25 Mar 2011 Event Production Ecotone produces events for advocacy, public education and fundraising. Recent events produced by Chris Lowry include the 4th annual Brewers Plate, the GET Smart Speaker Series with Green Enterprise Toronto, and several social networking events in a variety of Toronto venues. In 2010 Chris also consulted on successful events for…
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25 Mar 2011 The Brewers Plate The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later. The 4th annual Brewers Plate April 6 at the Wychwood Barns was a sold-out success. For Info and tickets for April 2012 click here. I started the event as a project of Green Enterprise Toronto, and now…
This is a series from Southern Spain —Granada, Seville, the Alpujarra range, the coast at Nerja, and Cordoba. I was traveling to meet a colleague at a film conference, and spent a week exploring this magical region, Andalusia, alone. I had a recently broken heart. I think that brought a heightened awareness, a kind of…
26 Mar 2011 The Exile of Poetic Imagination This essay looks at my work promoting the use of expressive arts therapies with war-affected kids, and the challenges we faced in this work. Boy with kite, Bamian, Afghanistan (Photo by Chris Lowry) I am interested in the transformative power of theatre and ritual. “At its deepest…
Archive for March 24th, 2011 24 Mar 2011 Camping On Walden Pond No Comments Words This fresh look at Thoreau’s life in the woods may surprise you. Read more 24 Mar 2011 The Last Humanitarian No Comments Words After I left Médecins Sans Frontières in 2002, it took me some time to sort out my…
25 Mar 2011 Video Production Ecotone is currently developing new documentary projects. Keep an eye on the site for details.
26 Mar 2011 What Do You Mean By Green? Green filters, certification, screening criteria, eye of the green needle—how do you know if you’re ‘green’ enough? Now that we’re getting serious about climate change and the rising cost of energy, every corporation and every organization can benefit from a bit of greening. In Europe and…
Archive for March 29th, 2011 29 Mar 2011 Jane Jacobs: Prophet of Globalization? Yes, but with a (local) human face No Comments Words Inspired by the Ideas that Matter conference celebrating Jane Jacobs in 1997, this essay is an effort to place her work within the continuing debate about how globalization works, and where we…
“In times like these,” says Thomas Berry, “…we need people who realize that we are shaping a new order of things.”
Archive for March 26th, 2011 26 Mar 2011 Jesus of Guadalajara No Comments Words During the ten years that I worked with Street Kids International, I met a lot of cool, big hearted people working in the field around the world. This is a portrait of one of the best: Rogelio Padilla. Read more 26…
Whenever I see an interesting texture… I wish I had my camera with me.
25 Mar 2011 New Article in Alternatives Journal and Other News Update from Chris Lowry (March 2010): In March I gave a guest lecture to Dror Etzion’s MBA class at McGill University, for the second time, by Skype, on a laptop in my Toronto office, on the subject of local living economies and green business….