Building Bridges

Water Day, every day

Anna Warwick Sears — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:19:08 +0000

“Why isn’t every day Water Day?” – Peter Gleick, on Twitter Dear Readers, Canada Water Week, and World Water Day (March 22) have come and gone, and I hope you all took the opportunity to lift a long, cool glass … Continue reading →

Lessons from Sandy: disaster isn’t our only option

Anna Warwick Sears — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:55:56 +0000

“Do we renovate? Of course we renovate,” Ms. Fisher said. “But what if it happens again, next year and the year after?” – NY Times, 11/23/2012. Unpleasant Weather: Mother Nature gave us a good smacking in 2012, as if to say … Continue reading →

The Dirt Makes the Difference.

Anna Warwick Sears — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:28:07 +0000

“Political stability, environmental quality, hunger, and poverty all have the same root. In the long run, the solution to each is restoring…the soil.” Rattan Lal Soil/Water Conservation: Coming in from the garden this weekend, I went straight to the sink … Continue reading →

The Value of Water

Anna Warwick Sears — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:05:27 +0000

“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.” – Benjamin Franklin Expensive On Other Planets: In Salt Lake City, I once met … Continue reading →

Getting beyond inertia and disaster-driven policy response

Anna Warwick Sears — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:47:39 +0000

“This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.“ – Meryl Streep I’ve been writing about change lately – change in climate … Continue reading →

Mud-bogging and other ways we love the land too hard

Anna Warwick Sears — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:18:46 +0000

“And now you can’t even take your rubber off the road without getting a fine or be accused of tearing up delicate marshland water sheds or creeks… some people love driving a truck thru the mud getting stuck. And having … Continue reading →

Weddings, weird weather, and where to fit everyone

Anna Warwick Sears — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:13:52 +0000

“Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.” – William Jennings Bryan I’m calling 2012 “the year of weddings and babies” – there are dozens popping up on my … Continue reading →

Lift a long, cool glass of gratitude

Anna Warwick Sears — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:21:47 +0000

“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” – Dan Quayle Crammed in a cab with Bob Sanford and David Brooks, listening to adventure stories about Middle East river … Continue reading →

Learning from the landscape: cultivating a sense of place in the Okanagan.

Anna Warwick Sears — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:44:31 +0000

“I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.” Dorothea Mackellar If you want to understand water in the Okanagan, don’t look at the lake, look at the hillside. Sometime … Continue reading →

Nature is a tough mother: adventures in water supply and demand

Anna Warwick Sears — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:57:03 +0000

“Live in the questions, and gradually, and almost without noticing, you will enter the answers and live them also.” – Rainer Maria Rilke What does water sustainability look like? How will we know when we get there? With climate now … Continue reading →