“Don’t bite off more than you can chew.” “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.” Why is it that so many proverbs about managing your workload are related to food? (Okay, so maybe I’m cheating a little bit with that last one, but chickens are food […]
Reviewing the 2016 Horse River Wildfire: Key lessons from reflecting on Alberta’s largest natural disaster event
By: Alexandra Martin One year after the devastating Horse River Wildfire raged though Northern Alberta, multiple reports covering a broad range of lessons learned and recommendations have been published. While the scopes of the reports ranged from evaluating the responses of the Government of Alberta to the future role of Industry partners in the region, […]
Entering Ecuador
by Kevin Wang As I sat down in my seat on my flight to Ecuador, I started to panic. As I heard the other passengers around me speaking in Spanish, it was finally starting to hit me. I was leaving the Western world I was used to and heading into a vastly different, unknown world. […]
Beauty and the Beast
San Pedro, Belize is a small Caribbean city located on an island; just a few miles from the second largest coral reef in the world. In the air or on the ground, the beauty of the sandy beaches with its cool, clear waves along with the stereotypical palm trees providing some shades from the warm […]
Starfish in Italy
I sat on the roof of the volunteer house at 11:00pm, in Camini, Italy. The bats fluttered around me, but nothing else stirred. This was the place where I felt I could breathe and remove myself from everything that had gone on at my volunteer placement; alone and surrounded by the Italian night sky. Holding […]
Making the Best of a Bad Situation
Prior to starting my stretch experience, I was originally set on a completely different path. I knew that I wanted to do something involving the environment as that is what I am passionate about. When my first plan didn’t work out, I tried reaching out to a possible opportunity through my cousin’s wife in the […]
How will I change the world? By starting with the environment of course!
Ah yes, the environment. It has granted us with so much to thrive on – natural resources, breathtaking views and enough land mass to manufacture so much chocolate, it would leave you wondering why anyone would ever want to destroy it, right? Well sadly there are evil forces such as powerful orange demagogues that seek […]
