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An Inconvenient Truth on KCBS

Betsy about An Inconvenient Truth on KCBS.
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It’s Painful Being Green

Kermit was wrong, it’s not easy to be green. Thanks to the waste prevention gene I seem to have been born with, daily life in the world’s most wasteful nation has been a constant assault on my senses. I’m pretty sure I’ve had this affliction since birth, that somehow my DNA contained an extra “conservation” chromosome. I know I’m not the only one with this chronic condition but it is all too rare, and unfortunately not infectious. That’s part of the reason our planet is in critical condition.

UNWED left me unglued

The first-ever-in-the-U.S. United Nations World Environment Day was a true green letter event, held appropriately in the city voted the greenest in the land.
There were many highlights: Accords were signed by more than 100 cities pledging to take three positive environmental steps per year and two dozen Mayors added their names to a Kyoto-like agreement drafted by  Seattle’s Mayor Greg Nickels after the three driest winters in the rainiest city’s history.