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Category Archives: History and Ecology

  • I was in Peteborough, Ontario yesterday for my research and I had the pleasure of sitting down for tea and conversation with Professor Tom [...]

    Bonds of Respect and Affection

    November 16, 2011
  • When I drive down to visit my family I come through Pennsylvania and get to see a pretty substantial cross-section of the state. Depending on the [...]

    Pennsylvania

    September 15, 2011
  • James Laxer has written a lot about the Alberta oil industry and the tar sands development. I’ve attached a link to his latest blog [...]

    James Laxer on the tar sands

    September 3, 2011
  • This past week I posted a blog quesitoning the legitimacy of economics. I am sure it takes a certain amount of hubris to do this but I am really [...]

    Winning Virtue Through Work

    August 28, 2011
  • In the words of Arthur Schopenhauer: “A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any [...]

    A thought on comfort and pain

    August 9, 2011
  • It is very difficult to find a word or a term that adequately describes the commitment I feel to protecting the ecological fabric of our world. [...]

    Environmentalism and Ideology (can they get along?)

    July 31, 2011
  • At the heart of my dissertation research is an extended examination of political ideology and how ideas came about and changed over a set period [...]

    Indigenous Thought

    July 18, 2011
  • Drought is a major issue around the world this year along with extreme heat (again). I remember three years ago I attended a talk Professor Brian [...]

    A Look At Drought

    July 17, 2011
  • I have spent more than a decade studying politics and political ideologies and began my search a liberal democrat and an environmentalist. I used [...]

    Anarchism

    April 24, 2011
  • Canada is an oddly inaccessible place. You can cross into Southern Ontario from Queenston, New York and within minutes, on a clear day, will gaze [...]

    My Education: Canada and Personal Paradoxes

    March 31, 2011

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