Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a significant kick in the rump to get my act together and commit to being part of the solution. My wife and I sold the car, switched to shopping at farmers markets, bought and started using a sun oven (in the summer), expanded the garden, composted everything we could get away with, committed to working toward zero waste in our home and started trying to dialogue with those who haven't heard the news.

I'm a member of Voters Taking Action on Climate Change (VTACC), a local citizens group lobbying the BC government to take action on climate change. The organization has successfully lobbied to stop the coal plants and is now campaigning for a carbon tax.

Sorry folks. Bad news on the Horizon. Circumstance may be about to shave a couple of billion people off of the global population figures. When considering change, we have to factor in several scenarios. We have to prepare for "the big 3" - the potential US dollar collapse, peak oil and climate change; what activists and academics call "The Perfect Economic Storm."