Al Gore Points To Ballard's Earth-Friendly/Secession Movement

We had trouble figuring out exactly what Ballard is doing to convince the world it's so green and environmentally huggable, but whatever it is, it's working. Al Gore has apparently even jumped on the alternative fueled bandwagon and started heralding Ballard's credentials. Check him out in this NYU speech:

Individual Americans of all ages are becoming a part of a movement, asking what they can do as individuals and what they can do as consumers and as citizens and voters. Many individuals and businesses have decided to take an approach known as "Zero Carbon." They are reducing their CO2 as much as possible and then offsetting the rest with reductions elsewhere including by the planting of trees. At least one entire community -- Ballard, a city of 18,000 people in Washington State -- is embarking on a goal of making the entire community zero carbon.

Whoa whoa whoa there, Al. We're ecstatic that you seem to have chugged some of Ballard's wheatgrass-flavored Koolaid and are trumpeting their carbon initiatives, but it's all too clear to any Seattle resident that the secessionist Ballard movement has it's hooks in you as well. "A city of 18,000 people in Washington State?" Nice try. It's a neighborhood of Seattle, despite the independent spirit of the over-zealots who reside there. Nice speech, though.