Our Relationship to Place
In this age of materialism and reductionism, it isn’t just the land that has been broken but our relationship with it … Without a true connection to place, we cannot fully relate to Nature.
Category: climate change
On Ora et Labora: The FANE Field School and the Benedictine Tradition
FANE works with the benedictine tradition of ora et labora to teach FFS Students contemplative environmentalism.
Climate Change can’t be denied and we need to do something about it!
With climate change denialism on the rise at exactly the moment international climate actionshould be, I want to salute the present leader of the Progressive Conservative Party ofNewfoundland and Labrador, Tony Wakeham, for distancing his party from former leader ChesCrosbie’s denialist remarks last week in Ottawa. In the interest of […]
An important paper on climate change, floods and flood resiliency, by FANE Environmental Policy Advisor, Thea Koper.
Managing Canada’s Floods: Strengthening Canada’s adaptation to climate change by increasing flood resiliency – A Canadian Priorities Agenda – by Thea Koper. This policy agenda was designed by Thea Koper for the MUNK School’s Master of Public Policy Program. The paper justifies three distinct policy options that will increase Canada’s resiliency […]
An update from Ian Goudie on Hydro, ‘Green Energy’ and COP26
Three hundred and forty organizations representing 78 countries petitioned the Parties to the UNFCCC Conference (COP-26) on Climate Change in Glasgow, Scotland to finally recognize that hydroelectric power generated by mega-projects is not “green” energy. Yet the petition had no effect, at least this time, aside from bland commitments to […]
Climate Change Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador
FANE co-director’s Sean McGrath and Kyla Bruff served on a committee struck on the 25th of September 2019, announced in a press release from the Leader of the Official Opposition Party for Newfoundland and Labrador, Mr. Ches Crosbie. The task entrusted to it was to advise the PC Leader on […]
New Blue Paper on Ocean Sustainability
An important Blue Paper produced by the The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel) has recently been released. As a reminder, FANE spearheaded the publication of an oceans policy paper, Stewarding the North Atlantic, available here.
Discussion on CIUT
FANE Co-Directors Sean McGrath and Kyla Bruff in conversation with Thea Koper of Beyond the Headlines, on University of Toronto’s CIUT. The discussion ranges from the history of FANE, to climate change, carbon tax, and the NL election. Broadcast at 11am EST (12:30 NL time), Monday Feb. 8.
Seafaring the North Atlantic
Seafaring the North Atlantic is a musical and cinematic prelude to the Future of Oceans Symposium FEATURING a screening of shorts on the Atlantic from the archives of the NFB, followed by Canada’s premier violin and piano ensemble Duo Concertante, performing “The ocean is full of its own collapse” by […]
War on Nature
War On Nature Ian Goudie The great American sage and poet, Gary Snyder, likened what is happening now to nature worldwide – the nonhuman realm of watersheds and ecosystems, to a war against Nature. At its roots, the western culture is driven by capitalism which by definition is about maximizing […]