Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.