - How We Get What We Value
The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first Director-General.

Kimmerer, Robin. "Why is the world so beautiful? An Indigenous botanist on the spirit of life in everything." Tapestry, CBC Radio. 27 Nov 2020.
Written by Mary Hynes. Produced by Arman Aghbali and Rosie Fernandez.

"This work began in my mouth with my voice and moved down to my feet, and the earth. My art practice explores themes of communication, identity and the body. My current trajectory is rooted in language, (mis)communications and failures to communicate. This work to the form of parabolas investigating shape, as an interment for communication both formally and conceptually. More recently I have been focusing on ideas of fluency and understanding in the context of my Potawatomi and Lenape ancestry. Having no direct access to my ancestral Aboriginal languages has inspired me to explore the notion of communication without words." -- Dion Fletcher

Tuwanek, shíshálh swiya (Sechelt), Sunshine Coast, BC.
"Through residencies, retreats, supported research, commissioned projects, learning experiments, curated events and tactical discussions, Coppermoss supports ideas and practices considering the edge of nature and human activity. We are driven by a commitment to decolonial futurities, and seek to work with collaborators who imagine through responsible action and radical thinking."

"The Phenology Clock project sees the creation of annual clocks that show the timing of life cycle events for species in specific urban ecosystems. Shown are two clocks prepared for the ecosystems of Sydney and New York and that explore a relation in time and space.
They are part of a project developed at the Environmental Health Clinic with Natalie Jeremijenko, Jake Richardson, Blacki Migliozzi and others. To see more information and a detailed clock for London phenology data, visit the site here. The Phenology Clock is also accompanied by a workshop that is documented here.
The Phenology Clock has been supported by the Australia Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body." -- Website description

“38” from WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier.