Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 4:47PM It is a misty Manitoba morning and I like it that way. I have been to exotic locations but give me a prairie morning with a meadowlark greeting me with her rhapsody of song and the smell of the earth in the air and I will be content.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 8:26AM 
Spring is a most wonderful time of year. The shades of dirty white, black and brown give way to a proliferation of greens. The evergreens are the stable background green from which to judge the new growth, first the grasses then the poplar trees. This year it took quite a while to see that green haze on the poplar trees, the indication that my dad uses to determine the time to start planting.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 10:04AM
La Broquerie to Ottawa on a Tandem Bicycle – Wade and Jacinthe Wiebe
In 2016, we started riding our bikes again. By August 2017, we were on our way to Ottawa on a tandem bike! We will be giving a 90-minute presentation about the experience at the Seine-Rat River Conservation District office in Steinbach. Hope to see you there!
Location: Seine-Rat River Conservation District office, 154 Friesen Ave, Steinbach
Date: Thursday, May 24th at 7:00pm
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 10:19AM _(cropped).jpg)
In a previous article, we discovered five psychological barriers that make it difficult to accept and act on messages about climate change: Distancing, Doom, Dissonance, Denial and iDentity. But in an interview on the podcast “You Are Not So Smart”, psychologist Per Espen Stoknes also described five elements of messaging which can effectively overcome these barriers: Social, Supportive, Simple, Stories, and Signals. Let’s look at how these can work:
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 9:59AM 
I'm a child of the 40s; a baby boomer. So pretty massive changes have occurred during my lifetime. Today I want to look at just two of them, and think, together with you about whether they have been for the good or not for the good. I am still healthy, nevertheless my age is advancing, and because of that I wonder whether those of my generation are leaving the earth a better place or a poorer place than the earth we inherited. David Dawson said in this column last week “humans are said to be the most intelligent animals on the planet.” Have we exhibited that intelligence?