1. Ever hear of the ICLEI? We read that the ICLEI is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. Doesn’t sustainable development sound rather frightening? Ominous?

Winky and his wife were getting ready for bed. She was standing in front of a full length mirror looking at herself. ‘You know ,’ she says, ‘I look in the mirror and I see an old woman. My face is all wrinkled, I’m too skinny. I’m nothing but skin and bones. I’m a homely old woman. Quick, tell me something good to make me feel better about myself’ Winky says, “well……there’s nothing wrong with your eyesight’.