As I strolled around the lake not far from my house on an afternoon, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the alarming shortage of water that plagues the Lower Mainland.   It made me ponder the significance of something we often take for granted – the availability of running water when we turn on the tap.  What if one day it just stops? How would we survive?   We continue to live our comfortable lives because – when we turn on the tap and we have running water… what if that water ran out? How would we survive? Water, sustains all forms of existence on our planet. Yet, despite its abundance covering…

Back in 2006 I watched, An Inconvenient Truth .   The movie helped me understand how our world is interconnected.  It resonated with me; but didn’t really fully grasp the meaning of the word ‘convenience’ in the context of climate change. Fast forward some 15 years later and as someone who has gotten slightly older and (don’t laugh, I’d like to believe) wiser, I recently saw the sequel to that movie – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.   I can now say I understand the significance of the word ‘convenience’.  If life was a cartoon, a light bulb that would have gone on above my head after I finished watching…