A Canadian climate of mind : passages from fur to energy and beyond

Looking at climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a state of the human spirit. This Book Deals With Climate Change Not Only As A Feature Of The Physical World But Also As A Milieu, A State Of Spirit. The Climate Is, In Tim Leduc's Terms, The Context Within Which We Mind All Our Relations. An Ecology Of Mind Is Where Ideas Of Mind-ecology Relations Emerged At The Dawn Of The Environmental Movement, And It's Important For The Author To Explore Those Ideas In A Specifically Canadian Context. For Example, He Juxtaposes The Ontario Biologist John Livingston And William Woodworth, An Architect And A Mohawk From The Six Nations Territory In Southern Ontario; He Also Incorporates Ideas From Other Canadians, Such As John Ralston Saul's Vision Of Canada As A Metis Nation. What Leduc Calls The Braided Metis Strand Of Thought Allows Him To Bring Livingston's Ecology Of Mind Into Dialogue With Woodworth's Haudenosaunee Good Mind. The Author's Own Summary Of The Book Reads As Follows: We Are Living In A Climate Of Great Environmental And Social Changes. These Global Changes Are Central To A Canadian Climate Of Mind, Though They Are Situated In A Canadian Colonial History That Reveals The Cultural Challenge Central To A Sustainable Future. The Book Begins By Contemplating The Two Row Wampum Treaty, Which Represents An Indigenous Canoe And A Settler Ship Traversing Our Common Waters. Such A Symbol Has Much To Teach About Missed Historic Opportunities And The Respect That Is Central To Renewing Relations. In Attempting To Convert The Indigenous Canoe To The Ways Of The Ship, And Our Common Waters (land, Energy) To Usable Resources, Great Turbulence Has Ensued. Environmental Disturbances Like Climate Change Are A Sign Of This; So Were The Residential Schools. While The Wampum's Two Rows Are Vital, The Book Is Primarily Concerned With Imagining Spaces From Which To Reweave Indigenous And Settler Approaches To Land/water/climate.-- Illustrations -- Foreword By William Woodworth Raweno:kwas -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Oh! Stranger -- When The Pain Started -- Meeting Place In The Forest -- Shapes Of Violence -- Protectress Of Canada -- One Mind, One Heart, One Mouth -- Darkness Will Cover The Earth -- A Life That Is Real -- Epilogue: Look With Reverence -- Glossary Of Indigenous And Braided Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Timothy B. Leduc. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format. "This book deals with climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a milieu, a state of spirit. The climate is, in Tim Leduc's terms, "the context within which we mind all our relations." An ecology of mind is where ideas of mind-ecology relations emerged at the dawn of the environmental movement, and it's important for the author to explore those ideas in a specifically Canadian context. For example, he juxtaposes the Ontario biologist John Livingston and William Woodworth, an architect and a Mohawk from the Six Nations territory in southern Ontario; he also incorporates ideas from other Canadians, such as John Ralston Saul's vision of Canada as a metis nation. What Leduc calls "the braided metis strand of thought" allows him to "bring Livingston's ecology of mind into dialogue with Woodworth's Haudenosaunee Good Mind." The author's own summary of the book reads as follows: "We are living in a climate of great environmental and social changes. These global changes are central to A Canadian Climate of Mind, though they are situated in a Canadian colonial history that reveals the cultural challenge central to a sustainable future. The book begins by contemplating the Two Row Wampum treaty, which represents an Indigenous canoe and a settler ship traversing our common waters. Such a symbol has much to teach about missed historic opportunities and the respect that is central to renewing relations. In attempting to convert the Indigenous canoe to the ways of the ship, and our common waters (land, energy) to usable resources, great turbulence has ensued. Environmental disturbances like climate change are a sign of this; so were the residential schools. While the wampum's two rows are vital, the book is primarily concerned with imagining spaces from which to reweave Indigenous and settler approaches to land/water/climate."