The James Logan Courier

By Tina Lam
Detroit Free Press (MCT)

DETROIT — Just in time for today's 37th anniversary of Earth Day, the Earth is back. Green is cool; global warming is hot.

"It's a great time to be an environmentalist," said Lana Pollack, executive director of the Michigan Environmental Council in Lansing. "I really believe the public has reached a tipping point in terms of concern and understanding about global warming. There's been a big change, even in just the last year."

Consider:
Wayne County runs its road-maintenance and salt trucks on biodiesel and Novi is urging all developers to build green buildings, which conserve energy and water.

From the Courier Archives:

From the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 edition:

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY (1816-1902), English poet, author of Festus, was born at Nottingham on the 22nd of April 1816. His father, who himself published both prose and verse, owned and edited from 1845 to 1852 the Nottingham Mercury, one of the chief journals in his native town. Philip James Bailey received a local education until his sixteenth year, when he matriculated at Glasgow University. He did not, however, take his degree, but moved in 1835 to London and entered Lincoln's Inn. Without making serious practice of the law he settled at Basford, and for three years was occupied with the composition of Festus, which appeared anonymously in 1839.

Read "Helen's Song," a poem by Philip James Bailey, one of three available free from Poets' Corner on theotherpages.org.