A green Christmas

As the snow refused to fall and the weather found Floridian new ways of expressing Christmas in Nova Scotia, we were relegated to leaving the skis in the shed. While we weren't enjoying the winter wilderness of Kouchibiguac, we did watch An Inconvenient Truth. The saddest parts were watching a cartoon polar bear swimming desperately to reach a tiny icepan, and seeing Al Gore take a ride in a cherry-picker just to reach the top of the line on the graph showing the projected emissions of the near future. Strong visuals. At the same time, the media was replete with stories of climate change and George Monbiot got air time again and again on CBC. Interested in what he was saying, I read his book Heat, How to Save the Planet from Burning. Although his projections were equally gloomy, I did like the way he framed his discussion around solutions--too many to mention. I recommend reading it, or at least several chapters.