My passion for the planet has always been an itch without nice long fingernails to scratch it. It would go up and down on my priority list, constantly competing with work, bills, keeping a clean home and other meaningless fragments of the day-to-day burn.

THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS
Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C.
Saturday, November 14 - Sunday, November 15, 2009
9:00am – 5:pm daily

Jackie Larkin and Maggie Ziegler

(read online version: http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2008/11/20/news/news02.txt)

Stephanie Tait and Matt Hill are taking their quest for environmental awareness one step at a time on the Run for One Planet tour.

Tait and Hill, environmental enthusiasts from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, are bringing their journey to Washington and Chocowinity next week.

This is the legacy created for our kids so far...

a 3.5 tonnes garbage island floating around in the Pacific

65 billion tons of waste/per year - just Canada alone

50% of Canadian waste is packaging

US reports 4 billion tons of toxic chemicals releases into environment just in 2005