Growing up in Edmonton, AB, Canada there have always been a few things that come with absolute certainty: 1. Discussions will either involve cattle, oil, Oilers, or weather or any combination of the aforementioned. 2. Winters will be long and harsh; This means that at least 5-6 months out of every year will be filled with cold and snow.

This year we’re definitely getting our 6 months worth and the truth is, I don’t always remember getting exactly 6 months of winter. Usually we see lots of cold and snow but the trend I remember included a slow cool down as winter eventually crept in and then a gradual warming trend as spring emerged.

There’s not a lot of creeping or emerging going on anymore as we bounce from one extreme to the other then back again during any season. It seems that temperature and weather trends are much more erratic then they’ve ever been before and I’m no scientist but I really don’t think it’s necessary for me to be to quantitatively comment that things are a little f*$#ed up. (Side note: I store all physical data and measurements in my sub conscious day to day with absolute precision and then my gut translates this information and provides me with flawless, indisputable facts. Everybody does that right?)

Anyways, today is Edmonton’s scheduled celebration of Earth Day. There’s a nice park in our cities river valley called Hawrelak Park where the festivities are to be held on the south side (though it really feels a lot more like the far north).

My wife and I have intended to take in the celebration of earth for a few weeks now. The weather had warmed up and most all the snow here had melted and what could be better than a spring festival celebrating earth and a nice walk in the park?

[April 20, 2008]

Could anybody lend us some snow shoes or cross country skies? Maybe some giant mass consuming electrical heaters or perhaps a fossil fuel burning generator to keep the attendees warm as they spend the day outside sharing concepts to lessen the load on Mother Earth?

The truth is, this festival should have been warmed by our Mother herself but she’s quite sick and I fear there just hasn’t been enough effort to love her and nurture her back to health.

Instead of the doom and gloom approach with the pessimists or ‘the ignorance’ and allowing our Mother to get worse, I propose to share in some some optimism… I know there’s many ways to phrase ‘the question’ but how about we phrase it this way: “What are we gonna do about it?” (our sick Mother that is).

The mentality should really be - what’s done is done because there’s no going back (so stop pointing fingers). What are we gonna to do now?

Please share if you have something to say. Maybe some of you could post some links or some ideas or thoughts on the subject. Whatever you want really. The more people talk about solutions the more people think about solutions and for those of you like me who believe “thoughts become things"… well, let’s think about it. It’s the very least we could do.

Enough said for me at the moment. I’m gonna go throw on some snow pants and play in the snow.

Logan

PS Next stop: Organic food.

Gonna need some help with this one people… Go to --> MTV for details!!