Into the Streets

摘要

MY FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGN was about napkins. When I was growing up in Phoenix in the 1980s, my household always used paper napkins, except on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I thought nothing about this until spring 1990, when, at 15,1 finally realized that paper comes from forests and that, presumably, our family could spare some trees by using cloth napkins. After my brief campaign of moral suasion, my mother went out and bought a selection of workaday reusable napkins.