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From the Toronto Star, by Trish Crawford

Contrary to popular belief, environmentalists know how to take a joke.

In his essay “Welcoming Homer the Tree-hugger,” environmentalist George Meyer, a writer for The Simpsons, writes, “If you are not currently choking a panda, welcome aboard!”

Meyer is trying to expand the green movement with a personal appeal. “Are you a hypocrite? Because I certainly am,” he says. “I’m an animal lover who wears leather shoes; a vegetarian who can’t resist smoked salmon. I badger my friends to see the Al Gore movie, but I also fly on fuel-gulping jets. Great clouds of hypocrisy swirl around me.”

And then there are the earnest guys at Greenpeace Canada who set up a faux nuclear movement on the site ilovenukes.ca featuring a petition to name a nuclear reactor after Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. It includes a video of pro-nuclear protesters waving signs that say, “Chernobyl was a fluke, let’s go nuke.”

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It was and exciting time in Calgary and Drumheller as the election results came in.  The Alberta Greens continued the tradition of beating the New Democratic Party and, in Calgary Elbow, coming in 3rd with 6% of the vote.

In Calgary Elbow, there was an appetite for change and many who voted saw the opportunity to best unseat the ruling Progressive Conservatives by voting Liberal.  The fact that they wanted change was apparent and the Greens were there to give them a flavor of change: sustainability, social responsibility and energy efficiency.