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I have arachnophobia (fear of spiders). I’ve been working on it because I know it doesn’t make sense, and I would like to travel to some locations with more significant spiders without being terrified all the time that I will run into a spider. Therefore, I’m always intrigued by discussions of ways to help people … Continue reading
Several years ago, I was out for a run and I found someone pushing their bike with a flat tire. I didn’t have any equipment with me, but I was close to home and offered to help them fix their tire. I still remember this, and it makes me smile. In a world that feels … Continue reading
“But other people don’t think this way.” This is a comment I hear a lot from students. They want to change the world. They want social equity and cultural vitality. They want to earn enough to be comfortable but don’t want to feel the pull of every trend they see online. They want a healthy … Continue reading
When I teach sustainability, I include culture and social justice. Therefore, I was interested to read a recent article by Demiralay, Kilincarslin, and Li (2025) on how LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion relates to corporate environmental performance. They looked at 893 US firms between 2010 and 2023. They considered the general political environment, specifically looking at whether … Continue reading
I woke up this morning to an air quality warning with levels at 10+ on the air quality health index. Sadly, with climate change, these warnings are becoming more frequent during the summer months where I live. You can’t plan for specific ones, but you do have to plan that they will happen. As an … Continue reading
With misinformation running rampant, it becomes ever more important for people to identify strategies to address it. The standard response is to want to correct the misinformation. However, as we’ve seen, this often doesn’t have the impact we want. A more recent recommendation is to bypass the misinformation. When you bypass misinformation you “introduce different, … Continue reading
I get comments about safety all the time when I bike commute: “I wouldn’t risk it, it’s so dangerous.” The thing is that I’m healthier when I’m biking in, so how do the health benefits of the biking balance with the higher risk of traffic accidents? Friel and colleagues (2024) looked at long term health … Continue reading
I’ve been trying to change my language away from car-centric metaphors for a while. I try not to say, “Take the road less travelled,” for example, and switch it to “path.” When I talk about putting an idea aside to think about or discuss later I’ve started saying, “we’ll put that in the bike rack … Continue reading
I’m a paddler. I paddle multiple different sports — canoeing, kayaking, and dragon boating. I’m competitive in dragon boating but recreational in the other two. From my own experience, recreational paddlers seem to think more about nature and environmental impact. Even for myself, I know that I justify a higher environmental impact in my dragon … Continue reading
I am currently taking a course through Coursera from Western University in Canada. The course is Connecting for Climate Change. It uses a two-eyed seeing approach to view climate change through Western and Indigenous science lenses. I think if you are new to this idea and want to learn more about both climate change and … Continue reading
Connecting with Science 