Greetings! I’m Geo Takach, associate professor at the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University and a professional writer, communication consultant, speaker and filmmaker. My site is under construction, so please consider wearing a hardhat until everything is up and running. Thank you.
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Environmental Leadership for Canada: Indigenous Lessons on Mixing Oil Pipelines and Water This report synthesizes scholarly research aimed at determining how Indigenous ways of knowing can help to encourage, identify and represent Canada…
This book explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for documentary film,…
Image politics take centre stage in a globalized, visual and increasingly environmentally-conscious society. Tar Wars takes a critical, inside look at the international PR war over Alberta’s stewardship of its bituminous (‘tar’/’oil’/‘bit’) sands,…
In recent years, several documentary films have attacked Alberta’s stewardship of the bituminous (‘bit’-) sands as threatening the health of people, their communities and the environment. This short film draws on conversations with…
Grounded in scholarly literature and accented by a postmodernist wink, this radio play explores social, economic, cultural and ultimately moral issues around living in a petroculture, and communicating about the environment in the…