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: ecology
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.
The boreal zone in Canada
What effects does clear-cutting
have on the human and the natural environment? What are the
consequences for the northern American Caribou? Empirical
studies. Participation and fieldwork in a FANE (For a New Earth)
School of Practical Ecology, Newfoundland
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 […]
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 […]
Soil Removal at Muskrat
For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 17, 2018 For a New Earth announces its endorsement of soil removal at Muskrat Falls ST. JOHN’S –Local ecological NPO For A New Earth (FANE) hereby announces its public endorsement of the recommendations recently issued by the Independent Expert Advisory Committee (IEAC) for the Muskrat […]
No to Sea Farming Salmon
by Ian Goudie Is this government seriously considering sinking $45 million of taxpayers’ money into a form of aquaculture that is passé? Are we about to put another nail into our economic coffin? What is it about Newfoundland that seems we will sell our soul for a few jobs? It […]
On The Failure of Environmental Assessment
by Dr. Ian Goudie David Vardy has raised some major concerns aimed at the failure of democracy to ensure that the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Project (LCHP) minimized and mitigated negative environmental impacts. In this article, I elaborate on this theme to emphasize that science is also failing us. Reflecting back […]
Clear Cutting
FANE Position on Clear-cutting – by Ian Goudie The matter of clear-cutting our forests is an ongoing debate that has advanced with the model of industrial forestry. Industrial forest managers (in NL they are classified as ecosystem managers!!) apply what can be likened to a mode of agriculture. The model […]