by potential | Sep 15, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I just came back to Argentina, where I live, after a month and a half trip to Quebec, where I’m from. Every time I have to opportunity to go back home, enjoy friends and family, speak my language and feel my culture, all of this fills me with renew energy. Thus, on a...
by potential | Sep 15, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Greenpeace and I would like to tip its hat to the founders who began an environmental movement forty years ago in their Vancouver, Kitsilano living room. Greenpeace Turns 40 On September 15th, 1971 Greenpeace set sail on its first...
by potential | Sep 13, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Harvest is in full swing. To kick it off Jim and I attended our CSA’s (Community Shared Agriculture) annual harvest party. We’ve been CSA members of Kawartha Ecological Growers for three years now and this is the second time we’ve made it out to the farm(s) for their...
by potential | Sep 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
As it turns out, the recipe for Community is very simple; Singing in public, beer, and a little dash of wild animal. Surprisingly, I am not talking about drunken nights of karaoke (exclusively). I recently spent 6 weeks studying in Copenhagen, Denmark and followed...
by potential | Aug 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I’ve never tipped my hat to another man walking down the street. It’s not that they didn’t deserve the salutation, but I would have looked like a damn dufus had I done it. Or perhaps it’s just not quite with the times (like the word dufus). With my friends, I hug...
