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Two minutes of sunlight could power the entire human civilization for over a week. One and a half hour of sunlight could power civilization for the whole year. So why are we looking into other energy sources that do so much more damage to our society and ecosystem? #climatediary (Human […]

For #texturetuesday. A shell beach in Brasilito, Costa Rica

Staying at a Fairmont Hotel this week. Downloaded my key app today. My room key now sends me advertising. Fuck. Off. You have one job.

Reflecting on fields, containers, Harrison Owen, Patricia Shaw and asking "What am I doing?"

The oil and gas shills are the only people in Canada who breathlessly swoon when Canadian companies are bought by international investors so profits can be moved out of Canada. They never see the irony. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-shell-arc-resources-montney-alberta-9.7179152

Spinach harvest #silentsunday

#footpathfriday The Sentier Littoral at Cap Ferrat, France. Our last long walk of the month. 16 k round trip from Villefranche.

This is a BRILLIANT and clear articulation of where we are with Indigenous rights and title in BC right now. The current BC politicians driving this massive clusterfuck gets it so wrong and is creating all the fear and uncertainty that they are wringing their hands over but they will never […]

What’s the first thing YOU do after spending a month in France and waking up at 4am with jet lag? #bread

How cheap money concentrates wealth https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/cheap-money-concentrates-wealth/

My web browser now when I surf the internet: “Hey can we massively violate your privacy before you few this article on climate change.” Me: No. “Not even a little bit?” No. “Here choose a few TINY way we can do it…”

Continuing some deeper reflections on the Art of Hosting and anthro-complexity by situating my practice. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/four-streams-that-have-taken-me-to-the-margins-of-every-community-of-practice-to-which-i-belong/

Scott Moe predictably just defends Danielle Smith even though something like two thirds of Albertans want her gone. Scott, buddy, she’s not going to…

Spurs by the skins of their teeth https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/spurs-by-the-skins-of-their-teeth/

I’m very sad that Sonny Rollins has died. What a musician. What a person.

Why is it that every time a provincial political party ads “United” to its name, it soon splinters into a bunch of narcissistic factions? #bcpoli #abpoli #rhetoricalquestion

#silentsunday #coys #iykyk

Walking across Provence with the mistral in my face and Mistral in my pocket. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/reading-mistral-in-provence/

It is no surprise to me that Stephen Harper, the prince of darkness himself, chairs the advisory committee for the company that wants to lace our stratosphere with particles to dim sunlight. Ghouls […]

This is Keystone, a cat which has many humans and homes in Deep Bay on Bowen Island, Canada. Keystone is the most affectionate and chill cat you have ever met. He will climb on you and snuggle you and give a dose of love. He also doesn’t mind dogs at all. #caturday

I find these trains comforting. Frequent trains between Nice and Monaco and pints east and west that stop every ten minutes or so here in Villefranche-sur-mer. It is one of the things about Europe that gives me hope and comfort that I don’t experience in North America.

As I have been visiting Provence this month, I offer for #vendredilecture the English translation of Mirèio by Frederick Mistral which I have been reading during my walking days in this part of the world. I would love to fall into this in the original Provençal. But as it is it evokes the […]

Stairs carved into rock form a shortcut in the old medieval village of Crestet. #footpathfriday

Whistler/Blackcomb from a Lufthansa A370 #fensterfreitag

And now for a #throwbackthursday post. Me in a Canada National soccer team shirt at my 17th birthday, the year before we appeared in our first ever World Cup in 1986 And me a few years ago with George Pakos, the guy who scored the goal that qualified us for that World Cup.

Purpose really is the invisible leader https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/purpose-really-is-the-invisible-leader/

Cassis and some of the mountains of the Calanques National Park, France. #seawednesday

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to […]

I offhandedly posted earlier today that Provence was the Canada of the Roman Empire and all day I’ve been thinking about how right that is!

I wrote this post 18 years ago. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-death-of-smart-conservatism/ I was just thinking today that this trend and the trend of China just muscling itself to the pole position on renewable energy were OBVIOUS to me 20+ years ago. They were obvious to so […]