'Aina alert: Join the Kalihi Stream cleanup project, put together by the Kalihi Ahupua'a Ulu Pono Ahahui (a nonprofit, community-based project). Volunteers are asked to show up 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, behind Kalihi Waena Elementary, 1240 Gulick Ave.; 853-2218 or KAUPA@googlegroups.com.

SAVE THE PLANET

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— Advertiser Staff

FINAL WORD

"Green is the color of money and mold. It's the shade of envy; never mind Mean Joe Greene, or gangrene. Green stands for nothing good. Why base a movement geared to save the world on a hideous hue? ... Without brown, there would be no green."

Mike Rowe , host of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs," who argues in Men's Health magazine that "brown is the new green."