Garbage!
Tonight was one of those nights when I was proud to be a resident of the City of Harrisonburg. (If my last name were Obama, someone would probably rake me over the coals for that comment.) This wasn’t the first time I’ve been proud to live here, and I’m sure it won’t be the last… unless everything cool that is happening in the Friendly City suddenly comes to a screeching halt.
About a month ago I managed to join an email listserv for a newly-formed Documentary Group, which is organizing local screenings and discussions of documentary films. Tonight I was able to attend for the first time, and was pleasantly surprised to see so many people there. Even the mayor showed up to watch “Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home,” in which the McDonald family in Toronto agreed to save their garbage for three months to see how much they generated. Their humor provided a good balance for the sobering realities about garbage, pollution, and energy use in North America.
