Wild Being from the Heart of Nature
Posted in Articles on Aug 30th, 2010
Anything that challenges dominant approaches to behaviour change is refreshing. But I’m not sure if it’s quite as simple and formulated as Joe Brewer suggests. However, I strongly agree with his points in general, as they fit perfectly with our findings from the WWF Natural Change Project… and with over ten years of professional practice [...]
First published by Proboscus as part of there Topographies and Tales project, 2006. ‘On Banks Island, in the Canadian Arctic, environmental shifts are happening so fast that the Inuvialut inhabitants do not have the words to describe what they now see around them.’1 Words become inadequate at the boundary of new experience. So often they [...]
Posted in Articles on Apr 1st, 2004
First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, Nov. 2003 One of the first things I do when I run an eco-education course is introduce the “Environmental Spectrum”. One end of the spectrum is ‘grey’, the other ‘deep green’. Points in between get progressively less grey, and increasingly greener. The object of the spectrum is to [...]
Posted in Articles on Mar 1st, 2004
It is time for you to learn how to drive a car. The driving instructor takes you into a room full of tables and chairs, the walls covered in shelves lined with books, at one end of the room is a black-board. The instructor takes a book off one of the shelves and hands it [...]
Posted in Articles on Feb 1st, 2004
I am poised leaning backwards out over a 60-foot drop into a roaring abyss. My harness tightens around me, the rope taught between my abseil device and the deeply rooted tree around which it has been wrapped. I take a few more steps backwards, fighting through dense undergrowth, and I am free.