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As a member of the mayor's Green Coalition and cochair of the city's Clean and Green Committee ("I'm not Al Gore"), [Chris Belland] is doing for waste and wastefulness what the former Vice President has done for global warming. His presentation, just like [Gore]'s "An Inconvenient Truth" on Powerpoint, has been seen in various venues around the place and has already been videoed.
In the big BOQ dining room on the Navy base, Belland introduced us to "an animal committing suicide." One of Key West's leading corporate executives, Belland was raised near the Miami River and can recall why Miami got its name from the word for "sweet water." Not any more - not there or hardly anywhere. "Unclean water," he said, "now kills more people in the world than anything else."The throwaway culture that plastic has wrought, explained Belland, began with an excess of oil-based products manufactured during World War II, for which a civilian market had to be found. "I'm not a conspiracy person," he added. "It's the profit motive."See the full content of this document
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Belland Rides a New Wave of Green
This wave of green is tossing up the most unexpected of bedfellows. Businessman Chris Belland, a founding partner in Historic Tours of America, has developed an Al Gore-style show-and-tell called "Love Your Is...
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