This is the south east view of Kwakwaka’wakw the Village of Ba’a’s (Blunden Harbour) in 1901. Vancouver Art Gallery, all rights reserved Emily Carr used this photograph taken by Charles Frederick Newcombe in 1901 as a template for her famous painting. Almost nothing of the buildings and totems at Blunden Harbour survives today. Blunden…
Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC
Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC I want to start with these numbers and graphs from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii. One graph shows the CO2 increase from 2016 to 2020, and the other one shows the increase from 1960 to 2020. You are all probably quite familiar with these graphs and measurements…
The No/Fly Movement
Whether you’re on the ground supporting the no-fly movement, or because of COVID-19 your travel life has been a little odd over the last couple of years – maybe you found different or other things to do. Perhaps you discovered a kind of recreation that wasn’t available to previous generations in times of lockdown or…
Comox Glacier lost 80 vertical feet in 7 years. 2013/2020
September 28th 2020 On September 28th, 2020, continuing an ongoing seven year project, I took a close-up photograph of the Comox Glacier, showing new rock exposure on all sides of the glacier, and a new big exposed rock right in the middle. This means the glacier will probably continue to melt not only from the…
Fishermen find Utopia in Nootka Sound
Tales of Tyee and the abundance of life that was Nootka Sound before the turn of the century
BC hydro Dams environmentally could be as bad as the Alberta Oil Sands
Homes are heated by wood, oil, gas, and BC Hydro. The hazards of wood, oil and gas are well known but there is a major environmental cost of BC Hydro’s dams, a lot of it unseen, and little known to the public, which must be included in this discussion. 1- Thousands of productive salmon runs…