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“Cropland, aggregate, rail, water, wind. It’s hard to imagine a list more defining of the preoccupations of our times. But what happens when all those elements converge in one community, courtesy of one developer? Is it a bright vision of a sustainable future, or crass “rural blockbusting” set to devastate farmland and decimate a community? [...]
A former colleague of mine runs a cool course at Acadia University in which he trains outdoor guides by taking them into the woods and running live search and rescue scenarios with SAR technicians, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft from the Canadian military. I wrote a short article about it here in SARSCENE magazine.
I never imagined that I would become a canine journalist, but I just finished writing an article about “how to run with your dog” for the May issue of Canadian Running magazine and that has led to two related assignments for Dogs in Canada.
Echoes of Marley & Me? I even have a baby on the [...]
Clay Schoenfeld
“The roots of EC include nature writing, outdoor recreation and travel writing, science writing, public affairs reporting, and persuasion. The common denominators of the various forms of EC include a hard core of ecological content, a recognition of worldwide problems of crisis proportions, a value system, and a concern for private and public action.”—source
Mark [...]
Updating my old website was on my to-do list for about two years. It was great that my website was coming up number 1 when you Googled my name, but not so great that the first site anyone went to was two years out of date.
I decided it would be easier to keep the site [...]
