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If you're already tired today of hearing from Michael and Ted and Adam and their mentor, George (you may not be, but I sure am), you need these words from Grist founder Chip Giller:

Sustainability is the new bling. In rural America, residents are recognizing the potential of wind power, solar energy, biodiesel, and other green industries to revitalize their communities. Farmers are discovering the advantages of precision agriculture. Communities are fighting the stench, pollution, and economic ravages of factory farms.

Sustainability is the new self-reliance. In churches, mosques, and temples, religious leaders are taking seriously their responsibility as stewards of God's creation. They are retrofitting their places of worship for energy efficiency, spreading the word to their congregations, banding together to pressure politicians, and asking, ''What would Jesus drive?"

Sustainability is the new grace. In minority and low-income communities all over the country, civil rights activists are linking disparate struggles -- poverty, criminal justice, transportation, climate change, health -- to continue the path-breaking work of the environmental-justice movement. Sustainability is the new dream.

Read the whole thing. Read it again. It'll make you feel better about everything good you've done all year -- even if it's just buying food at the farmer's market or taking the bus to work.

Here's the link again: Click. Like that. It's so right on it almost makes me weep.

Hey, I just realized "Death of Environmentalism" forms the same acronym as Department of Energy. Conspiracy?

Other Earth Day News:

My list of local events in Los Angeles is here. (I'll be at the Eco-MayFestival by day.)
It's a full moon at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, and one of my favorite local DJs will be spinning at a boat party benefit for NextAid.
My blog buddy Kit Stolz, who gave me all his climate change sources, has now has his own eloquent forum.
The long-simmering energy bill not even libertarians like (it hasn't changed much since last year) passed in the House yesterday. This is the best article I've read about it so far.

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