Joie with her "Save the Polar Bears" flyer & her friend Emily with their new style mantra

GREEN IS THE NEW PINK

- Dinna Huneryager, Contributing Writer

My daughter, Joie, is nine years old, in the fourth grade, and has suddenly gone very GREEN on me. She is my middle child (only girl sandwiched between two very headstrong boys) and is very carefree and almost oblivious to many of the things going on outside of her own girly world. Yet ever since she joined the Environmental Club at her grade school, she is now quite aware of another color besides pink. Everything is about GREEN now. She is one of 60 Environmental Club members at a school of 643 Kinder-6th grade students. She comes home after their monthly meetings ready to change the world. The Club's motto to “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” is now Joie's motto.

Before (photo courtsey NRDC) After

MY TUSH WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

- Suzy Shuster, Contributing Writer

It all started eleven months ago at my very first meeting of the Natural Resources Defense Council Executive Council. I was a new member, coming in as virtual earth loving newbie, wide-eyed and excited at the prospect of learning new ways to conserve the planet’s resources and help put a brake on global warming. Who knew I was just as ugly of an offender as all of those who turned a blind, disconnected eye to the crisis that is climate change!?

YOU'LL NEVER DRIVE THAT SUV IN THIS TOWN AGAIN!

- Jackie Marcus, Contributing Writer