Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection
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Mountains to Metropolis: The Elbow River Watershed
by Diane Coleman
Every watershed has a story: this is the Elbow’s. The Elbow River watershed is a small yet significant watershed extending from the Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains to downtown Calgary. This geographical watershed is itself at a metaphorical...
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Shasta and Her Cubs
The Struggle for Survival by Lane Robson
One morning in early spring, high in the unforgiving Canadian Rocky Mountains, a young bear gives birth to her first cubs. There are three of them, each hairless, blind, and helpless. Shasta and Her Cubs is the story of that mother’s struggles to...
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The Schizophrenic Society
Lost in a make-believe world while we destroy the real one by Roger Boyd
Why does humanity seem unable to step off its unsustainable path, even with so many direct symptoms - from climate change to ecological destruction and peak resources - becoming more and more apparent? Striving to answer this question, The...
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A Life Outdoors
Essays on Hunting, Gathering and Country Living in the 21st Century by Robert D. Sopuck
The 21st Century is a time of profound and wrenching change. The phrase “stop the world, I want to get off” never seemed more appropriate. Robert Sopuck caught his first fish at age 4 in the presence of his father. That fish set off a lifetime of...
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Eleven
by Paul Hanley
The sweeping changes that make a ‘full world’ work—involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction—will transform global culture, agriculture, and ultimately the human race. ELEVEN is a call to consciousness. Only an ‘ethical...
