Wild Weather Coast to Coast: What's to Blame? – by Joey

No matter where you live in Canada, chances are you have noticed the weather this winter. Coast to coast records are being broken. In the east unusually high temperatures have held back the regular snowfall. In the west record low temperatures have brought unusual amounts of snow. BC has been battered by storms that have brought record wind speed and rainfall causing mass destruction, like that seen in Vancouver's world famous Stanley Park.

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Water - by Rebekah

Water is the staple of all life on this planet – without it, we wouldn’t exist! With humankind’s fate so closely tied to this precious resource, one would EXPECT that water would be carefully guarded and preserved….but that’s not actually true! North Americans and Europeans use APPALLINGLY superfluous amounts of this crucial resource. While the demand for water is increasing, the amount of clean water is decreasing; it’s too often taken for granted. Changes must be made, or else the actions of the past will create the ghosts of the future!

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I hate waste - by Ula

In the run of a day the average Canadian generates an astounding amount of waste. This is a trend that has become common in the developed world. The earth is now at a point where the amount of human impact has started to adversely affect the environment in which we live. The need to reduce the pressure of human consumption is apparent but action behind this cause is slow moving. Our obsession with hygiene and convenience is causing an overflow at landfill sites. Over-packaged and poorly designed products are mass produced specifically to end up in land fills shortly after they are purchased. Canadians now, more than ever, are living in an age of disposal.

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Top Ten Things You Can Do for Sustainability

Our fantastic Youth Steering Committee (YSC) took a minute to put together their Top 10 lists of things you can do to help out everything from global warming to good food, healthy minds to healthy bodies. Feeling stumped by all the options out there? Then check out what some of our YSC has to say.

Submission from...2004-2005 Youth Steering Committee member Shannon Refvik.

About the Retrograde Motion Think Free 'Zine

"This is a student written, student published magazine, devoted to opinions that don’t get fair attention in the mainstream media. These articles represent the slightly obscurer, lurking-in-the-back-of-your-mind ideas that haunt the thoughts of most conscientious teenagers. As you may or may not have noticed, all the articles written in this issue are from the editors...teenagers!"

Want to hear youth voices on why to become a vegetarian, the issue of land mines and weapons of mass destruction, and what to do about having to much "stuff", then click here to check out the 'zine....