The importance of our work and our conversations with people was driven home to me after our New Year's Eve event in front of Wild Oats. In line at the checkout, I pointed out to my daughter Sammi (age 11) that the woman in front of us was using cloth bags. To which she replied, "Yeah, Mom, but she has like a dozen [produce] items in plastic bags!" So had she really grasped the importance of "choose to reuse" or was she just blindly following a trend? Some of the people who have visited our Pollution Solutions booth and seen our "Story About Bags" book describing the entire lifecycle of plastic and paper bags have come back to us to say how they have been inspired to look for more reusable products, to begin composting, and to try to eat more locally grown food. WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE!