Green Party #1 search - Google Canada's Zeitgeist 2008 page

Zeitgeist proof that the Green Party of Canada has broken into the Canadian political consciousness and is top of mind! For Google Canada's Zeitgeist 2008 page, see: "Canada Zeitgeist" at http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/... (scroll down to Canada>Canada Zeitgeist)
Their Zeitgeist is one measure of relevance online. It is, as is the net as a whole, skewed toward younger Canadians and picks up on trends, curiosity and novelty as much as knowledge but our first place showing is good news for Greens. Good news and a call to action: are green searches finding the whole-food diet they need to truly sustain their political health and vitality? Are green curious learning that their vote is empowering, an important part of their social life and in fact a responsibility necessary for their own well-being? Are green surfers returning, satisfied with their first visit, in anticipation of new and exciting politically motivating and nurturing content? Most importantly are we using our opportunity to win votes? I was moved last October to move beyond voting Green to activism in large part because I perceived a lack of Green web presence so I have as my starting point a critical bias that we are not doing enough. We are cupping our hands to catch the buckets trickling through the broken dam: we need a plan to collect and store this valuable (metaphoric) water. A storm has gathered, a dam is broken, old rivers are redrawing their courses: we are living through a paradigm shift in Canadian politics. Elizabeth and others have energized voters in a few ridings, there are many more in which the Green Party is drawing 8-12% of the electorate with very little media penetration of Green policy. We have an historic opportunity to represent Canadians in coalition governments to come now that psychological barriers to thinking coalitions in Canada have been broken through. "Carpe diem" (seize the day!) Greens.