What does it truly mean to be rich? To own and control assets or to find richness in spirit, Sid needs to know. Plagued by spiritual voices, he sets out on a search for a new investment schema, an improved personal definition of wealth. Inspired by a gym bag toting hitchhiker who says yes I am wealthy and a grandfather's stories of coming with nothing to the new world, Sid makes a decision to listen more intuitively to relatives at a family reunion. A tragic death in the past has some members missing; Uncle Harry who is busy drinking and Aunt Lola ... rumoured rich, yet having run from the...

On foreign contract in Africa, Vince the Calgary oilfield engineer finds his client wants a geoengineering design as the president of Niger campaigns on bringing back a Green Sahara. Driven by his daughter's future, he ignores the risk of being a drone target and takes on political negotiating. Expected to explain climate science to politicians, he becomes immersed in an intense new career. Mutual global wellbeing clashes up against conservative international business-as-usual climate change policies. In a speculated near future, a consortium of High Impact Climate Change Countries opts to...

After a first decade working the patch in oil country Western Canada I experienced a career shift. Heavy oil to urban planning analysis. A more recent decade accelerated my sustainability learning curve into collision with climate change and the world of writing science papers. One academic journal petitioned stories, imagined near future fictions, resulting in a World Scientific anthology, and now in Climate Spirit as Eco History Exam 2052. Another shift-academic to near future speculative tales. Then hope and Dr. Joe Vipond guided my writing of AlberTa's Gift, deep frustration drove Next...

Trailer park kid Josh grew up with his sister Jeira hearing mom's tunes of people power. Finding he learns best out in the streets, he joins a movement of educated young adults recalling President Asha's benefits for all. Inviting his now air surveillance police sister to assist, Josh feels that together they can organize around shela and revive the feminine super conscience memory of Asha into a blunt message for the toorich. Justice will be served-but how?-messages of flowers or guns, or the inner voice of children for those up on Citadel Hill. Struggling under the eye of Jeira's overhead...