By Learning Lead – Melissa Dick As a Learning Lead with Waterlution, Melissa is learning about wild soundscapes by capturing audio recordings and listening. In framing my thinking around my intention to learn about wild soundscapes by capturing audio recordings and listening as a Learning Lead for the Cautious Optimist project with Waterlution, I came…
by Learning Lead – Rachel Krueger Welcome It’s dinner time and you’re hungry. You survey the fridge: the food situation is worse than you thought. On the shelf sits a shrivelled zucchini, a forlorn, browning half of an avocado, and some suspiciously old salsa. If you throw out this food, you’ll need to make a…
by Learning Lead – Amy Darrell It began with an ice storm. The power was out everywhere. At first, I was secretly pleased. A short power outage is kind of fun, like camping in your own house. It’s a great excuse to let go of your lofty to-do list, pull out some candles and hunker…
by Learning Lead – Hannah Brown Hello! My name is Hannah Brown and I am an Edmonton-based writer and nature lover holding a BSc degree. I love bird watching and playing guitar, violin, or keyboard, depending on my mood and who I’m playing with. My values are rooted in environmentalism, social justice, and building community.…
by Learning Lead – Melinda Munding At the end of May my family welcomed a large number of house guests into our small home. We were able to host them all in because they move around slowly and noiselessly. Despite living with us for the last month, our grocery bills have not increased as they…
by Learning Lead & Indigenous Relations Coordinator Stephanie Pheasant-Recollet For the Cautious Optimist blog, I chose Fish Skin Leather tanning. Noticing a resurgence of traditional practices from my fellow Indigenous people across Turtle Island, I wanted to share that spiritual and emotional connection to traditional methods our ancestors may have used. The challenge imposed here being:…
by Learning Leads – Caden Hebb & Lily Barraclough Imagine a lush and prosperous vegetable garden, with peas crawling up lattice, zucchini plant leaves as big as your head, and bush beans everywhere. How can you get a garden like this, and become a person with a zucchini problem? In Caden’s family, there is an…
by Learning Lead Amy Sinclair Ever wonder how people used to make clothes? Some knitted, crocheted, wove or sewed… But all these practices require yarn and they couldn’t just go to the store to buy it, so how did they make it? I’ve often found myself wondering about this over the last few years. I…
by Learning Lead – Segen Mehreteab So, Spoons. What are these magical rounded objects we use to funnel foods into our mouth? We move through a Drive-Thru, maybe we pick up an Oreo McFlurry with peanuts (the machine wasn’t broken this time!) and included in it is a bright white plastic spoon-like contraption. The convenience…
by Learning Lead Joanne Cerdan The price of groceries for Torontonians has increased by 17% from last year. Food categories with the most significant cost increase include dark green vegetables (17.3%) and other vegetables and fruit (15.2%). The average person in Toronto will spend about $302.35 on groceries per month (City of Toronto, 2021). One…