Deeper Shade of Green

“…Individual actions are great, but look for individual actions that will influence others. There’s an old saying that living well is the best revenge. That may be true, but living well is certainly the best argument: when we design our personal lives in such way that we’re doing the right thing and having a hell of a good time, we act as one-person beacons to the idea that green can be bright, that worldchanging can be life-changing.

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Chilling message from wear-nothing activists to do-nothing politicians

Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland — An emergency provokes extreme responses: human beings in danger will abandon social niceties, etiquette, and the norms of acceptable behaviour to raise an alarm any way they can when lives are in danger. On August 18th, 2007, six hundred people shed their clothes on a glacier in the Swiss Alps to bodily cry out for help against a planetary emergency: global warming.

Without clothes, the human body is vulnerable, exposed, its life or death at the whim of the elements. Global warming is stripping away our glaciers and leaving our entire planet vulnerable to extreme weather, floods, sea-level rise, global decreases in carrying capacity and agricultural production, fresh water shortages, disease and mass human dislocations.

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Here’s a description of my experiences camping with the folks from the Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) folks at a First Nations Reserve “Sutikalh” over the long weekend (BC Holiday).

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I got a call today being offered a platinum MBNA card. Having had some time and being in a good mood, I decided to have a little fun and also make an important point (instead of hanging up). Read on.
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