The green [thumb] issue

Did you know that Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels from the roof of the White House that Jimmy Carter had installed?

No? Neither did I...but, politics aside, this is one delicious nugget from a compelling piece that Michael Pollan wrote on why we should bother to GO GREEN.  Pollan's piece is pretty spicy and he presents a pretty tasteful case...but his suggestion that we all start our own produce gardens is a bit more than I can swallow [no pun intended]...Why? I kill succulents.  As romantic as the notion of subsisting on food I grew myself is, it would yield dire consequences, consequences more dire than those stemming from my most likely carbon heavy consumption of purchased [mostly local] organic produce. Dire consequences such as...like, well, I probably wouldn't eat.  Why? Because my garden would probably have a very low yield: a low yield, that is, if ANYTHING grew at all....No, I'm not being fatalistic or defeatist, I'm being realistic.  That said, there is a part of me that finds the challenge appealing...So I haven't ruled out the possibility of gardening. Never say never! For the time being, though, I think what Al Gore urges people to do at the end of 'An Inconvenient Truth' is more feasible... Change your light bulbs.  That, that, I think we can all do...