Student blogs

COURSE PARTICIPANT BLOGS and short stories

Each year, the participants of CoPEH-Canada's hybrid course write a blog or short story on a topic of their choice related to ecosystem approaches to health and share with the other participants. Then everyone votes on their top three and the three highest scoring pieces are published here. Along with the votes, participants have to provide a tweet for each blog they voted for, which we then use to publisize the blogs from our @copeh_canada twitter account. 

 

2023 HYBRID COURSE PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

The POP Problem By Ramneek Cheema	My Place with Food and Nature (or Tomatoes for Potatoes) By Kira Johnson	Changing the flow of water: The Kenny Dam and disruption of systems By Amy Klepetar

2022 HYBRID COURSE PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

Environmental Protectionism Through Waffle Bowls Not Waffle Cones By Nicole Cupolo	Following a River of Reciprocity and Hope By Angel Kennedy	There is a Monster in the Lake by Julie Truelove

2021 HYBRID COURSE PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

Kids getting their hands dirty: A step in outdoor learning By Kristine Pohorilyj	Tent-sion brewing? Balancing the health of parks and people as pandemic camping ramps up By Catherine Reining

 

2020 HYBRID COURSE PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

A Bitter Farewell to Chocolate By Jamie Goltz	A wolf track a day… keeps the doctor away? By Ella Parker	Colonization's Collateral Damage and the Sweet Blood of Indigenous People By Marina Wanes

 

2019 HYBRID COURSE PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

Killing Us Softly with Denim Production By Jenn Diederich	The new danger that hides under water bodies due to climate change By Mohamed T Adam Mohamed	Plastic pollution a threat to the marine environment—are there bigger fish to fry? By Sarah Robinson

 

2018 HYBRID COURSE PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

Demand for beer cans tied to ancestral bones washing ashore in BC By Jenn Diederich	Green as a colour-blind approach to ‘activism’ By Bianca Dreyer	Leaded blood: is the Cerro de Pasco community left out? By Stefany Ildefonso

 

2017 HYBRID COURSE PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

Girls Rock Camp North: An Ecosystems Approach to Summer Camp? By Shayna Dolan	An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure By Charles Paco	Canada 150: A Bitter Slice of Watermelon to Swallow By Marlee Vinegar

  

 

2015 INTENSIVE FIELD SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS' BLOGS

Three of the blogs written in the context of the 8th CoPEH-Canada field school (2015; Montréal) were published on the "Semaine du Saint-Laurent" website (French only), in conjunction with the the David Suzuki Foundation, in the lead up to their 4th edition of the Saint Lawrence River appreciation week. 

Écrit par Paul Carrière, Julia MacDonald, Julie Mallet, Jean Paul Kabemba Lukusa

L'eau, ses habitats et ses habitants

Écrit par Lauren Yee, Bénédicte Calvet, Marina Favrim Gasparin, Charles Cardinal et Jolène Santerre