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It's not that easy, being green ...
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Camping Magazine
- Article date:
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November 1, 2007
- Author:
- Stryker, Rick
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Almost forty years ago (!), a certain celebrity frog first sang a melancholy tune bemoaning being overlooked because he shared his color with so many other things. His contribution to the balance of life seemed lost. In a wash of introspection, he seemed to feel very small and insignificant. In a world of more than 6 1/2 billion people, it's easy to wonder whether we or our individual actions or contributions matter at all. At the same time, the green-and-white "Think Globally, Act Locally" bumper stickers abound. Can both perspectives be right? Can both be right for me and for my organization? The ideas seem to be at opposite ends of a spectrum almost too broad to comprehend. ...