-- Provided by publisher." "This book deals with climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a milieu, a state of spirit. The climate is, in Tim Leduc's terms, "the context within which we mind all our relations." An ecology of mind is where ideas of mind-ecology relations emerged at the dawn of the environmental movement, and it's important for the author to explore those ideas in a specifically Canadian context. For example, he juxtaposes the Ontario biologist John Livingston and William Woodworth, an architect and a Mohawk from the Six Nations territory in southern Ontario; he also incorporates ideas from other Canadians, such as John Ralston Saul's vision of Canada as a metis nation. What Leduc calls "the braided metis strand of thought" allows him to "bring Livingston's ecology of mind into dialogue with Woodworth's Haudenosaunee Good Mind." The author's own summary of the book reads as follows: "We are living in a climate of great environmental and social changes. These global changes are central to A Canadian Climate of Mind, though they are situated in a Canadian colonial history that reveals the cultural challenge central to a sustainable future. The book begins by contemplating the Two Row Wampum treaty, which represents an Indigenous canoe and a settler ship traversing our common waters. Such a symbol has much to teach about missed historic opportunities and the respect that is central to renewing relations. In attempting to convert the Indigenous canoe to the ways of the ship, and our common waters (land, energy) to usable resources, great turbulence has ensued. Environmental disturbances like climate change are a sign of this; so were the residential schools. While the wampum's two rows are vital, the book is primarily concerned with imagining spaces from which to reweave Indigenous and settler approaches to land/water/climate."--Site web de l'éditeur "This book deals with climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a milieu, a state of spirit. The climate is, in Tim Leduc's terms, "the context within which we mind all our relations." An ecology of mind is where ideas of mind-ecology relations emerged at the dawn of the environmental movement, and it's important for the author to explore those ideas in a specifically Canadian context. For example, he juxtaposes the Ontario biologist John Livingston and William Woodworth, an architect and a Mohawk from the Six Nations territory in southern Ontario; he also incorporates ideas from other Canadians, such as John Ralston Saul's vision of Canada as a metis nation. What Leduc calls "the braided metis strand of thought" allows him to "bring Livingston's ecology of mind into dialogue with Woodworth's Haudenosaunee Good Mind." The author's own summary of the book reads as follows: "We are living in a climate of great environmental and social changes. These global changes are central to A Canadian Climate of Mind, though they are situated in a Canadian colonial history that reveals the cultural challenge central to a sustainable future. The book begins by contemplating the Two Row Wampum treaty, which represents an Indigenous canoe and a settler ship traversing our common waters. Such a symbol has much to teach about missed historic opportunities and the respect that is central to renewing relations. In attempting to convert the Indigenous canoe to the ways of the ship, and our common waters (land, energy) to usable resources, great turbulence has ensued. Environmental disturbances like climate change are a sign of this; so were the residential schools. While the wampum's two rows are vital, the book is primarily concerned with imagining spaces from which to reweave Indigenous and settler approaches to land/water/climate."-- Résumé de l'éditeur The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global. A Canadian Climate of Mind presents stories that emerge from the waters, lands, and climate of Canada, and which have the potential to renew a compassionate energy for changing human relations with each other and with our world. The turbulent effects of climate change are popularly discussed in the modern language of scientific knowledge, political policies, economic mechanisms, and technological innovation. While there is much to be learned from these views, Timothy Leduc suggests a more profound call for change by returning to past understandings of the land and climate. He argues that the world is initiating us into a broader and humbler sense of what it is to be human in an interconnected reality. The world is doing this by responding to unsustainable practices such as our devastating reliance on fossil fuels. Weaving together voices from numerous backgrounds and time periods with Indigenous views on present and past environmental challenges, A Canadian Climate of Mind illuminates a world that is being shaken to its core while we hesitate to act. Cover Copyright Contents Illustrations Foreword William Woodworth Raweno: kwas Acknowledgments Introduction Oh! Stranger ... 1 When the Pain Started 2 Meeting Place in the Forest 3 Shapes of Violence 4 Protectress of Canada 5 One Mind, One Heart, One Mouth 6 Darkness Will Cover the Earth 7 A Life That Is Real Epilogue Look with Reverence Glossary of Indigenous and Braided Terms Notes Bibliography Index