March 17 An quick hop on Baxter aviation float plane to Vancouver. Right to downtown Vancouver, and o two block walk to the conference Centre. Alex Kenyon, the delightful voice on the telephone that had arranged my press access to the Globe event is even more spectacular in person. She took me through the accreditation process and gave me a quick briefing. I then rushed over to see what I could learn at the sustainable development conference. On the way there I noted that it was the end of lunch time and I got myself invited to a the lunch gathering. Every body was just finishing up as I sat down with two fellows from Columbia - both named Carlos. We shared a good chat in between me inhaling my lunch. The lunch was excellent, and then I ran off to the National Roundtable for sustainable Development Conference. Without going into too much detail, I commented on the presentation by the 3M company - Two observations - 1) zero human component 2) So the news is bad in your statistics, what are you going to do about it? To #1 the moderator identified that I had missed the morning session where it was explained that the corporations were not measuring some aspects of sustainability models including the ethics and health components. Frankly I was more accepting of his response then that I am to-day as I write this. After the presentation xxx of the Roundtable came over to discuss the issues, and we were later joined by the Moderator Stewart Smith. I made the mistake of reminding him of a previous meeting when he was head of the Science Council of Canada and I was interested in having some research done on Reichian theories to determine their value. He had no interest in Reich, and to-day I am not sure where he sits on developing human understanding. We had a short conversation and I asked him to review our site. He said he would.

I then went to a press conference for a students program called Skywatchers. I met a number of individuals involved in the program at every level from the Environment Canada level, to the teachers and to the students and to the parents of the students. I talked with them about the possibility of making this program a global program. I think the idea was too large, and certainly this was not the time to present it. Leaving my card and an invitation to explore at a future time. I talked with the Television interviewer and also the press secretary for Christine Stewart, the Minister of the Environment. I asked the Press Secretary if he was aware of the exempt quality of CBC from the provisions of sustainability in their policy. He said he was not - he would not let me ask the Minister publicly this question, but he promised he would look into it and report back to me. After this experience we went to a reception where I ran into Michael Horneck and made some other contacts, most notably a fellow from IBM who gave me a contact name at IBM.

I hung around the complex for a time enjoying the food and the ambiance of people meeting people. Called Cathy and grabbed a cab to visit with my Vancouver friend. We talked for a short while, but I was exhausted and had to be up extremely early for a media briefing and I did not want to be late for Maurice Strong’s presentation. I dreamed that night what I would say to him, and set up a number of strategies for getting his attention. Slept very little.