Thinking about our Climate Crisis
Facing our Climate Crisis Together 11.30.21 My background and beliefs I am a 79-year-old white male with two careers—health and writing/publishing. I am a Quaker driven by the principles of...
Category: Carbon Couple
HARP publishers and editors Dorothy Lander and John Graham-Pole believe that the climate emergency is the most urgent issue for population health and health equity. As part of HARP’s mission to use the arts to raise awareness of public health issues for a popular readership, we are creating this blog, Travels with a Low-Carbon Couple. We will tell our stories and record the challenges and triumphs we encounter as we attempt to reduce our carbon footprint and draw attention to the climate emergency.
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Hope in a Time of Plague
The climate crisis is the single greatest concern that all of us have to face. Because it can foretell annihilation of our human race. This agonizingly painful process is gathering...
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Our Essential Pollinators
This year we stopped mowing our lawn, to re-wild our surroundings and welcome our essential pollinators. We have been reminded of their presence and their absence throughout the summer of...
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Mandatory Masks in Nova Scotia July 31, 2020
As of this Friday, July 31, 2020, it will be mandatory in Nova Scotia to wear a non-medical mask in indoor public spaces. To remind us all to wear our...
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Creating a Bee and Butterfly Garden
Travels with a Low-Carbon Couple In the summer of 2019, John and I stopped mowing the field around our solar tracker, to allow the whole space to develop into a...
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Capering About on our E-Bikes
After our three-day-and-night train ride to Saskatoon and my presentation to my surgical colleagues, we had time to explore this lovely city before our return home to Halifax. Saskatchewan, home...
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Climate Tour 2019 with Buffy Sainte-Marie, David Suzuki, and Stephen Lewis
Convocation Hall on the University of Toronto campus was the first stop of the Climate Tour with David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis, and the only one with Buffy Sainte-Marie. How...
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Travels with a Low-Carbon Couple
HARP publishers and editors Dorothy Lander and John Graham-Pole believe that the climate emergency is the most urgent issue for population health and health equity. As part of HARP’s mission...