Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
How do you ask a community to be the last to sacrifice their land to support the dying fossil fuel industry? by Shelley Tanenbaum. In September I had the privilege of spending about a week on the frontline at Red Lake Treaty Camp, a spiritual and ceremonial camp in...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
by Joseph Cotham. The United States and Canada have committed to the conservation of 30% of the land and waters of the United States by 2030. The U.S.’ 30×30 initiative has evolved into the America the Beautiful campaign, a national call to action that is...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
by Lyn Adamson. I’m the co-chair of Canada’s ClimateFast, a volunteer-based non-profit dedicated to building strong, informed public pressure to take urgent, substantial and just action on climate change. Our group fasted on the first full day of COP26, November 1,...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
BOOK REVIEW by Tom Small. Suzanne Simard, in her first book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, has a story to tell. She tells it very well, with a keen sense of the dramatic. And she plays many roles. Foremost, she’s the mystery-story...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Activism, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
by Hayley Connors-Keith. Content warning: police violence and sexual abuse On August 21, my partner and I went to the Fairy Creek Watershed on Vancouver Island in British Columbia to support the land defenders on the frontlines and protect the last 2% of old-growth...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Spirituality, Volume 34
by Marcelle Martin. When I was in my mid-twenties, my graduate school program was not meeting my great longing to understand the nature of reality. I began to seek inwardly. Yearning to know what life was about, I paid attention to my inner experience in a new way. I...
