We are witnessing a huge global rallying cry to act swiftly and powerfully to arrest the climate crisis, which is set to destroy both us humans and many other species, and to lay waste to our whole ecology. Our own community is beginning to wake up and take action through building coalitions and planning local […]
Unlock your Cuddle Hormone in 2022 Oxytocin is our brain’s chemical messenger that has come to be known as the cuddle hormone. Oxytocin first entered our consciousness while we were compiling a list of simple recommendations to lighten our carbon footprint for our HARP blog loosely titled Go Lightly on Our Earth. (https://tryhealingarts.ca/go-lightly-on-our-earth/) Specifically, we […]
Travels with a Low-Carbon Couple In the summer of 2019, John and I stopped mowing the field around our solar tracker, to allow the whole space to develop into a bee and butterfly garden. More dandelions than grass, anyway, so it did not qualify as lawn by most standards. In no time, dandelions (taraxacum officinale), […]
After our three-day-and-night train ride to Saskatoon and my presentation to my surgical colleagues, we had time to explore this lovely city before our return home to Halifax. Saskatchewan, home to Canadian Medicare maven Tommy Douglas, boasts more sunshine than any other province, and has the good sense not to move its clocks back and […]
HARP publishers and editors Dorothy Lander and John Graham-Pole believe that the climate emergency is the most urgent issue for population health and health equity. As part of HARP’s mission to use the arts to raise awareness of public health issues for a popular readership, we are creating this blog, Travels with a Low-Carbon Couple. […]
