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[caption id="attachment_4361" align="alignright" width="238"] Waiting for the garbage truck, which may run on natural gas![/caption]

Neat piece of environmentalist propaganda; eye-catching, kind of ironic, and humorous -- intentionally, and otherwise. It argues for a sustainable, green, lifestyle, and, against a plastic, petroleum-based, disposable culture, yet, it's printed on a hydro-carbon-derived slab of plastic, and whomever bought it, from here, got tired of it, and chucked it in the garbage. Click on the images to enlarge.

This lawn sign just turned up, just off Cambie Street -- there's an election coming. But I'm confused. What kind of "climate action" do they want? The group giving away these free lawn signs, Kids for Climate Action (K4CA), also has the cash to buy transit advertising. In the run-up to our May 14 Provincial Election here in British Columbia, they say they want to make sure the issue is addressed by the political parties and candidates. K4CA is not running candidates, they are running a PR campaign. They have previously performed a number of flashmob actions going back to, at least, the end of 2010.  I really miss the point of this. To me this is busy work; people wanting to be seen to be doing something, when all we can really do is take it when it comes and learn to deal with the aftermath.