I saw the movie Shark Water on the weekend. EVEN IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF SHARKS, YOU SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE. It is not scary and you will see them in a different light. It was without doubt the most important and amazing movie I have seen in the last several years. It left me almost speechless. Even if you don’t care about or are afraid of sharks, everyone needs to know that they are becoming extinct and what that means to land dwellers is this:

Was at the panel discussion and showing of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" last night at Ridge cinema. One of the panelists (a PhD prof) stated that a kiwi costs 16X its weight in carbon emissions; a banana, some 2-1/2 times its weight. Several panelists and people from the audience drove home the point: Buy what is locally grown.

After the panel discussion, I asked one of the prof's about the 200-MIle Diet (Utne magazine article) and he opined that its quite possible that the 200-Mile Diet (the predecessor of Vancouver's 100 Mile Diet) is ENOUGH, BY ITSELF to save the planet from Climate Change -- although he stated that since its unlikely that entire populations would be able to adhere to the 200-Mile Diet, we should also conserve energy, etc etc etc.