OMG!! Was that a scary show tonight! I told someone at a party I went to after listening to it in my car, and they said why were you listening if it was so scary. And I said because it does no good to stick your head in the sand about these tremendously important issues. Tomorrow I am calling my state representatives, the governors office, my congressman and Eric Garcetti, President of the Los Angeles City Council. I have asked that the City instigate a rebate for each square foot/yard of sod pulled up to incentivize people to get rid of one of the greatest wastes of water in each household. I contacted Councilman Garcetti's office several months ago after seeing a documentary called "Gimme Green" about lawns and showing in, I think Palm Springs or Las Vegas, where such an incentive was put in place. I have already pulled up my front lawn and am planting native plants, and I haven't watered the back yard since the beginning of the year. I recycle my dish and bath water on my plants, and only flush the toilet when necessary.

In addition, earlier this year I had t-shirts made with the logo "Got Water?" (see attached photo, go to www.gotoyouyoga.com for more info) made in North Carolina of organic cotton with water based ink. The logo of Heal the Bay, in Santa Monica, is on the back. I go to festivals and farmers markets where I have lots of material to pass out to educate people even if they don't buy a shirt. I have been showing the low levels of Lakes Powell and Mead, but now I will also talk about of the levies in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, especially for people in Southern California who don't understand the importance of the Delta to our well-being.

My membership to KPCC has lapsed, (aren't we all more strapped for cash these days) but I will send in a check with a t-shirt for Rachel Miro. This was a hugely important show, frightening as it was.

Lastly, I have Stage IV Melanoma and count each day as a blessing. But I also have a 17 year-old son. I am as worried about climate change for his generation as I am worried about the implementation of a draft.

P.S. I have been driving a Honda Civic Hybrid for 6 years, and put solar panels on my roof after seeing "An Incovenient Truth" two years ago.

1) Don't drive everywhere. A dash to the store for some milk can easily be accomplished with a bicycle and a bicycle basket. 20% of all car trips are 1 mile or less, and 40% of all car trips are 2 miles or less.
2) I turn off every single light in the house by 10. More work can be done early in the morning, when there's actually sunlight.

We will be affected: the cry of the high school and college students of today.

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Environmental Pollution and Public Health (EPPH 2009),
Special Track within iCBBE2009
Call for Papers
http://www.icbbe.org/epph
Beijing, China, June 11-13, 2009
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This special track EPPH is part of the third international conference
on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE2009). EPPH2009
focuses on the relationship between environmental pollutions and human
health problems. The conference is sponsored by IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Beijing Institute of Technology
and Wuhan University, The conference proceedings will be published by
IEEE, all the papers accepted will be included in the IEEE Xplore and
indexed by EI. For more information please contact: epph@icbbe.org