Annapolis Capital Punishment

Thanks to local reporter Pamela Wood whose recent piece Our Bay: Resolving to achieve a cleaner bay gave real and serious recommendations to lower our personal pollution levels. Instead of the usual, "band-aid" approaches and weeny, little things such as not running the tap when brushing our teeth, this serious list never pretends that it's easy to reduce the pollutant effects of our wasteful and luxuriant lifestyles.

Her list begins with getting involved, educated, and bending a politician's ear and goes to eat locally, eat organically and even share the Bay with a child. These are not window-dressing things to lull us into believing that being green is merely an easy set of lifestyle or consumer choices. Some misguided organizations and publications, for example, What's Up Annapolis, still tell us such things while promoting an unsustainable and wasteful lifestyle in a glossy magazine glorifying conspicuous consumption made possible through ads for hard-scaping (basically paving the world...), plastic surgery, fancy cars, and opulent garage (yes garage) and kitchen remodeling.

I especially like number 40 that says, "Speak your mind. Start a blog, write a letter to the editor, speak up at a community meeting, testify at a government hearing."

Thanks to Pamela Wood and her piece Cleaner Bay . Please read it and take action!

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