
Can appealing to patriotism get more conservatives recycling? Perhaps… there’s evidence it’s worked before.
Jeff McIntire-Strasburg has been blogging a greener world via sustainablog since 2003!

For most tomato pickers in the US, a bucket brings in 50 cents, a piece rate that has remained virtually unchanged for more than 30 years. Because the rate is set so low, a worker has to pick more than two and a quarter tons of tomatoes per day – the weight of a young elephant – to make the minimum wage. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is transforming all of this.

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