Reading Time: 3 minutes Think of Venice as a metaphor for humanity’s tepid response to the swelling climate crisis
Author: Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson’s career combined his academic training in Law and Anthropology at UBC and Oxford University, in frontier regulatory compliance work at Petro-Canada and PolarGas, and the leadership of three national NGOs: The Arctic Institute of North America, The Glenbow Alberta Institute, and The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. In addition, he has chaired the national boards of Friends of the Earth, The David Suzuki Foundation, and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. In 2004 he became a Member of the Order of Canada.
Approaching the end of fall on the Sunshine Coast
Reading Time: 4 minutes The days are increasingly short and grey, but nature is on full display everywhere we look
Keeping young, ambitious and talented people in Alberta
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s already a strong engineering, finance and transportation capability in the province. We need to build on that in the new economy
Split firewood and enduring friendships
Reading Time: 4 minutes A weekend rigorously scheduled, egalitarian, task-focused and bathed in a bonding humour
The seduction of art and the art of sales seduction
Reading Time: 4 minutes Grace, beauty, art and commerce at the Vetreria Artistica glass factory on Italy’s Murano island
Taking a broader, ecological view of Venice
Reading Time: 4 minutes How many of us think of the Venetian lagoon and its imperilled circumstances when we imagine a trip to Piazza San Marco?
The Algarve: Portugal’s magnificent beach of a south coast
Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine golden sand, 25C with a blue sky in May, and the cleanest blue-green ocean you’ve ever seen. Add boardwalks stretching for kilometres and fabulous food
Travels and hikes in Italy’s mini Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The shared borders with France and Switzerland have clearly contributed to a multilingual society in this very northern and beautiful corner of Italy
Travelling with Greta Thunberg in mind
Reading Time: 4 minutes Living with your environmental choices and the ones others make for you while on the road
Big tech created a fractious, annoyed, malfunctioning world
Reading Time: 3 minutes Where’s the evidence that the values this new world order has created produce happiness, fulfilment and the well-lived life?