Chris Wood

The Last Word: Everything Is Free Now

2 May, 2012 | Chris Wood

They’re giving it all away! For those who create for a living, whatever shape their art takes, the 21st century has brought not one but two paradigm-altering changes. We share with everyone else the experience of our hospitable planet descending into climate chaos and ecological overdraft. But, thanks to the other shift under way, what we make of that decay is no longer our own. ...

Published in: Art & Media 38.3

The Last Word: Media Messing the Message

13 April, 2011 | Chris Wood

FROM OUR oneness with the oceans to the layers of hubris that loosed a toxic gusher on the Gulf of Mexico, the stories in this ecobooks issue of Alternatives amply demonstrate a truism: Nothing is simple. Ancients believed four elements explained all existence. Now we know that even the periodic table doesn’t begin to account for a universe of quarks and bosons and tangled dimensions.

Which brings me to media ecology.

Published in: EcoBooks 37.3

Water House Rules

7 December, 2010 | Chris Wood

From Vancouver Island’s southern Seymour mountain range to its dry eastern coast, the Cowichan River drains a 930-square-kilometre landscape – an area a little smaller than Ontario’s Prince Edward County. With its rural charm and boast as Canada’s warmest locale (its name means “warm land” in the local Hul’qumi’num language), the Cowichan valley has become a magnet for retirees and disenchanted urbanites.

Published in: Water 37.1
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