One-time local environmental leader is forever green

She slides into the restaurant booth, friendly and beaming, and decides on fries and a pork tenderloin. Blue eyes sparkle yet at her 74 years. She's had ups and downs. Surgeries, losses. She sighs.

"Old age ain't for sissies," she says, laughing as she quotes Bette Davis.

But over lunch, Barbara Anderson tells the stories of what it was like nearly 40 years ago, when she was an energetic wife and mother of three living in Urbana and had an idea to start a local "green" movement.

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