Penny Pincher awards go to waste watchers

 
Michelle Singletary
Published: September 16, 2007

WASHINGTON — In an address to the nation in 1977, President Jimmy Carter called our nation's energy crisis the "moral equivalent of war.” Several years later, Carter wrote in a magazine article that the attitude of the American people concerning conservation had changed.

"Maybe our efforts have engendered a spirit of common purpose and sacrifice that will be adequate to meet new crises — if we remember that t...


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