Climate Change conference

I wasn't sure what to write before the conference so I decided to wait so that I could write only one post instead of two. The keynote speaker was interesting and I really enjoyed that he had met Rick Mercer. His speech was informative but I thought like with all the sessions that it was a little too short. My first session was with Marc Lee I didn't like that he was from the same company as Seth Klein, it felt like only one side of the argument, when a bunch of different agencies present their side it is easier to believe. After that we went to system change not climate change with Harjap Grewal, I really liked him, he made his workshop interesting and informative. We had time to have a discussion and he actually taught me things I hadn't previously known. Lastly I went to the Mining workshop, it was interesting and really sad but we watched a half hour long movie that was all in Spanish and it was hard to read the subtitles because they went by really fast. Overall the speakers were good but I felt like they didn't have enough time to do everything that they wanted to do. I think that I would really have liked to meet Ben West the Tankers and Pipelines speaker because he does film and poetry two things that I also enjoy. It would also have been nice to go to the Fossil Fuel Extraction in BC workshop because I had no clue what fracking was and I had to look it up, but even that did not really clear it up for me. I would have liked to have heard what she said.I found the lunch strange but when I spoke the my mother she said that raisins in rice was something she grew up with. After lunch we took a tour of the garden which was amazing, they are so inspirational at windomere and I would really love to try some of the things that they do there, like the compost bins in the hallways and the aquaponics system. After the conference I was talking about it for days with my parents, eventually it got on their nerves but I would really like to try the worm compost though my mom would never let it tin the house. On a side note I went to the Library recently and found two books, one was called Urban Agriculture and the other one was a book about bee's that David Suzuki put on his book club list. Of course I had to take them out, even though I haven't had the time yet to read them.