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Thanks and welcome: NSEN would like to thank out-going Steering Committee member Anna McCarron. The combination of a new full-time job and a growing family meant Anna had to leave our circle, but we are grateful for her contributions to a critical period in our work, and of course we will be keeping in touch. By good fortune, at almost the same time, Meinhard Doelle of The Clean Nova Scotia Foundation accepted an invitation to join the Steering Committee. So, a warm welcome to Meinhard! Words from abroad: the following came by email from a friend, Bill Pardy, a free-lance Canadian community development advisor from Newfoundland, where he was once mayor of Pasedena. He is currently working for the local authorities with people living in the coastal villages and communities in the Northeast of Scotland. He writes: "A different tune is emerging, which like the music of life, began in the quiet, the refuge of the growing numbers who feel marginalised and disadvantaged. It is gaining in crescendo as the tune becomes known and the chorus becomes louder. "It has been murmured in the recent mass rallies in the United States. It was muted in Atlantic Canada, as rebellion appeared imminent in response to the depletion of the world's richest fishery. "It was voiced in the protests in France against unemployment. And, most recently, it was vocalised in the ring of fire and protest walk in Britain to warn against further depletion of farming and rural lifestyles. "Almost everywhere, one sees this tune emerging from the formerly quiet low-keyed majorities of people, who had, up until now, given over their lyrics to governments, in order for them to create the music. As this new tune is becoming known, the chorus grows louder, as these same people realise how disconnected from themselves their governments have become. "These movements and stirrings allow light to shine on the darkest corners of minds that have been enthralled by those performing their dances of fear and ego in the very shadows of the spirit. "This exposure to hope encourages the essence of real leadership to emerge, bringing its humility of thought, rhythm of motion, and resonance of spirit. "Such leadership, in tune with its people, in harmony with a more natural approach to governance and a belief in the ideal of democratic equality, will hear the music of the excluded, disadvantaged and marginalised. "Once heard, this music will move them to rebuild the balance and harmony of our economic, social and spiritual basis of living; the balance and harmony that has been the foundation of hope, humanness and equality since time began." -30- THE NOVA SCOTIA ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK IS A PROVINCIAL AFFILIATE OF THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR PUBLIC FUNDING PROVIDED THROUGH ENVIRONMENT CANADA AND THE NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT Contact: Don Black, Coordinator (902) 422-7110, fax: (902) 422-7117 nsen@web.net
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