There are plans for massive expansion of fish farms, there has been little notice of these pending changes, and no public consultation. Go to http://www.georgiastrait.org/ and click on Hot Topics Fish Farm Expansion, or go directly to : http://www.georgiastrait.org/?q=node/801

There you can click to sign a petition to the Premier and ministers, and/or send a fax.

on january 11, libby davies, MP for vancouver east, will hold a breakfast with food grown only within 100 miles of vancouver. (time, location - go here)

my involvement with the environmental movement has been spotty. but i've done a little bit (including working for greenpeace for a few years, and writing a column about environmental issues for a small independent newspaper years ago). on the other hand, it's been, what, over 10 years ago that i decided i wanted to eat only organically grown meat, coming from animals who had a relatively good existence before giving up their life for me - and i still haven't done that. so - yeah, spotty.

What if we adopted an electoral system which represented the voting public more acurately, people and industry were taxed according to how wasteful they were (and rewarded for being resourceful), climate change/global warming was the primary concern of political and business leaders, a more accurate measure of wealth (instead of the GDP) was implimented, regulation was put in place to curb our GHG emmissions and addiction to fossil fuels with the use of more renewables, wholistic approaches to preventative health care saved lives as well as money, small, local business and innovation was encouraged instead of big, global corporations, poverty was made history, external policy focussed on peace, internal policy embraced diversity and the next generation was deemed as imoportant or more important than the present one?...Guess what? All these issues make up green politics.