Invasive species can grow aggressively, outcompeting native plant populations for sunlight, space and nutrients, leading to a wider decline in the wildlife that depends on them. climatecultures.net/portfoli…

And Kim adds personal reflections on her creative approach to sparking conversations about being good ancestors - "an opportunity to take more personal action by initiating rarely had conversations about what it means to be a good ancestor—looking ahead 30, 50,100 years."

"Stoicism is a philosophy that is focused on living a meaningful and virtuous life ... It encourages us all to participate as active members of society, and to do so with a moral obligation to both express virtue towards other peoples, and to care for all creation."

"If the book is effective in that advocacy—if people read it and then tear up their front yards to plant a garden with their children, or even if they grow a bit of kale in a pot on the patio—then I think it is a successful project and I am grateful for it."

Thanks to our 4 students for their short 'object essays': a replica of Columbus’s ship in a Canadian mall; the banana & plantation monocropping; the diamond engagement ring & gendered notions of ownership; the first piece of art produced in space & hope in things held in common.