Michael Prager

Via The Green Group, which I learned about via either Facebook or LinkedIn, comes a report on the future of green, as divined by Amsterdam-based trendwatching.com, which bills itself as "an independent and opinionated trend firm [that relies] on our network of 8,000+ spotters in more than 70 countries worldwide." Its focus for May is on the green.

Georgie isn't yet tired — or, at least, she's not been displaying her fatigue — about my incessant pointing toward all the Priuses on the road. Yes, it has been suggested to me that there aren't that many, but that I'm just sensitized to them because we bought one.

Could be; I don't think so. At most, I think both could be true, that there are a lot of Priuses on the road, and that I'm particularly aware of it.

I wrote previously about 350.org, a planned offensive in a worldwide effort to bring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere back to 350 parts per million, which is considered the safe maximum to foster a stable environment.

You're up on your climate math if you know that the world is already at 385 ppm, and is gaining about 2 ppm per year.

Many readers, I would think, are familiar with the 2002 thought-changing book, "Cradle to Cradle," by Virginia architect William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart, a founder of Germany's Green Party and an activist of wide influence. I have read most of it once — I had to return it to the library or risk punitive measures — and I'm just picking it up again, from the beginning, now that I've decided that this, clearly is a book to keep, not borrow.

Top and center of Page 1 today, the Boston Globe's Jenn Abelson writes about the people who have decided to sell their Rams and MDXs and Hummers and 4-Runners because they can no longer bear the $80 fill-ups that have resulted from gas-price increases.

Barack calls Hillary's "idea" (McCain said it first, she larded onto it) to get the oil companies to pay the 18-cent-a-gallon federal gas tax instead of motorists symbolizes a candidacy consisting of "phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems."

Link.

And: previously:

McCain is dead to me
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