Ahhhhh! That's better. I found the magic bullet to change the green background color of Cognocentric. Finding it was actually pretty easy once I decided to look.
One of the first people kind enough to notice and comment on my blog was Jim Henley at
Unqualified Offerings, who noted the unfortunate color scheme of the template I was using and suggested that the reasoning behind that use was an affinity for his similarly colored site. Alas, no. While I read Unqualified Offerings fairly religiously, I chose the template because it was the only one on which I could figure out how to put perma links.
And now I have figured out how to lose the color.
You will all soon be within my power! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!