This month:

An evening with The Hush Sound.

Who's doing what to save the planet in the music world.

Save The Bears! Polar bears are becoming extinct as a result of global warming.

The Green Party alternative to Democrats and Republicans.

Curbing our own usage may be key ro reducing our oil dependence.

Reviews: Ben Folds, Vienna Teng, WovenHand.

Forgotten Classics: Barenaked Ladies' debut album Gordon.

The Green Room's Community Trash Challenge!

Ways to contact your elected representatives.

This month's environmental news headlines.

The Creative Corner.

Editor's Notes

     This has been a crazy month in The Green Room, both personally and professionally. One often influences the other, and that was definitely the case this time around. I have to thank my illustrious partner for picking up my magazine-slack while I concentrated on little things like preparing for my college graduation ceremony. You'll notice his name in many more bylines for this issue.

     We're implementing a few minor changes again - one of which you can see right now. Most of them are cosmetic layout adjustments or minor tweaks, nothing huge this time. The one sizable addition we're working on will be coming in a later issue - we're compiling a Green Room photo album. In any given month, we take far more pictures than we have room for in an issue, and we'd like to share these with our readers. Look for that sometime in the coming months.

     Also, you may have noticed the repeated lack of the Tree-Hugging Freaks comic strip. Try as we might, we can't seem to find an artist who can reliably get us the strips on time. As such, the comic is currently on hiatus. If you're interested in drawing for us, or know someone else who might be, let us know! (Details available here.) We'd really like to bring it back, but sadly neither of us can draw.

     This month's issue features a number of CD reviews and a chat with The Hush Sound. Also The Green Room gets political, speaking to a few candidates, and officially launching our own Save the Bears campaign.

     Enjoy the read!