🔥 Sept 9 | 6:30pm ET: Join Seniors for Climate & author John Vaillant (Fire Weather) for a talk + Q&A on wildfires, fossil fuels & climate chaos. 700 signed up—help us hit 1,000!🌎 👉 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @johnvaillant.bsky.social #DrawTheLine #LaterIsTooLate #Seniorsforclimate

Kristina Gardner of The Runner wrote an article on my latest venture into music video creation for Peter Gabriel. runnermag.ca/2025/08/kpu-... #petergabriel #musicvideo #io #music #video #i/o

First Nation in B.C. says 41 more graves found by penetrating radar at school site #BritishColumbia 😓 halifax.citynews.ca/2025/08/15/c...

Yep, I made a music video for Peter Gabriel.

My profile on Peter Gabriel's 50:50 website: www.5050.dev/creators/lee... @itspetergabriel.bsky.social (photo by Justine Marie Photography) #petergabriel #musicvideo #io

A new music video released by @itspetergabriel.bsky.social was created by @kwantlenu.bsky.social instructor Dr. Lee Beavington. “I’m still processing this. I've been mega fan since I was nine years old and have a shelf dedicated to his albums,” he says. Read more: www.kpu.ca/news/2025/07...

Peter Gabriel (@itspetergabriel.bsky.social) just released my music video for his song i/o. As an ecologist and nature photographer that researches and teaches about the interconnection of all life, this song was a perfect fit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Ic... #petergabriel #musicvideo #i/o

I made a music video for @itspetergabriel.bsky.social. He will release it tomorrow, July 17. Here’s a screenshot of the creative process from Final Cut Pro.

When you're a mega fan of Rivers, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @stanleydonwood.bsky.social, and @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social.

I wrote a tribute for Peter Gabriel's OVO album, for the occasion of its 25th anniversary. www.wildethic.com/ovo #petergabriel #ovo #millenniumdome

Stoked to have submitted our book draft to the publisher for Poetry as Environmental Geography. Thanks to co-editor Adam Vincent for the invite. He started this Poetic Inquiry Atlas series, which began with Vol 1, A Survey of Rigorous Poetics (linked here). vernonpress.com/book/2115 #poeticinquiry

This Climate+ Challenge blog post is inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass. This post outlines ways to incorporate Braiding Sweetgrass into five disciplines, including an activity for each. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social wordpress.kpu.ca/climateplusc...

Now online! Indigenous Pedagogies, today at noon. Join Shannon Leddy, author of Teaching Where you Are, for a talk on Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies. Open to all. Message me for link. #Indigenous #decolonize #education #university #teaching @kwantlenu.bsky.social

Article by The Runner, written by Mariia Potiatynyk, on Wild Spaces and our two upcoming walk and talks. The amazing artwork was made by Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer for Wild Spaces. runnermag.ca/2025/05/kpu-... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social #wildspaces #nature #education #placebased

I'm leading an online writing workshop next Tuesday. Open to everyone. Let's get creative together! This workshop is inspired by Felicia Rose Chavez' The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom Register here: www.kpu.ca/learningcent... @kwantlenu.bsky.social

Salish Sea Assembly, water defender event. Open to everyone! This great event is next Tuesday, May 27, at the Totest Aleng Indigenous Learning House in South Surrey: www.surrey.ca/arts-culture...

Some good news. Thanks to all my mentors and teachers for making me the educator I am today. Teaching is all about community. www.kpu.ca/news/2025/05... @kwantlenu.bsky.social

Land-based learning this Thu! Join us for a walk & talk with Sonya Ballantyne, KPU's Indigenous Filmmaker/Writer in Residence. Award-winning filmmaker, founder of Code Breaker Films & named a Barbie Role Model. Register: form.jotform.com/251115316175... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social

My new paper on Wild Pedagogies asks "How can nature be a co-teacher?" And ponders more-than-human methodologies, positionality of the natural world, embedded anthropocentrism and research implications for the natural world. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/aee....

