A new environmentalism: could a new green ethic provide common cause in our deeply divided nation?(THE ENVIRONMENT: DEATH AND REBIRTH)

MCLEAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IS SO RED THAT political operatives might call it crimson. You can't get much further from the image of a latte-drinking liberal than Bernadine Edwards, a local school-bus driver. She speaks with a soft Kentucky lilt as she looks out over the green valley that has been in her family for more than 60 years. "Something here just ain't right," she says.

What's wrong is the pollution that has slowly ruined her family's life, forcing her to wear a respiratory mask when she gardens outside and making her give up her seat on the porch swing next to ...

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