Natural Phenomenon: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

This is an interesting article on a beautiful application of environmental architecture. Renzo Piano's ideas and actions inspire me.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/05/renzo200805?currentPage=1

Soaring continued

As I was saying, the day of the glider ride was the highlight of our holiday. If we hadn't have been staying at the Super 8 Motel right in front of the airport where the Invermere Soaring Centre resides, it would never have even occured to me do something like this.
It also helped when the wife of one of pilots started talking to us in the motel parking lot while we were watching the planes take off. I was mesmerized, I was amazed, I was intrigued and very curious. She mentioned that her husband visits Invermere every year from Toronto for "the best gliding in the country". I can't remember how many years they've been there, I think it's more than 10. How could I ignore the crystal clear messages in front of me?

1. Motel next door to the airport.
2. Woman telling me have to go, I'd be crazy not to.
3. $140 burning a hole in my pocket
4. Nothing else to do.

Kevin and I drove over to the airport (I was too scared to hop the barbed-wire fence and run across the steaming runway) and asked a few questions and next thing I new I was booked for the next afternoon at 2:30. The rest is history, as they say.

Ocean life makes waves.

This amazing photo was taken by my good friend C.J. Chairizia. I'm going to get her permission to post this and more beautiful underwater photos on my blog.

In this world, we are all butterflies and we need to be mindful of what can happen when we flap our wings. – David Suzuki

I'm fascinated by the increased awareness about the environment, specifically Global Warming. David Suzuki always has something new to report in this realm. Click on the title to find out more about his latest discovery.

David Suzuki has been trying to tell us about Global Warming for decades. And since Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, both the book and the film, have been released to the public I've noticed an increase in the reporting of GW in the mainstream media, I saw an article in GIANT magazine of all places. This is great news for us and our planet! I strongly believe the little things each of us do everyday makes a difference and the more people who know, the more people there will be taking action and the bigger the positive effect we'll have on our large and delicate globe. That's my butterfly effect.

I have yet to see or read the Inconvenient Truth but I hear it's definitely worth watching so as soon as I get over this damn flu I'm going to go and see it. It's still playing in one theatre here in Vancouver. The DVD will be released at the end of November but don't wait! Go now and see it!