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Yes, that is the view out my kitchen window of the exhaust of the methane usage that our apartment buildings use to provide heat and hot water to the apartments.

There are people who are saying that what individuals do to reduce emissions is too insubstantial; that instead, vast government policies need to be put in place to reduce the national GHG emissions.

Others who will point to recycling, garbage reduction and clean air and water policy as the direction to go; but while these are nice, they do not do what it takes to reduce significantly GHG emissions.

My personal decisions to add my very small drop to the lowering of GHG emissions include:

• not driving or owning a car and walking or using public transit when needing to get anywhere
• reducing the amount of meat I eat and in particular, reducing beef consumption
• reducing the amount of flying I do and offsetting for the few trips I would do

There doesn't appear to be anything I can do to convert the apartment building within which I live to remove the methane boiler and replace it with some form of electric heating. As electricity here in Quebec is provided by non-emitting hydro-electric dams, a conversion to electric heating would further reduce the GHGs my existence puts out into the world.