European shades of green: in addition to our trade imbalance, America has a huge deficit of smart environmental policies. Here's where more imports makes sense.(GREEN ECONOMY)
American Prospect, The, April, 2006 by Klein, Ezra
"OH, AND ONE MORE THING," SAID Sebastian Paauw, organizer of a recent trip I took to the Netherlands, "we're not going to rent you a car, but we'll give you a bike."
True to his word, he promptly provided me with a bicycle. And while the cheese, wine, and charmingly narrow streets and alleyways made me feel pretty European, my new, cosmopolitan identity didn't quite click till I was gliding about on my sloping, bright-red three-speed.
But I'm a Californian, and a southern Californian at that. So I'm plenty used to lands where automobile intertwines with ...
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