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Article: LGBTA buildings join green movement
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- Windy City Times
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- August 6, 2008
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By now, you probably know that green is the new black. You've noticed that forgetting to tote canvas bags to the market became a gaffe about two seasons ago, a blush-worthy blunder when your local farmer who specializes in organic Asian greens chides, "Are you sure you need the plastic bag?"
You probably saw An Inconvenient Truth a long time ago, in the Stone Ages when even some of your moderate friends thought it was bollocks. Last week you heard Al Gore start the chant: "100 percent renewable within 10 years, 100 percent in 10...." You've seen a vast constituency in Africa ban plastic bags; then, Europe and Asia followed suit. Now, in the United States, the ordinances trickle in (with San ...