Links from the past week

A bunch of links to things I read and found interesting last week… Grab a cup of your favourite beverage.

Climate crisis is here and we may or may not be at the point of no return (Reuters).

It is rare to see a well written profile in Canadian media. We are really terrible at profile writing (unlike our neighbours to the south) so treasure this excellent profile of Canada’s Governor General, Her Excellency Mary Simon, in the Walrus. I am excited to see what Julian Brave NoiseCat writes next.

I came across this older piece on why we walk by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker while reading Yi-Fu Tuan’s Topophilia - an old book on the relationship between humans and space. Given that’s been almost 50 years since that book was written - it holds up reasonably well. Remarkably, you can access it here.

The Guardian published a profile of Kate Raworth, an economist and the author of Doughnut Economics. I am a big fan of community conversations that dream up alternatives to the economic, social and climate mess we live in now. As John Berger once wrote: “The world is not intolerable until the possibility of transforming it exists but is denied.” So get dreaming folks. We are running out of time. And here is a story from Denmark on an obvious way to structure your energy generation, especially in a place like Newfoundland.

I am currently reading Aperture Conversations, an anthology of interviews with photographers and people connected in some way to photography. I am not sure I would recommend it for the same reason that it is hard to recommend most academic writing - life is too short to wade through a whole lot of egomania for an occasional interesting nugget. But there definitely are nuggets. The interview with Bruce Davidson made me revisit some of his work and I came across this interview in The New Yorker some of you may find interesting.

That’s all folks!