Sunday we attended the Chicago Green Festival at Navy Pier with tickets my wife won by being, like, sooo good. Pleasingly, the first thing we saw on entering was some installation involving bikes and recycling and people in quasi-futuristic uniform undyed probably-hemp get-ups.
Unfortunately the second thing I saw was a display in which Best Buy and Black & Decker present themselves as Super Green Dudes because I guess Black & Decker has a few solar-powered things that they sell and Best Buy recycles piles of last week's now-obsolete consumer goods (ie, ship it off to China or some third-world punching bag where the toxic chemicals and heavy metals in the boards seep into the groundwater)
Fortunately the horrific soon gave way to the absurd at the sight of another green product: Organic aerosol cans of pancake batter.
But, weirdo faux-green markety nonsense aside, Dexter got to hang out with some arthropods.
and at the largely-vegan wholly-smug cafeteria area, one stand was giving out free promotional fake mustaches. Dexter wasn't content with just one.
