Jim Lotz – lisa疯马秀 Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa疯马秀 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:28:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Green Horizons /store/green-horizons.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=green-horizons Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:27:34 +0000 /store/green-horizons.html/green-horizons Veteran journalist Jim Lotz tells the history of how the forests of the province have been both ravaged and occasionally preserved over the centuries. It begins with the Mi'kmaq people who relied on the woods for game and useful products. Green Horizons then traces the history of the forests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the ethic of "cut and run" ran rampant, destroying huge numbers of trees as did massive forest fires. The story moves on to the time of saw millers who "took the best and left the rest."

In the first decade of the twentieth century, concern arose among those in the forest industries that the province would run out of wood to sustain them. The first scientific survey by a forester revealed the deplorable state of the province's woodlands because the government's policy towards the forests was one of benign neglect.

Green Horizons also recounts the history of the past 50 years in Nova Scotia's forests through interviews of those directly involved in forestry. Environmentalists add their perspective to the debate that still rages today about fair use of our forests. In recent years, the woodlands of Nova Scotia have been the scene of conflicts and tensions between those who seek to preserve them and others who simply see trees as sources of wealth, to be cut down and made into commercial products.

Born in Liverpool, England in 1929, Jim Lotz has held 25 different jobs ranging from grouse beater in the Scottish Highlands to glacial meteorologist in the Arctic. Coming to Canada in 1954, he was fired from his first job (for just cause) and crashed his car on same day. Since 1960, he has been actively engaged in community-based development and has taught at the Coady International Institute. His travels in search of learning have taken him from Alaska to Slovakia and from the High Arctic to Lesotho. He has written 20 books.

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]]> 54137 Moses Coady /store/moses-coady.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moses-coady Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:10:04 +0000 /store/moses-coady During the Great Depression, Moses Coady, a priest and an educator, set out to rescue people from poverty, dependency and despair. Based at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova […]

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]]> 91928 Canada’s Forgotten Arctic Hero /store/canadas-forgotten-arctic-hero.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canadas-forgotten-arctic-hero Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:07:42 +0000 /store/canadas-forgotten-arctic-hero.html/canadas-forgotten-arctic-hero This is the terrific true adventure of an unjustly forgotten Cape Bretoner, Canada's first photographer of the High Arctic. George Rice emerged as a leader on an American Arctic expedition and died a herosearching for food for his starving comrades. This gripping and painful story is told through George Rice's previously unpublished diaries. Packed with humour, pathos, and magnificent description, this book is a powerful historic and literary event, masterfully presented by Jim Lotz who, seventy-five years later on Operation Hazen, served in the footsteps of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.

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]]> 54247 Sharing the Journey /store/sharing-the-journey.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sharing-the-journey Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:58:13 +0000 /store/sharing-the-journey.html/sharing-the-journey Sharing the Journey tells of the author鈥檚 life and adventures from the far reaches of Canada to Lesotho in Southern Africa and from Slovakia to Alaska. Always an independent and mindful thinker, prepared to take the road that best suited his skills and beliefs, Jim shares what he has learned during his years working at 25 different jobs from farmer to university professor.

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]]> 56287 The Gold of the Yukon /store/the-gold-of-the-yukon.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-gold-of-the-yukon Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:57:17 +0000 /store/the-gold-of-the-yukon.html/the-gold-of-the-yukon The Gold of the Yukon tells the story of the decline of Dawson City and the state of gold mining in the early 1960s; and The Moral Equivalent of War (The Working Centre) examines ways in which human energy is being directed to peaceful pursuits in development, highlighting the role of social and community entrepreneurs.

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]]> 56249 Best Journey in the World /store/best-journey-in-the-world.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=best-journey-in-the-world Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:54:46 +0000 /store/best-journey-in-the-world.html/best-journey-in-the-world This sweeping narrative tells the story of Operation Hazen, part of Canada's contribution to the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58. Author Jim Lotz found himself in an expedition to carry out scientific research and explore the icecaps of Northern Ellesmere Island, the most northerly island in the world. He served as a glacial-meteorologist on this project and another American venture along the coast of the island.
Most tales of the far, far north focus on hardship and suffering. Lotz writes of the rewards of going to the extreme, and examines why people join polar expeditions. Humorous and lyrical, the book describes this remote and beautiful part of Canada. But he also underscores the harsh realities of global warming. The book brings into focus the many successful and unsuccessful polar organizations that came before and examine the role of leadership and how humans behave in isolation.
Overall, it is the most amazing tale of a witty, humble man living in extraordinary conditions and how it reshaped the way he lived his life and saw the world. Lotz writes, "In out increasingly grim, stressed-out world, a trip tp the polar regions is a journey into the heart of lightness, those pure pristine parts of nature where you plumb the depths of your own being as your spirit soars in the clear blue air."

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]]> 56213 Father Jimmy /store/father-jimmy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=father-jimmy Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:33:58 +0000 /store/father-jimmy Jim Lotz is a respected community development writer and animator; Michael R. Welton is the Director of Adult Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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]]> 87553 Sustainable People /store/sustainable-people.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sustainable-people Thu, 22 Nov 2018 04:00:00 +0000 /store/sustainable-people.html/sustainable-people This book deals with a new role that has emerged as communities all over the world struggle to gain more control over their destinies as globalization accelerates.Community entrepreneurs create organizations that encourage people to learn their way out of poverty, dependency and marginalization. By participating in such innovative ventures, individuals become more self-sustaining and able to create good lives for themselves and others in their own communities or wherever the choose to settle.Sustainable People moves discussion about social and economic change from abstract terms such as 鈥渃ommunity鈥 and 鈥渄evelopment鈥 by focusing on what individuals and groups are actually doing to encourage personal and community development, it documents the background of the role of the entrepreneur, the kinds of organizations they create, their learning process and the moral basis of their initiatives.

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