I'm getting ready to do some serious playing for the world, going to ride the bike over to Nathan Phillips Square on Sunday at noon to perform in support of the Kyoto accord.

Not that I am in FULL agreement with it. It just seems a little silly to trade carbon credits, I get it, it will work on some level, but I think the focus should be on making each and every community self-sustaining.

As consumers (and I hate that word - why do we have to be defined as consumers?? We are living, being, artist beings, and not just mindless purchasers of your plastic crap...and that has to stop, too! The only way we can stop China's incredible pollution engine is by not buying the plastic crap that they produce for us...no more happy meals, no more useless plastic baby toys, how about local hardwood...?)...

Anyway, before I was side-tracked by a rant, what I meant to say was, that as living, breathing artist manifestations of the eternal godhead, we have to eat food, and the best way to do that is A) Grow your own! B) Buy locally C) eat less meat. I don't eat red meat if I can help it, a little organic lamb from the organic market at Bloor and Dufferin (Dufferin Grove Park) on Thursdays, and some wild caught fish, but that's it. Slowly making my way to the beans and rice diet..very healthy and great for the environment. I have learned recently that it takes 10 pounds of food fish to make one pound of Salmon...a Haida Gwai resident mentioned that it was like feeding cattle to wolves to fatten them up for us to eat, as Salmon are big predators...AND it takes 10 lbs of feed to produce 1 lb of beef, so the sooner we kick the meat habit, or at least cut back, the better of we'll be.

I saw a documentary presented by spacing magazine last year called 'the end of suburbia' and the most meaningful quote that I pulled from it was that it will soon be the end of the 3000 mile Caesar Salad, in that oil costs will become prohibitive, roads will be poorly maintained and it won't be economical to truck lettuce from California or Florida, so start buying locally now to help build up the local infrastructure!

OK..Here's a run down of the Kyoto show.


12:00 mc

12:02 Deb kimmet - comedy

12:07 Elvira Kurt - comedy

12:12 mc

12:14 Ricard Underhill , the Kensington Horns, Samba Elegua

12:24 Dave Martin ˆ Kyoto overview

12:29 mc - bears

12:32 Minna/Tindall/Layton ˆ Liberal/Green/NDP

12:47 mc

12:49 Adam Warner ˆ music

12:59 Keith Stewart ˆ Discussion of environment in context of Kyoto

1:04 mc - bears

1:07 Brian MacMillan - music

1:17 Jose Etcheverry ˆ Energy Alternatives

1:22 mc

1:24 Madagascar Slim - music

1:34 John Bennett ˆ Getting industry to do its part ˆ the need to continue pressuring the govt.

1:39 mc - bears

1:42 Dawn Whitwell - comedy

1:47 Matt Barber ˆ music

1:57 mc

1:59 Labour speaker ˆ tba

2:04 Cameron Stiff ˆ Youth and the future of sustainability

2:09 mc

2:10 our special guest - music