Amazing news on super-short notice!
In this time of unstable economies and growing climate impacts, I’m facilitating a workshop this coming weekend called “Resilient People: Building strength in a time of economic and climate change.”
“Resilient People: Building strength in a time of economic and climate change” is a workshop for our time. Facilitated by Resilient People co-founder [...]

I was interviewed on OneClimate TV, part of the One Climate Network, during the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009.
Anuradha Vittachi, the show’s accomplished presenter and new media pioneer, was part of a broad-based civil society partnership that took on the superhuman task of live-streaming interviews around the clock from within the Bella Centre, helping [...]

Happy 2010.
I find it hard to believe that the last time I posted to the Realistic Sanctuary blog was May 2009.
Here’s why. I started writing exclusively on HuffPost between June and December 2009 as well as traveling to conferences like the Tallberg Forum and the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen, pursuing journalism as a way [...]

To viewers of "Chai Time" on Omni TV who might have followed the link on the show to reach my blog, I thought I'd (a.) link to the article the host Tarannum referred to and (b.) say a little bit more about my background.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was awarded a scholarship [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, the Haida artist who illustrated the book Flight of the Hummingbird using his own Haida manga style.
As noted in that post, the hummingbird of the story tirelessly drops beads of water onto a great forest fire, presumably to little, if any, material effect. As the [...]

On Wednesday night, I attended a talk at Simon Fraser University by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, a mirthful Indigenous artist of the Haida people of British Columbia’s North Coast.
Once an artist-activist whose prime focus was to help to protect his ancestral lands from over-exploitation, Yahgulanaas describes himself now as a "Haida Manga" artist. His work addresses [...]

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Adrian Cerezo, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, originally uploaded by Sanjay Khanna.
 
Today was the first day of "Sustaining Biological and Cultural Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: [...]