"Grey, my friend, is all theory . . ."

In high school, my friend Lisa and I founded an environmental club that we called The Green Society. We started a recycling program, had street clean-up days, planted trees, etc. It was quite a popular club, so we felt good about spreading the gospel.

I was also an editor of the school paper, so I had a regular column: a platform from which to preach and/or spew.

In 1991--my senior year--I was feeling some angst about the fact that Earth Day, which had celebrated its 20th anniversary the previous year, was being ignored.

Here is the column I wrote (Everyone who wrote columns for the paper got an awesome caricature by classmate Dan):

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Some points of note:

• As you can see, my tree-hugging, left-wing, baby seal-loving, bleeding-heart hippie commie ways started long, long ago.
  
• I thought I was very clever with my use of hyberbole.
• In the 16 years since this was published, I have come around a bit. In fact, I am now very happy that being "green" is trendy once again.
• At the time, I was very proud of my "Guess? consciences" line.
• (What a tool.)
  
• That is a sweet haircut I was sporting.

And I do feel a little special because I just did a quick internet search and discovered that the Green Society at Marion High School is still going strong 17 years later. Woohoo!

Happy Earth Day!