Mike Bell

In our climate changing world  we need to make some significant changes.  The  title of this article suggests that we are moving in the wrong direction.  We are making things worse. We need an “off ramp”–a way […]

This is  a story about how we might redefine our spirituality and Religion in a climate changing world.  It describes how Spirituality should dominate Religion.  Unfortunately over the years religion has do […]

In my twenty-eight years living and working in Inuit and Dene communities in the Canadian Arctic I had many unusual experiences.  But this story is the one I will always remember.   I was driving from Ye […]

Many professions have practicums.  These are periods of study and work that  that are designed is to prepare students for the challenges they will  face when they graduate. In this chronicle I’m  suggesting we hav […]

This chronicle is about the Power of Stories and is divided into three parts.  It begins with stories I have heard working for almost three decades in Inuit and Dene (First Nation) communities in the Canadian […]

This blog is about the need for a climate change culture and the steps we must take to develop one

We are In the midst of  climate changing world.     We need a new and very different approach.  This chronicle is based upon an Earth Jurisprudence.  It talks about the Laws of Nature instead of human laws tryin […]

If  we want to deal with the pandemic and climate change we have to start at the community level and work  up.  This is  the personal story  of a Canadian, Michael Clague.  He is  an expert in community develo […]

In the past four years writing on climate change I’ve published many articles.  But I’ve been looking for an article or book that sums up what we have to do.  I’ve found one.  It is entitled “The Future We Ch […]

We live in a radically climate changing world.  Our problems are  caused by our systems, particularly our economic systems.  We can’t fix  the systems.  We need a new way of learning to develop new systems that […]

This blog starts with an awareness that we are living in a changing world. We are facing   a pandemic and  climate changing world We have to deal with the world we live in and begin to develop a different kind of […]

This blog is about the struggles of the Catholic Church to adapt to a changing world down through the ages. The focus is on church not as a religion but, rather, as an organizational system. It suggests the need […]

At the end of this year we remember the life of John Lewis, a leader in the struggle against racial discrimination. His life provides an example of how we might engage in what he described as “Good Trouble” to […]

In the saddest Christmas with the pandemic that most of us will have ever experienced  we need a way to encourage ourselves. In our family we do it by telling one another stories. This chronicle is about some of […]

Today we find ourselves in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recession and a looming climate change. We can’t depend upon our economic, political and legal systems because they are what are  causing our […]

Years ago Albert Einstein said, “We can’t solve our problems with the the same kind of thinkin we used to create the problems.”  We are facing–a pandemic, a economic recession and the ever looming climate […]

This article uses the insights of Viktor Frank and his experience in Nazi concentration camps to help us develop insights into dealing with climate change. The focus is on the word “meaning” and its practical and […]

After using American Racism with Black Lives Matter as an example of racial discrimination, this chronicle describes Canadian Racism with the Residential School System. It also discusses some necessary reparations.

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We need a climate change culture and a way to develop one.  This  article suggests that we look back in time to the 60’s to the insights of Marshal McLuhan and his concept of the Global Village.  It hasn’t wo […]