AGUACENE

It’s Friday night and the Bramble family have invited their neighbours, the Whites, for dinner. Their guests marvel at the scrumptious display of raw fish. Mr. White is especially taken with the salmon tartare, his favourite, and comments:

The point of no return, the tipping point, the crossing of the threshold, the “whoops” is that what we did last summer (insert sound of crying baby here)?

What’s a poor penguin to do?

Near freezing temperatures, complete darkness, and the pressure of 4 SUVs on your big toe!

If this sounds like beginner salsa with an elephant in Prague in November, you’d be on to something in a random kind of way.

When it comes to our fresh waterways and our oceans, clean means abundant naturally occurring micro-nutrients flowing into the tummies of wriggly slippery fish and water mammals.

But what about for us humans?

“Imagine a giant river, which connects all Canadians and helps control our climate, had something to say” — Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation

The F-word is Gaia’s dirty little secret which she spits out at us from time to time when she feels particularly incensed and potty-mouthed.

From now on Aguacene ejects the F-word from all communications and thought.

You may have seen a few articles floating around the internet lately on increased military interest in the Arctic. The scent of freshly pressed bills clog the minds of greedy corporations and fossil fuel hungry national leaders with a convoy of flying piggies with slits on their backs.

Is this the Arctic storm of the future?

Oh some think it’s dirty

Oh some think it’s fun

But life stops without it

So let’s get it done.

“I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! Expeditions! The web! More! — To ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet” — Sylvia Earle, 2009, TED Prize Winner 2009

Ice can feel?

Now hang a sec, you snort. That is just insane. How can a block of ice have feelings?

But what if she did?