eorsncecen | Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1992 —- North Shore News —- 25 Guide advocates hands-on activism resource for Lower Mainland In Our Backyard an invaluable environmental Sn Our Backyard. Peggy Trendell-Whittaker. Whitecap Books. $8.95. issue."” Nobody is against the environment, not even T= ENVIRONMENT is what you call a “motherhood the people who refer to the rotten-egg reek of an upwind pulp mill as ‘‘the smell of money.” Nobedy ever stands up and says, “Hey, I'm for smog, polluted water, deforestation, and toxic waste. | want to live on a poisoned landfill downwind from a nuclear reactor.” Unfortunately, after making some impassi speech about the whales or the rainforest or other Time magazine cover issues at a party, most of us hung-over hypocrites will like as not scrape the entire detritus of the shindig, battles, butts and leftovers, into a couple of big black piastic bags and leave it to the garbagemen and God to sort out, preferably not “‘in our back yard.”” After reading Peggy Trendell- Whittaker’s in Our Backyard, you will never again light-heartedly toss your trash into the tempting John Moore BOOK REVIEW maw of the Magic Dumpster to be “taken away’ to the Never- Neverlandfilt. You will possess the guilty knowledge of where the disgusting debris of your disposable lifestyle really goes. You will also be able to infer how much of your municipal tax-buck is burned or buried as a direct result of buying into a throw-away civilization. Readers familiar with Ms. Trendell-Whittaker’s “‘Ecoinfo’’ column in the North Shore News will immediately recognize her practical, hands-on ‘‘get off your butt’ brand of environmental ac- tivism. We're not talking tree-spiking or handcuffing yourself to the an- chor-chains of visiting American auclear warships; this is a concise compendium of the simple, everyday things you can do every day that will improve not only your own quality of life, but that of your children and grandchildren. “Thinking globally’ is easy; “acting locally’’ means you ac- tually have to do something more than knock a buck off the price of a case of beer by dragging in a dozen empties to your local LDB outlet. It means separating your glass and tins; it means, dare ! say it? “composting.” As Ms. Trendell-Whittaker points WV acior studying at prestigious schoo! PETER GAITENS spent his first week leaming the ropes of acting at the same school that turned out Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Peggy Asherett and Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave, thank; in targe part to an alumna of the London-based Central School of Speech and Drama. Oscar-nominated actor Kate Nelligan returmred to the stage Sept. 27 to star in A.R. Gurney’s play Love Leifers as a benefit for COMPLETE LINE OF SUPERIOR QUALITY SERVICES! the Sutherland Secondary grad. Mother joanne Gaitens said her son began classes Oct. 19. Gaitens, 20, was accepted into the school this summer but had to come up with $12,000 in tuition fees. He contacted Nelligan after discovering that she attended the Central School of Speech and Drama with the help of a Cana- dian philanthropist. Gaiten’s TV credits include ap- pearances on 27 jump Street, Neon Rider, and Danger Bay. Prior to that he had been active in the West Vancouver Theatre Schoo} and North Shore Theatre West before joining Deep Cove’s First Impressions Theatre. His tuition fees at the Central School of Speech and Drama will cost $12,000 annually with an ad- ditional $10,000 in living ex- penses. out, our fortunate, deceptively green Lower Mainland is built on an illusion. We're shipping our trash to Cache Creek (they don’t like it, but they need the money, much as Third World countries need the money and thus swallow tonnes of totally toxic waste no sane nation would touch with asbestos gloves), and we're kidding ourselves that we can indefinitely keep paying off other people to clean up “our awa back yard.” This is an invaluable resource book for Lower Mainland residents, a keystone for your own Choose any 4 dishes on our LUNCK or DINNER menu and receive a FREE CRAB! 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