Oliver and International Day of Climate Action

Published 24th October 2009 - 1 comments - 1837 views -

Every Saturday morning my son Oliver and I go to the Charlottetown Farmers' Market. Most weeks we take the bus, and today we made a special point of doing this as it was International Day of Climate Action.  On the bus ride up to the market we talked about what the day meant, and Oliver told me that he'd read about climate change in a book about polar bears.  This prompted us to walk across the street from the market to the new "collaboratory" at the University of Prince Edward Island – a free, public facility full of video and audio editing equipment – where I shot a short video and then taught Oliver how to use iMovie to edit it and publish it to YouTube:

Here's the resulting movie:

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Peter Rukavina
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Writer, Broadcaster, Programmer, Designer

Peter Rukavina leads Reinvented Inc., a Canadian website design and construction company.

Before founding Reinvented Inc., Peter worked for 15 years as a freelance computer programmer and graphic designer for clients including the Royal Ontario Museum, Canadian Tire, and the University of Toronto and for a wide variety of small business and not-for-profit clients.

In addition to his work in the information technology industry, Peter is a journeyman printer, and has worked as program director of a community radio station, office manager of a political campaign, co-publisher of a community Who’s Who, and as publicist for the modern dancer Bill Coleman.

Peter is an occasional contributor to CBC Prince Edward Island’s Island Morning, Maritime Noon and Main Street radio programs, and has been blogging for more than 10 years at ruk.ca.

Peter, his companion Catherine Miller, and their son Oliver live in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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