The other day I was talking to a relative of mine about The City of Ember and this relative was lamenting the environmental state of the planet. She tells me, “Well, that’s why I bought my Prius. I had to do something to help our planet.” Oi. I could come up with a dozen things that she could do to help the planet, but the best she could come up with is buying a car. Don’t get me wrong – I’m glad she bought the Prius. Clearly, buying a Prius is better than buying a Hummer, for instance, or any of the typical oversize, gas-guzzling SUVs that my suburban neighbors think they somehow need. But the whole idea that that is the only something she could come up with to help the environment was depressing.

So today I read an article in one of my favorite blogs, The True Face of Birth, entitled Is Brown the New Green? Good timing. I’m particularly loving the link she provides to this blog. If we can all aspire to being Brown, than maybe our world just might survive.

In honor of the brown, a quote from George Costanza:

So, anyway, if you think about it, manure is not really that bad a word. I mean, it’s ‘newer’, which is good, and a ‘ma’ in front of it, which is also good. Ma-newer.