Living or Pancakes?

In recent years, the development of the term ‘green’ to denote environmentally friendly concepts is being questioned by some leading environmentalists.  Joe Adler of the Global Defense Council (GDC), the most influential lobbying group in D.C. said, ‘What we are trying to get across with the word green is the idea of earthiness, but in reality we should realize that the earth is not green, but is actually earth-toned.’

According to the color spectrum, the earth actually consists of more colors than green.  In reality the earth has several earth tones which range from green, brown, blue, yellow, orange, red, aqua, turquoise, tan, off-white, pearl, crimson, and many shades of gray.  So now, the GDC is calling for a change in the vernacular to turn the ‘green’ movement into the ‘earth-tones-with-natural-hues’ movement.

Little is known about the impact of the new earth-tones-with-natural-hues movement, but NBC is perplexed about what color to use on the peacock during Green Week, ‘Right now, we only have 5 segments on the peacock’s tail, so we are troubled by the new pressure to add more earth tones, because we would have to have one freakin’ huge peacock to accommodate the change.’ said Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC on Saturday.