Public Presentations - 2015 Archives

  • February 25, 2015: David Bowering - “Citizens or Consumers? Health vs. ‘The Economy’”
    Dr. David Bowering is a former General Practitioner and retired Chief Medical Health Officer with Northern Health.  "The Economy" is frequently referred to in health-related terms:  a "healthy economy," an "ailing economy," "an economy on life support," etc. Dr. Bowering has become increasingly interested in the relationship between our current obsession with the health of the economy and its effect on human health and well being. He will be discussing this from a professional perspective, as a long time resident of Northwest BC, and as a grandfather considering the prospects for both current and future generations. Rather than offer a diagnosis and a prescription Dr. Bowering hopes to help stimulate critical thinking about the economy informed by our current understanding of what makes people healthy.
  • March 25, 2015: Norma Kerby - “Monitoring for Amphibians in Northwest British Columbia”
    Since 2011, volunteers with the NWBC Reptile and Amphibian Monitoring Program have been monitoring amphibians from Dease Lake to Ft.St.James, and along Highway 16 to Prince Rupert and Kitimat.  Over the last five years, interesting trends in amphibian distributions have been recorded in this successful citizen science program.  Surprising aspects of the ecology of northern amphibians have important ramifications in the management of amphibian habitats.
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  • November 18, 2015: Film Showing and Discussion: “The Power of One Voice” About the Life and Impact of Rachel Carson
    The Power of One Voice: A 50 Year Perspective on the Life of Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson is widely regarded as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. She grew ups in Springdale, Pennsylvania, where she witnessed first-hand the beauty and genius of nature juxtaposed with the ecological devastation caused by industrialization. Carson’s widely recognized talent as a writer, combined with her deep knowledge of the natural world, made her a potent advocate for the use of the precaution when working with biological systems. In 1962 her best-selling book, Silent Spring, awoke the environmental consciousness of America with poignant words of caution in the face of rapidly advancing scientific progress.
  • November 25, 2015: Amy Klepetar (UNBC Terrace campus) and Matt Beedle (NWCC and UNBC): “Eight Thousand Kilometers in a Year: The Slow Way”
    On a layover in an airport in 2012, we started half-joking, half-daydreaming about taking time off to have a big adventure together as a family. Before having kids, we had traveled quite a lot together, and had especially loved our bicycle tours. Since starting a family, our travels became mainly centred around seeing one set of grandparents or the other, and our adventures became shorter and much closer to home, although they were exciting nonetheless! Inviting passing cyclists to stay in our home through warmshowers.org and commuting to school and work by bicycle kept our minds in the bike touring world, and eventually the time seemed to be as good as any to set off on our own tour. We left Terrace in June of 2014 and spent the next year out in the world with everything we needed (including our two kids, aged 3 and 5 at the time) attached to our bicycles. We were loaded down, we stopped often, and we didn’t travel very far each day. However, we had the time of our lives and learned some important lessons about ourselves, our world, and the wonderful people in it.
    In this presentation, we’ll talk a bit about planning and executing a trip like this, we’ll show photos from our trip including the sections in Europe, South America, and the Pacific Coast of the US, and we’ll tell stories from the road.
  • December 9, 2015: Rod Link (Terrace Standard): “Dealing with the Myths and Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Community Newspaper Business”