GreenMark Public Relations®, Inc.

GreenMark Public Relations congratulates Illinois Senator Barack Obama for becoming president-elect of our great country after an Election Day victory. Obama offers change and hope for America, including in the areas of energy and the environment. President-Elect Obama has said that he plans to help create five million new jobs by investing $150 billion over the next 10 years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future. He also wants to put one million plug-in hybrid cars, built in America, on the road by 2015. He ensures that 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025. We’ve all heard promises for change over the past two years from both parties, now it’s time for us all - Republican and Democrat - to join together and help take responsibility for that change to happen. We believe it can.

Abby Mandel Meyer was the founder of Chicago’s 10-year-old Green City Market – and GreenMark’s first client. I’ll never forget the first time I met her. She didn’t know me but greeted me with her famous ear-to-ear smile and a hug. She felt strongly about the importance of eating sustainably and about supporting local farmers and local chefs. Abby believed food should be respected and celebrated. She created a wonderful fresh food oasis for us to enjoy two days a week. But she was also creating a sustainable food network in Chicago that celebrated the abundance of the earth. Abby took great joy in watching children at the Market. She believed that they are the future of sustainability. Those of us who also believe that must continue what she started and ensure that her legacy of belief in the protection of the earth, the support of small family farms and the health of human beings continues.

Rest in peace, Abby.
Fondly,
Sue Markgraf

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