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Mission Green on the Move
I bent down to pick up a tattered piece of Styrofoam.
"You hit the mother lode!" George, a retired IBM executive, yelled across one of the main roads through Prince Edward County, Ontario. My stomach heaved at the sight of hundreds of black ants covering the underside of the crumbling piece of packing material. I imagined the explosion of debris as the piece broke up on impact when it had hit the ditch. I expected to be somewhat grossed out at what I encountered as I swept the ditch for trash, but legions of ants, I had not anticipated...[More]