Bahai
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Environment geeks unite!
I have just returned to Ottawa from Madison, Wisconsin by way of Toronto, Buffalo , Chicago and Milwaukee to present another version of my research on hope and faith in environmentalism at the first meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) as well as to a group of keeners at the Madison…
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Charlatan article on the Baha’i Faith on campus
Click on the image above to read the online version of an article I was interviewed for on what is like to practice the Baha’i Faith at Carleton University as a member of Carleton’s Association for Baha’i Studies. I tried to convey that it really isn’t difficult to carry out the practical aspects of being…
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Working at the prayer factory
I have finally posted to flickr my set of photos from my month serving at the Baha’i House of Worship in New Delhi, India. Along with some unusual photos of the Lotus Temple there are are pictures of two sun-burnt Quebecers, cockroaches and trash cans at the zoo. Click onwards.
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The Low Carbon Diet Calculator, ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Meat
The great thing about studying ecology is that in every class and lecture everything we look at is relevant and important to our daily lives. I know the anthropologists, sociologists and maybe even the engineers will say the same thing, but I have the bias that ecologists and geographers are the ones that are looking…
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What exactly it was that I was doing in Thailand (again) + Chiang Mai photos posted
THEN / NOW While I was in the geopolitical neighborhood this year I had the chance to offer a month of service with the Baha’i community of Thailand, one of the sites of my 2003-2004 youth year of service. The Thai Baha’i community is a young one compared to many other countries, but many of…
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Thakham village photos posted
Click here to see a handful of shots from my visit to Thakham village near Chiang Mai, Thailand. It features pictures of the village’s youngsters, its oldsters and nothing in between.
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Naw-Ruz Greeting Video and Naw-Ruz in General
My beloved Flickr has just added video functionality so I am posting here the video Naw-Ruz greeting video I was commissioned by the Ottawa holy day celebration master Sherrie Yazdani to make. She asked all Ottawa Baha’is living far and away to send in short greeting videos to be shown all together at the community’s…
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Belguam Photos Posted
Back in September when I learned that I was going to go to some place in India called Dharwad, it was rare to find anyone who had heard of the place, much have been there. Finally, at my last nineteen day feast in Ottawa a friend’s parents not only knew the place but had visited…
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