San Luis Obispo is a green city.
Bicycling is green transportation.
Green city builds green transportation highway from Cal Poly to Foothill.
First, though, green city cuts down nice grove of trees, then buries little creek where frogs croaked. Impermeable black highway replaces trees and frogs. Great celebration and warm talk and feelings of greenness ensue.
Green city. Green speak. Greenwash.
This article appears in Jun 17-24, 2010.