Up on the Broughton Archipelago, off northern Vancouver Island, the whale researcher Alexandra Morton is measuring an extinction. She has lived there for many years, and knows the waters intimately. She knows that something very terrible is happening, before her eyes. The juvenile wild salmon that are descending the fresh-water rivers on their way to […]
Author Archives: Guy Dauncey
Living Hope
People need people. We need the smiles, the glances, the ebb and flow of daily relationships. They nurture our souls, touch our emotions, and feed the sense that we are human. For all of the many million years that we have been humans, we have lived together as a clan, tribe or community, living in […]
Living Hope – Water, Spirit & Peace
The occupation of Iraq has gone ahead; Iraq’s people have been freed from Saddam Hussein’s Stalinist rule. The Shi’ite muslims are free to worship again; the political prisoners have been released from their torment. To achieve this, thousands of children, civilians and young soldiers have had their heads blown off, their limbs torn off by […]
Coffee, Justice and Love
Coffee – it’s such a small but innocent pleasure. But could it also hold the key to global change? Believe it or not, after oil, coffee is the world’s second largest traded commodity. In 50 countries, 20 million farming families (60 to 80 million people) depend on coffee for their income. Every day, they tend […]
Living Hope: The Power of Love
There was once a mountain, and if you stood on top of the mountain at dawn, you could see the most beautiful sun rising over an incredible land, full of grace, full of peace and meaning. On the plains between you and the sunrise, however, there was a great black barrier, acting like a huge […]