I have heard about the pine beetle infestation in BC a lot. But now I will see it with my own eyes. Hopefully I can take some pictures.
Other than that I will yoga it up with Geeta Iyengar at the Iyengar Yoga Assocation's AGM.
Enjoy your week!
A personal weblog by Anna W. Includes entries about my life as an alien in Canada. Thoughts. People. Pictures. Links. Mostly in English - sometimes in German.
Here is some GREEN! Highly appreciated after a winter in artic Calgary.
Michi-gonians are a little different drivers though: less aggressive than Austrians, but they like their traffic lights (see above) and they thought of a unique way of turning left. Instead of turning left at the intersection of choice, you
The garbage patch was discovered by rich sailor Mr. Moore, when he was looking for a short cut on his yacht back to LA. When he ended up being in the plastic soup for a week, he realized that this is crazy and turned into an environmental activist. I guess, even the nicest yacht is not so great anymore, if the places to discover are trashed. Mr Moore warns that unless consumers cut back on their use of disposable plastics, the plastic stew would double in size over the next decade.
What's next? Should we lie back and watch the clouds go by and keep on trashing our environment?
I think, we urgently need a more environmentally-benign replacement for plastic.
Maybe biopolymers are a solution, like these biodegradable plastic baskets, which are claimed to degrade after 18 weeks in the ground?
In the meantime, now more than ever, whenever I can choose between plastic fork or a metal fork, I will most definitely choose the metal one.