What would you do if you were driving your car and came to a traffic light that was blinking both red and green?

You'd most likely wonder if you're supposed to stop or go.  Fundamentally, you can't do both at the same time.   It's a rather perplexing situation and one I ran into this last weekend at our own Indianapolis Zoo.

As we walked into the dolphin building we were greeted by a sticker on the sliding glass door that boasted the zoo is using 100% green energy.  Inside, the dolphin trainers asked everyone to take the "carbon pledge" and protect the wild dolphins from carbon emissions. 

After the show, we exited the building and happened upon a kiosk filled with lots of souvenirs--almost all of which were made in...you guessed it: China.

So while the zoo is all "green" on the surface, they are selling trinkets from the most polluting country on the face of the earth.  

Plain & Simple:  Don't get me wrong.  I love our zoo.  But fundamentally, they can't sell it as "green" and sell so much that is red.