The famous quote “We all live downstream” seems to be attributed most often to Japanese-Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki, best-known as the host of the long-running CBC-TV newsmagazine The Nature of Things. It’s one of those sayings that seems like it ought to be obvious but isn’t. Once you really begin to think about it, it’s a sobering concept. Once you throw something away, there’s really no “away.” Sooner or later we all have to deal with the consequences of our wasteful and thoughtless ways of living on this Earth.