“Green is the new red, white and blue,” says Tom Friedman in his article “The Power of Green,” recently published in The New York Times. He explains that green used to be seen as “girly-man” and “unpatriotic,” but recent events have redefined it as “muscular” and “patriotic.”

Nowhere is this more visible than on the cover of the April 16, 2007 issue of Newsweek, where the world’s foremost authority on girly men, Arnold Schwarzenegger, stands proudly spinning a globe on his finger. (more…)