Have your say on Canada's Climate Change Strategy

Back at the beginning of September, the Alberta Government was looking for input toward the Paris Climate talks... and now the Federal Government is asking what Canadians think should be done to mitigate the effects of climate change which clearly is already happening.

With wildfires raging up near Fort McMurray, there's never a better time than the present to come up with a plan to handle climate change, which causes the disruption in our weather patterns that led to our warm, dry Alberta winter that fuelled the disaster up north. 88,000 people are still waiting to hear when and if they can return home, and the fires are still burning, adding to carbon emissions and causing further weather instability.

So if you have any ideas about how we can cut our fossil fuel emissions, change our lifestyles for the better and reduce climate change, now is the time to share them with the powers that be. Try thinking outside your usual boxes -- as Einstein liked to say, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

Click here to offer your ideas on our National Climate Change Strategy. Go for it!

Simple solutions

Since I put honey in my hair yesterday, I've been mind-moodling (as opposed to pen- or type-moodling) about how great it is when we can be self-reliant and come up with simple answers rather than over-complicated, chemically-laden, or super-processed commercial solutions. That goes for just about anything.

As often happens, when I was emptying my inbox this morning, I found this wonderful little video that dovetails nicely with my mind-moodlings on self-reliance. It contains a very simple solution to a huge health problem in the developing world.

Not 30 minutes after posting this moodling initally, the universe aligned again, and I reviewed another email from a friend. It carried another great simple idea, this time to deal with global hunger.

If people can put their heads together and come up with things like these to save lives, it gives me hope that we will also find solutions to other important planetary issues... But we have to keep in mind what Mother Teresa and the Buster Brothers say: "If you can't feed a hundred people, feed one." If we can't solve an entire massive problem, perhaps we can solve one part of it, and maybe that will inspire someone else to solve another piece of it, and so on. You just never know how your actions might make things better, and just a little better is still better...