Jul
01
by Alex Russell
Driving by Seattle’s Town Hall a few minutes before the start of the debates between King County Executive candidates, I saw all the dramatics of a Seattle green event. There was the plastic bag guy and others in costume with flyers and imperatives to share. Men and women wearing posterboard with hastily-scrawled eco-messages front and back. Green issues today are reaching an interesting point–they are slipping from the fringes and coming to rest comfortably in the mainstream. Twenty years ago Earth Day was about all you could get for a mainstream environmental consciousness. Today politicians are finding it’s an easy and almost somewhat non-partisan way to earn votes from either side.
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