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The podcaster

The podcaster

In a bygone era (last summer) where you welcomed people to your home, Andrea Helleman shows up with a vintage hardcover vanity case, like a door-to-door salesperson of yore. But this is no Avon calling or Fuller Brush dude.
Healthy forests mean 
healthy people

Healthy forests mean healthy people

If you look at a forest top from above or below, you might see a pattern of nicely spaced pathways twisting between the trees. This phenomenon is known as "crown shyness.
Letters to the Editor for the week of March 26th

Letters to the Editor for the week of March 26th

We got this The COVID-19 situation has developed rapidly.
Keep your distance, 
save some lives

Keep your distance, save some lives

Yes, it is hard to physically distance ourselves from people. We are social beings and we are used to being able to hug each other, pal around in groups, go to the movies or dinner, or take off together to enjoy the outdoors.
Taking sanctuary

Taking sanctuary

When I wrote this column last week, I was still making jokes about the world ending.
Economic ecology: Zero resilience

Economic ecology: Zero resilience

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a t-shirt guy, favouring threads with provocative slogans. Conversation starters. I find some by accident, seek out others. One I haven't found but have contemplated printing would read: "F*ck the Economy.
Letters to the Editor for the week of March 19th

Letters to the Editor for the week of March 19th

Border should be closed to U.S.
There's no playbook 
for this pandemic

There's no playbook for this pandemic

There can be no doubt that we are living in a new reality. It feels like the very foundation of our community has been rocked and this has left us looking around for answers, guidance, and a path away from the abyss we're facing.
A feast for the powder-hungry

A feast for the powder-hungry

In the Shinto religion, there are 8,000,000 deities or kami .
If corporations have legal rights, why not rivers?

If corporations have legal rights, why not rivers?

A popular sign at climate marches reads, "System Change, Not Climate Change.