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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Jen[/i] [br]Can the world smartly shop its way to sustainability? That's what former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach says in arguing that blue is the hip new green. He thinks folks are sick of "green" and so appropriated the European-style "blue," which has fewer grow-your-own-granola connotations. Every product you buy should be a gateway to a personal sustainability practice, he wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle. "The first step is developing your own personal practices. The second step is asking the stores where you shop to start carrying products that support your practice. And the third step is sharing your practice with your friends. It all starts with you." Read more about Werbach's blue mood here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/09/EDJ7102JMK.DTL In other color spectrum news, the Sierra Club recently partnered with the United Steelworkers and the Natural Resources Defense Council to form the Blue-Green Alliance, a move meant to stimulate environmentally friendly jobs: http://www.bluegreenalliance.org/site/c.enKIITNpEiG/b.3227091/k.E4AB/Blue_Green_Alliance.htm Jen [green]Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9[/green] The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.