Wild Spaces summer speaker series just announced! Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/251115316175... Open to the KPU community. If you are external to KPU and would like to join us please send me a note. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social

Climate change matters to us all. I think there's a growing understanding among women that women's, bipoc, and lgbtq+ rights mean climate stability. Unfortunately, we've fought angrily for these rights, instead of lifting straight white men alongside us. We left them blinded by their disillusion.

There is some good news in the world: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Summer course: Corporate Accountability and Historical Justice ⁨Study mechanisms developed to hold corporations accountable for their actions, particularly human rights violations and environmental degradation. Taught by Fabricio Telo. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social

Poilievre vows to grant oil and gas industry’s entire wishlist: thenarwhal.ca/oil-gas-wish...

Recently finished Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. A profound book utterly relevant to the world today. Stunningly written and researched. Rivers run through everything, and we need to honour and protect them. I will read this again and bring this book into my teaching and research.

New Wild Spaces blog post: Gardening As a Way to Practice Environmental Wellness. Written by arts practicum student Iuliia Astashova. @kwantlenu.bsky.social "Research has shown that our mental health is closely linked to the environment we live in." wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces/2...

New course: Green Criminology. I wish this course existed when I was a student! Looking for an interesting class to take this summer? Care about nature, environmental justice, and getting outside of the classroom?

Our final session of the Indigenous Speaker Series is with the incredibly knowledgeable Robert Jago. The first three events filled up so sign up fast! Wed, Mar. 26, 1pm, outdoors at KPU Surrey Open to students, staff and faculty Details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196...

Watch my PechaKucha (20 slides, 20 sec per slide) presentation on "Sustainability and the 3 R's: Respect, Relevance & Reciprocity" Note: you may have to click "Load All Content" @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social app.pebblepad.ca/spa/#/public...

Decolonizing Educational Practices. Meaningful territorial acknowledgements, cultivating cultural safety, authentic Indigenous resources, relational and place-based teaching, and more. I created this website in collaboration with many others. @kwantlenu.bsky.social wordpress.kpu.ca/decolonization

New book: Wilding Ecologies, Walking-with Glacier. Full online access. My piece "Grandmother Glacier" was inspired by my Grandma Norma. She passed shortly before I wrote this. On p. 67, 74 & 82. Thanks to editors K. Malone, S. Blenkinsop, B. Jickling, & M. Morse. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Indigenous Speaker Series starts tomorrow! Open to the KPU community. Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196...

Recording of Robin Wall Kimmerer's talk last night, hosted by Dr. Jennifer Grenz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt4z...

UVic has a Bachelor of Education in Indigenous Language Revitalization. Details here: www.uvic.ca/education/in...

An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer hosted by Dr. Jennifer Grenz. This Friday! Link to register: westvanlibrary.ca/event/an-eve...

Find Your Writing Voice workshop next Wednesday. www.kpu.ca/learningcent...

This is Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde. Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde gives great sermons. Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde knows how to fight the oligarchy. Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde is smart. Be like Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde.

Great interview here of Bishop Budde by the wonderful @erinburnett.bsky.social 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=2BMZ...

It's not enough, but it's something.

Once again our cats remind me of the best things in life.

Song of the moment: Washing of the Water by Peter Gabriel River, river, carry me on Living river, carry me on River, river, carry me on To the place where I come from youtu.be/pvj37ZDhznA?...

In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5

The Eco Jurisprudence monitor is a fascinating & hopeful resource: an interactive database of Earth-centred legal initiatives (eg river-rights) as their number & consequences grow & grow. Cartography as imagining otherwise; a glimpse of a geography of hope. Here: ecojurisprudence.org/dashboard/?m...

We need to hear the good news too. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

New Zealand. Hobbits, poets, Fernery, and Thom Yorke. #poeticinquiry #Hobbiton #fernery #thomyorke

Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State. “Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

Hosted two Wild Spaces events in Nov. Fungi Forest Walk (with Emily Betz) and A River Walk in a Salmon Forest (with Erika Eliason & Cougar Creek Streamkeepers). Co-hosted by the Office of Sustainability. Great discoveries, conversations, and connections. Wild Spaces: wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces