Convocation Hall was sold out, with a line up stretching for at least 100 meters, all 1500 eagerly awaited to listen to a famous environment activist, David Suzuki.

What can I say, Suzuki is an amazing speaker, world class. I haven’t seen anyone speak so well since when George Galloway packed Convocation Hall.

“If we can afford to spend almost a trillion dollars on a stupid war, we can afford to reduce our carbon emissions.”

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While, I should note that time was running short, but whats next? What can you or I actually do?

Check out this link: http://www.davidsuzuki.org

As for the governments in North America: The US Democrats, Canada’s Liberals & NDP all endorse capping and trading emissions for the manufacturing sector and some endorse carbon taxes. If a combination of those governments are elected and they keep their promises, expect a combination of both cap & trade in some areas and carbon taxes in others where that works better. The US Republicans & Canada’s Conservatives don’t really have a plan (some of them still don’t believe in Global Warming). If those governments are elected, we’ll have to hope for a private solution.

I plan to take action my self in a number of areas, post your list if you are doing something to reduce your emissions:

1. Stay tunned for offsetyourpollution.com

2. Change light bulbs & practice energy conservation.

3. I have to drive to my University, otherwise it will take me 3 hours to get to school. I currently drive a manual Civic 06, the most efficient fuel vehicle on the market (could not afford a hybrid yet):

Fuel Economy (hwy): 5.7 L/100 km (thats 50 mpg).

Keep in mind the hybrid is 4.3 L/100 km so thats pretty damn good for a non-hybrid. In real life conditions, I’ve driven about 700 km on a 50L tank which involved city/highway.

Btw, the Conservatives want to make 35 mpg the standard by 2020 for cars, thats way too low of a standard considering 50 mpg is already a cheap & practical reality now.

4. I will be proposing a plan for my condominium to provide monetary incentives to compensate everyone in my building to change their light bulbs and paying for it through the savings in the building’s electricity bill without increasing the tenants fee. Stay tuned for more details on how that goes.

5. Recycle, recycle, recycle.

6. Host my internet activity with services that offset their emissions, such as hostpapa.ca

7. Help those candidates that are running for parliament that will take action, rather then talk (I haven’t found very many yet)

8. Lobby for a recycling program in the Student Centre of our University.

9. Lobbied successfully for a UPass at UTM, free Mississauga Transit for students .