why this?

As I said in my "me" section, I am from Kamloops BC. About a 3 hour drive away from Vancouver. I've been to Vancouver countless times in my life and I love the city. It's absolutely beautiful, and there's no place like home.

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics are just 2 days away now, and I am extremely proud to be hosting the games in my home province and to showcase Beautiful British Columbia. I've never really watched the Olympics in previous years, but I sure will be every second I can starting in 2 days.

Also being from Kamloops, I learnt how to ski when I was very young and loved going to Sun Peaks every weekend with my dad. Skiing was the only "ok" part of the winter for me... otherwise I hated it. My whole life I've gotten use to the fact that I have to live in (what I felt like was) the coldest country in the world. But now, within the last couple years I have definitely noticed the dramatic change in climate during the winter months. For example - I live in Canada, it's February, and last week I saw someone rollerblading down the street in shorts and a t-shirt, and another person for a walk wearing flip flops... ?? Who would've thought, eh? I don't really even remember when the last time it snowed was.

This is why I've started thinking more and more about ideas around global warming, the environment, and being "green". I've actually started caring about how I can be more green in my life.

These are the reasons for me choosing this as my blog topic. Vancouver 2010 - was it just a dream to be green? Or has VANOC actually effectively built sustainability into the games? This is what I want to find out...