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"At a school with a locked-away ivorytower board of governors, one can feel hopeless to try to engage real change, Darwish of the Sierra Club told the group. "In my year it was cool to be an activist. It was cool to fuck shit up, but campuses are getting more corporate."" ( The Sheaf | Vol.99 Issue 22/ Jan. 24 2008 | pdf file ) "The Prairies Sustainable Campuses Conference will bring together campus community members from across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta to build a regional network as part of the national movement to institutionalize social and environmental sustainability on campus." ( Prairie Sustainable Campus Conference ) Saskatchewan Education for Sustainable Development Mike Hudema Liela Darwish Rosa Kouri - See: Politics Environment Activism :: note :: ... a rich example of students working on important issues ... wishing to document this ...

"How can you occupy a place and also have it occupy you? How can you find such a reciprocity? . . . The key, I think, is to become vulnerable to a place. If you open yourself up, you can build intimacy. Out of such intimacy may come a sense of belonging, a sense of not being isolated in the universe. . . . . Concentrate instead on feeling a place, on deliberately using the sense of proprioception. Where in this volume of space are you situated? The space behind you is as important as what you see before you. What lies beneath you is as relevant as what stands on the far horizon. Actively use your ears to imagine the acoustical hemisphere you occupy. " ( A Literature of Place by Barry Lopez/via Bowen Island Journal: May 18 ) :: comment :: ... need to document place ... more will come ... this comment is not frozen in time or space ...

. . . "76% of North Americans consider themselves environmentalists" ( more . . .)