by Yule Heibel

There is an awful symmetry between cultural iconoclasts and destroyers of nature. Briony Penn asserts that wilderness is the basis of evolution, that it provides a blueprint for the species, and that the loss of wilderness threatens our physical survival. But large-scale loss of human historical artifacts threatens the survival of cultural memory. At points, […]

A group of investors has purchased a former pulp mill on northern Vancouver Island and plans to turn it into an electrical generating plant. The former mill will burn waste wood chips, which will make it exempt from Kyoto Protocol sanctions. Deteriorating wood emits carbon dioxide whether burned or left to rot naturally, hence it’s […]

Briony Penn is a geographer with a sense of the mythic and the poetic: to protest the logging of Salt Spring Island, she rode her horse through a downtown Vancouver street in January 2001, (un)dressed as Lady Godiva (the picture suggests that perhaps the wig provided some measure of warmth). http://www.streaking.co.uk/relatednewsbrionypenn.htm As the title article […]

In today’s column, Michele Landsberg points out that: “It’s idiocy to pronounce the U.N. ‘irrelevant’ when, in most of the developing world, it is seen as nearly an alternative form of government, and sometimes the only government. Which is, of course, why the neo-con extremists hate it so much. They hate all government that is […]