Many thanks to the organizers of this conference. While some of the information s known by many of the participants, there were some important contacts made and insights offered (particularly from the Enmax CEO). My questions are: 1. What are the comparative economics between the green solutions presented by the Pembina Institute in its Jan 2009 paper on Greening the Alberta Grid and current plans to maintain coal fired generating plants? 2. What are the cumulative subsidies awarded to building current inventory of coal fired plants in Alberta?

For those who think that we have heard it all before, I don't agree. I appreciated and thought important that Dr. Mrazek acknowledged that CWF is doing good job of educating about climate change but not so well on sustainability so they are now working on it. I am interested in whether they are incorporated systems thinking and action learning. I also wonder if systems thinking and action learning are being taught in our school systems. I was surprised by Gwen Blue's point about having more opportunities to meet, talk and practice speaking out but as soon as I heard it I realized that it was right on. I would highly recommend the use of Conversation Cafe process. http://www.conversationcafe.org/Process%20and%20Agreements.htm I was interested in Richard Kool's information about the Ontario Bill of Rights and his mention that duties maybe should be included. It sounds to me that incorporating some things from the Ontario Bill of Rights and citizen duties are both worthy of serious consideration. I really appreciated Mishka Lysack's presentation and thought that he presented some great questions. I did wonder how he proposed to engage people in asking themselves and sharing that with others in their community. I also thought that his warning that making the personal changes will not be enough we require societal change including business and gov't. While I can empathize with his fears I definitely don't agree that the Transition Towns process will cause people to focus only on their own community. The sharing and spread of their knowledge and experience clearly shows they have a global consciousness. They also emphasize systems thinking. While I had heard a longer presentation by Gary Holden, CEO of Enmax, I enjoyed in hearing it again and am really glad to hear that his powerpoint slide will be on the web site for further study and reference as will all the other ppts. I also really appreciated the presentation by Dr. Lars Hallstrom. I thought that he was realistic and grounded.

AMAZING JOB TODAY!! Congratulations Greg and Alberta Acts! I was impressed with the great work being done by a wide range of people and organizations across the Province... and after working a night shift last night, I only started watching at 2:00 pm! There is a dizzying amount of stuff happening on the ground in this province. Which leads me to the limitation of today's event. There were SO many initiatives mentioned, and little means to have a back and forth question and answer discussion, or networking between individuals or groups who might be really excited about each other's work, and wanting to build common cause. Okay Greg, Bill, Andy, Frances, and many others... now we want you to put on another one!

This is my opinion of course. Politics always talks about compromise. Forget politics, the planet doesn't care about compromise as the CO2 increases and temperature increases. We need a Canadian Glasnost-perestroika like movement with the people if the CC issue is to move forward with people in Alberta. The question is, what can be done! Walter

How do we build political capacity and leadership to challenge the dominant gov't discourse which is against anything renewable?