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No Words

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 [...]

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Beware the Pseudo-Environmentalists!

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 [...]

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Education for the Real World.

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 [...]

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Go with the Flow

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.

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Field of Dreams

First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, Jan. 2004. I am floating on the surface of a warm tropical sea. The burning sun beating down on the skin of my back and shoulders, my face submerged in the tepid rolling waves, mask and snorkel on.

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