Photos from my journey to Lake Huron
A small photo album of wildlife and the lakeshore from my trip to Lake Huron in July 2023.
environment
Reading Notes on Blowout by Rachel Maddow
I borrowed a copy of Rachel Maddow's 2019 book, Blowout, over the winter holidays and got through it in a fortnight. Here are a few of my thoughts on this exposé of a few major actors in the oil and gas industry:
Reading Notes on Fourteen Wolves: A Rewilding Story
A graphic novel caught my eye recently, the French translation of Fourteen Wolves: A Rewilding Story by Catherine Barr and Jenni Desmond.
Why I'm Quitting Fast Fashion
The rundown of my personal commitment to stop relying on fast fashion.
A weekend at Ker Izela
We hop into the car late on Friday evening. A dog, five humans, lots of bags. Another human and two dogs will be joining us the next day up north. We drive through a night punctuated by blurred yellow lights as we get further north, the radio set to the rock station I listened to in high school.
Listening to Barack Obama on June 6 2017 at the Chambre de commerce de Montréal métropolitain
I sometimes tweet when interesting things happen. Today, I was given the
opportunity to hear American President Barack Obama speak for the first time in
Montréal. It was my first time hearing him
Waiting at the high water mark
On a school trip when I am ten years old, I find myself on the littoral—where
earth and water meet—of the river in Tadoussac, listening to a teacher asking
the gathered
The gentleman farmer, labour and land: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley
In my first post about Stardew Valley, I wrote about the romanticization of agriculture and rural life, dumpster diving, as well as what kind of gameplay the game encourages in its players. In this post I'll expand on some of that, as well as explore the game's treatment of labour and the land.
Dumpster diving and pickling pumpkins: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley
My first post on the ecocritical possibilities in the video game Stardew Valley.
Climate change and Jay Peak | Easter 2016
When you look out, over the trees covered in frost, you can almost forget that
it's the end of March, that the viable ski season is almost over. I can almost
forget that