The November/December issue of HopeDance magazine is now available. It’s their usual wonderful eclectic editorial mix. Though there’s much to love about the issue, Hilary Grant’s article, “The Go Green Initiative: Teaching Recycling One Child at a Time” resonated with me especially. I think it must be because she’s talking here about a very grassroots approach to a huge problem. And it underlines the very real difference each one of us can make.
The article is about Jill Buck, “daughter of an Illinois coal miner, commissioned United States Naval officer and California State Assembly challenger,” whose Go Green Initiative program has a single goal: “to educate one child, one classroom, one school at a time about the necessity of recycling” and has become, in just five years, the fastest growing environmental education program in the United States.
What I love here is that it really brings home something those of us who are strong supporters for environmental change have believed for a long time. Something that in the day-to-day grind of our everyday lives it can be easy to forget: each and every one of us has the power to make a difference. That each of these acts -- these random and sometimes not so random acts -- can contribute, ultimately, to a perfect whole.
