Case Studies

What a great set of case study presentations we received on both days.  It's so funny how despondent one can feel at the state of the world, and how easy it is to imagine that no one cares or is even trying to create a better planet for future generations or that when people do try, they fail miserably.

And then all of a sudden you hear about all these communities that have attempted to oppose giant corporations that are getting with outrageous logging practices (as on Saltspring Island) or that have taken into account the actual carrying capacity of their surrounding environment (as on Okotoks) or who are attempting to make high density living comfortable and ecnomical (as in community housing) and you go: "Why isn't everyone doing this?"

Like, how come I'd never heard of Okotoks before?  and if all the surrounding communities are worried about getting the remainder of Calgary's sprawl dumped on them, why don't they adopt identical mandates?

Maybe it comes down to what my girlfriend's sister was thinking about doing which is starting a good news news paper.  Maybe we need some form of popular media out there that is telling people about all the great things that are going on in this world.  I guess people say that bad news sells more and maybe thats the problem with private media, they don't care about trying to foster the positive potential in people at all but rather selling more newspapers and commercials.  Maybe there should be a law passed that required all news programs present at least 75% good news.  What would be so bad about that?