Friends,
We’re excited to announce that our new website, built entirely by our brilliant volunteers, is online and ready for you to view. Please check it out at:
We hope you will find it an informative and helpful resource. We will be adding new material to the website frequently, so please check back. And of course, spread the word by sending the link to family and friends. It's easy to sign on to our mailing list through the home page, for those who haven’t yet done so.
Other news: a sign has been posted at the proposed site of the Sundance development at 143 Victoria announcing the project. No new information is presented in this notice. The date for the public meeting still hasn't been announced. We will let you know as soon as we hear anything more.
If we go quiet for a while in the coming weeks please know it doesn’t mean we’ve dropped the ball. We continue to be hard at work on several projects and will update you… next year!
Meanwhile we wish you happy holidays, and all the very best for 2024. As a special year-end gesture, we leave you with a couple of brief excerpts from Braiding Sweetgrass, a beacon of a book for the field of conservation written by environmentalist and indigenous scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer. We hope you find enjoyment and inspiration in these texts.
Thank you for all your support this year,
The Team @ PWEP
The Philosopher’s Wool Environmental Preserve
2 Alma Street
Tiverton, ON
Respectfully acknowledging that we live, work and benefit from the Lands and Waters of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation.
"Many Indigenous peoples share the understanding that we are each endowed with a particular gift, a unique ability. Birds to sing and stars to glitter, for instance. It is understood that these gifts have a dual nature, though: a gift is also a responsibility. If the bird's gift is song, then it has a responsibility to greet the day with music. It is the duty of birds to sing and the rest of us receive the song as a gift. Asking what is our responsibility is perhaps also to ask, What is our gift? And how shall we use it?"
~ Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (p. 347, 2013 Milkweed Editions)
"The moral covenant of reciprocity calls us to honor our responsibilities for all we have been given, for all that we have taken. It's our turn now, long overdue. let us hold a giveaway for Mother Earth, spread our blankets out for her and pile them high with gifts of our own making [...]. Whatever our gift, we are called to give it and to dance for the renewal of the world.
In return for the privilege of breath."
~ Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (p. 384, 2013 Milkweed Editions)
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