April 3rd at 6 p.m. Isabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles St W, Toronto The front lines can be seen in Greenland, where ice is melting, or in Miami, where seas are rising, or in the interior of British Columbia where fires are burning. But they can also be seen in Burrard inlet, where oil tankers [...]
The Bob Hunter Archive is housed in Robart’s Library at the University of Toronto. The collection, which is in process of being catalogued and digitized, has already revealed at least 5 unpublished novels, a wealth of correspondence with key figures, research files on everything from nuclear testing, environmental degradation to indigenous rights, spirituality, consciousness and [...]
A memorial for Dan will be held on Saturday, May 27th 2017 from 1 - 4pm Venue: Trinity- St. Paul United Church Gym 427 Bloor St W., Toronto Dan was born in Rochester, New York and pre-deceased by his parents, William (Bill) and Ruth McDermott and by his life partner, Helen Rykens. Dan and Helen were the love of [...]
I have been working away in the Bob Hunter Archive at Robart's Library at the University of Toronto and it is getting really intriguing. You can catch up with what has been happening on that front by reading the Saturday Toronto Star interview and article that Marco Oved did last weekend: The Bob Hunter we never [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a seminar, organized by UofT’s School of the Environment, on the 33rd floor of the TD Tower in Toronto. Given the nature and content of the lecture I gave for the Robert Hunter Memorial lecture last April Fool's Day, I was a bit mystified as to [...]
Welcome to the first Bathrobe blog posting! The 10th Annual Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture at the University of Toronto's School of the Environment on April 1st came much faster than the two years of preparation makes apparent. And the 35 years that it took to create the feature length documentary based on Bob's life and [...]
Adbusters, who sparked Occupy Wall Street and Buy Nothing Day, is doing their next big campaign called #MindBombs. Bob Hunter coined the terms "Mind Bombs" as a means of using broadcast media (or media tools in general) as a tool for change to spark a consciousness revolution. Appropriately today, Adbusters is trying to take back [...]
How To Change The World is a feature-length documentary by director Jerry Rothwell (co-production by MET Films/ Insight Productions) that chronicles the adventures of an eclectic group of young pioneers in the environmental movement. They were a loose group of Canadian hippie journalists, photographers, musicians, scientists and American draft dodgers – who set out to [...]
This year's Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture came full circle. Every year we celebrate Bob's life and legacy at the University of Toronto where students who excel in their studies on climate change are given a scholarship in his name. This year, we brought in a new speaker and philosopher, Thomas Hart to share Hunter's "mind [...]
The highly-anticipated film about the story of Robert Hunter and the birth of Greenpeace has premiered at Sundance Film Festival with a bang. Called "How to Change the World" hit the screen for the first time with standing ovations, great reviews in Variety and IndieWire and the prestigious Special Jury award for best editing. The [...]