Author Archive: greenhedonist
Traveling with a Clear(er) Conscience
Ever wondered how to indulge your love of travel and feel good about it? How to be sure you’re not stomping around the globe with an enormous carbon footprint? I think about this often, and it’s a tough nut to crack. Frankly, it would take a lot of compact fluorescent lightbulbs and cooking in the […]
Living on Vacation Every Day
When my wonderful free-range friend Stacy started a small business called “Live on Vacation Every Day,” I have to admit my first reaction was like the one you’d feel if your favorite kid just told you he was going to build a moon rocket out of the leftover refrigerator box, “Sure you are. Of course […]
A Yelp for green hedonists, hold the whining?
Well, I’ve been having fun exploring FarmPlate.com, which bills itself as the largest nationwide directory of sustainable food businesses . . . an online community of farmers, fishermen, foragers, food and drink artisans, restaurants, markets and foodies. With the same sort of rating/review star system used by Yelp, it hopes to cut through the clutter […]
Social ammunition for green hedonists everywhere
In that irresponsible way in which an email link leads to another which leads to another which… I stumbled over Brandkarma today. (for those of you who’ve known about it for a zillion years and that’s soooo 17 seconds ago, shoot me) Their FAQ page says: Brandkarma is a reputation system designed to keep brands […]
You too might be a green hedonist if…
…you’ve considered composting your wine corks …you ask your server whether the escargot are free-range …your push mower has an insulated cup holder …your camping kit includes a champagne service …you ask the Jaguar dealer if “this thing can run on biofuel?” …you bemoan the fact that there are no in-car compost bins …you have […]
Buying things made by craftsmen you know? Priceless.
We’d been hoping to find a piece of furniture to put next to the front door, somewhere we could sit and take off our muddy boots, but hadn’t found anything that seemed right. Then we discovered Donnie Criswell and Lux Woodworks, who make incredibly cool one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture out of locally-sourced reclaimed materials and […]
What does a green hedonist think about?
I know I’m a freak. Just ask the guy in the produce section at Safeway. He was watching me shop for apples and you could almost read his mind: Wow, check out OCD Girl over there. Must be off her meds today. I’d pick one up, read it, put it down (yes, you can read […]
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