Memorial United Methodist Church

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my day."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't do the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right.

By Shepherd Bliss, published by Portside - March 23, 2012

From New York to St. Louis to Los Angeles, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) buzzes
with the awakening of spring activities throughout the United States. One of
its many pending actions is to join forces with the environmental movement
to launch Earth Month on March 24.

Disrupt Dirty Power will support direct actions around the U.S. and beyond
to combine environmental justice and economic justice. These actions,
according to the website www.disruptdirtypower.org, seek to "evict Wall
Street polluters," focusing on "dirty banks, big oil, big coal, fracking,
uranium." It claims that "the climate can't wait and neither can we."
Initiated by an OWS affinity group called 99forEarth, the effort has been
joined by environmental groups.