How Green is My South Dakota?

By Gordon Garnos

AT ISSUE: With sincere apologies to film director-author Richard Llewellyn, who wrote "How Green Was My Valley," I ask the question, "How Green is My South Dakota." Llewellyn's book, published in 1939 and later made into an Oscar-winning movie, tells the story of the dreadfully tragic lives in a Welsh mining town of many years ago. Before you think I am comparing those times to South Dakota, I want to make it very clear about the "Green" I am talking about. What I am advocating is looking at what energy conservation (green) methods South Dakota folks are practicing and how a family can save some money and save energy at the same time. (Full Article)