Rex Weyler's most recent book is "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World (Raincoast Books, 2004)".

Rex Weyler sailed on the first Greenpeace whale voyage in 1975, edited the Greenpeace Chronicles newspaper from 1976-1980 and now serves as a Director Greenpeace International Marine Services.

Rex received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his Native American history, Blood of the Land, and he co-authored the self-help classic Chop Wood, Carry Water.

Rex co-founded Hollyhock Educational Centre on Cortes Island, dedicated to environmental, personal, and professional studies, which remains Canada’s leading educational retreat Centre. He writes a regular column for Shared Vision magazine and his photographs and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Oceans, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, New Age Journal, and National Geographic.

He is editor-at-large for Dragonfly Media in the US and Canada, writes for magazines and newspapers, and is widely reprinted on the Internet. He lives in Vancouver, BC, is married, and has three sons.  click here to learn more about Rex

Speaking of Gaia, The New Divinity

This is Gaia’s story, the divine story, which has been hijacked throughout history by power, ideology, and money. The earth endures patiently, but her long patience with humanity appears to be finding its limits. We ignore Gaia’s pleadings at our peril.

The old fallacious faith that we could control nature has proven a tragic conceit. Honouring nature breeds a respect for diversity, which suggests an ethic of tolerance in human affairs. Diversity equals stability, not only in the ancient forest, but also in economics and culture.

Our monocrops and monocultures become breeding grounds of disease, both physical and social. We now must not only devise a divinity that embraces the truth of the earth, we must design a human culture to meet the demands of nature, rather than tack nature onto our theories of market economy.

Location: Main Floor, Terasen Gas Building (formerly BC Gas) 1111 West Georgia @ Thurlow, Vancouver BC

$15.00 Members, $20.00 Non-Members
Includes sandwiches, salad, coffee and tea.

RSVP phone: 604.685.6560
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Please RSVP by Wednesday May 18th so we can make accurate catering arrangements.  Thank you.

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