The World of Guy Dauncey
Policy Options and Reflections on the Future of 950 Phoenix Way by Guy Dauncey So, what happens now? A huge majority of people – 97% of participants – have said a clear and commanding “NO” to heavy industry anywhere near the Cable Bay Trail. The challenge in crafting a revised zoning bylaw is not simply … Continue reading What’s Next for Cable Bay? →
Oh autumn, when the geese head south and sea lions play amid the kelp, when sunsets paint their grey-red feast against the ocean’s deepening. Season of mists and mellow mirth when leaves fall lazily to earth, finding rest in soil that’s long been home since earth was love and love was loam. Twenty long thousand … Continue reading The Autumn Wedding of Pumpkin and Squash →
In BC’s October election, as a member of the Green Party, I am endorsing the NDP candidate for Ladysmith-Oceanside, Stephanie Higginson, hoping she will win. This needs some explaining! I met Stephanie when she came to my home to pick my brain about local environmental concerns, and I found her to be smart, alert, and committed. I … Continue reading Here’s Why, as a Green, I am Endorsing Stephanie…
There is a craziness afoot in British Columbia, and I’m not referring to the legions of homeless people who are camped out on our streets. I’m referring to the $3 billion of public money that is about to be spent on a transmission line to carry electricity from the Site C Dam to Prince Rupert. Are the … Continue reading Clean LNG – A Conjuror’s Climate Trick →
Do you bank with Community Coastal Credit Union? If you do, congratulate yourself. A credit union is a financial cooperative that is – or could be, if you vote – controlled by its members, for your benefit and the benefit of the wider community. As a shareholder, you have the right to vote for CCCU’s … Continue reading Calling all CCCU Members! →
In early days I found you bright,We had good fun, and quick delight,But now alas my love has curdled,You have gone sour, my gentle wordle.So farewell, we’ve had our kicks,Wordle 1,078 3/6With Blossom I have new love found,and skills that grow with every round.Twelve times each day I seek your pleasure,Squandering my guilty leisure.An S? … Continue reading The Ballad of Blossom and Wordle →
Dear Canadian climate journalists, Without you, who work with such persistence in the trenches of the climate crisis, how would Canadians know that we face such danger? How would we know that most of the solutions we need already exist, or that progress is being blocked by those who profit from continued climate pollution, and … Continue reading Canada is Blessed with Great Climate Journalists →
Calvin Sandborn’s Speech on Retiring from the University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre Delivered to 160 former law students, clients, and First Nations leaders, June 15, 2023 This summer I leave the Environmental Law Centre, but our work is far from finished. The question is unavoidable: Can we turn this around? Realistically speaking, it looks … Continue reading “There can be no greater…
Palgrave MacMillan, August 2026 Chapter 1: The Great Mistake Our world needs more kindness. People need more kindness. Nature needs more kindness. But we need it deep within our economies, where so many of our troubles begin. We have been told a thousand times that the free-market economy is the best possible kind of economy, … Continue reading The Economics of Kindness →
This is an extract from Chapter 12 of my forthcoming book The Economics of Kindness: How to End the Economics of Selfishness and Build an Economy that Works for All, for which I am seeking a publisher. So much has been written about the urgency of the looming climate disaster that I’ll skip straight to … Continue reading How Can We Stop The Looming Climate Disaster? →