I had the pleasure of attending a fund raiser for the Potomac Riverkeepers this past Sunday evening. This organization is about seven years old and does a fantastic job of patrolling the Potomac, and Shenandoah Rivers, for trash and pollution. It is difficult to believe that some of us need to be reminded about just what an important resource the Potomac River is to the Metro Area.  I met many dedicated workers and volunteers. (http://www.potomacriverkeeper.org/ ) Their link is also on our website under Living Green Now. They have made some real headway in stopping some companies along the Potomac and Shenandoah from releasing more pollutants into the rivers than allowed by the Clean Water Act of 1977.  I felt like I was in an environmental time warp. Back in the seventies, and I have mentioned this before, there was a strong environmental movement to clean up our planet. This movement and any of its momentum just seemed to disappear in the decade of the 1980s. Folks starting thinking about pollution a little in the nineties but it seems to have taken until the 21^st century to revive the movement again. It is a shame that we have lost thirty years. Back in the 1970s we were going to rid ourselves of our dependency on foreign oil and start cleaning up our air and water pollution. Sound familiar ? Anyway I think we are back on the right track. Also in conversations that night some of us took solace in the fact that for our children environmentalism is simply a way of life.