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Green with irony
by Letter to the Editor May 6, 2008

This past Wednesday as I was walking downtown on my lunch break (and enjoying this phenomenal weather!), there was a gentleman on Monument Circle handing out these Green Guides (April 23-30). He offered me one as I passed, and I politely declined (at least I thought I was being polite). “What, you don’t want something that’s free?! You don’t want to be friendly to the environment!” he said as he practically shoved the pamphlet in my face. It’s not that I don’t want free literature about such an important issue, it’s that I don’t want to contribute to the problem! As I walked farther around the circle, I saw that these enthusiastically distributed Green Guides had begun piling up in trash cans, and there were even a few littering the sidewalks! Now that is the worst kind of irony. Instead of forcing these guides on people who may just throw them away (as people are wont to do with fliers that are publicly distributed this way), perhaps it is best to put them somewhere where people are encouraged to pick them up. Or at least don’t heckle people that decline to take a pamphlet. They might already be living greener than you think. (I was, however, pleased to note that it was printed on 100 percent recycled paper.)

posted by Melinda Hanley
Indianapolis

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