Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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I am a first generation Canadian, born and raised on a Manitoba farm.
I did not take up farming as my livelihood; however I did learn that farm life can be extremely rewarding and also frustrating with its many challenges. I also learned to realize that water and nature (environment) were to be treated with the utmost respect and courtesy and used with a sense of dignity and gratitude.
I now live on a farm near Virden, in southwestern Manitoba and devote time to writing about nature, water and the environment.
I do this because it seems, to me, that we have become abusers of what we need most to help us survive.
Nature is literally screaming about the impact we are putting on her; yet we think wistfully of what we are doing and what has been
lost and dismiss it as the “price of progress”
I believe we have to start putting moral ethics back into our present day society and also start and rede- fine “progress.