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blogGreen Anxiety
By Mary Beth Gonzalez, iVillage.com
I think I'm making myself sick. When I'm not thinking about new ways to go green, I'm thinking about how to get rid of the things in my life that aren't green. As my green options have increased, so does my anxiety over making my life even greener.
Seven years ago, when I first started learning how to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, green products and information on how to go green were not easily available. There were just a few local options for where to get local and organic food, and only a few companies (many online or catalog companies) who made non-toxic cleaning supplies, natural personal care products and organic sheets/towels. Back then, finding low VOC paint, reverse osmosis water filters, natural carpeting, natural fiber clothing and sustainable furniture was very difficult. Yet, committed as I was to this eco-lifestyle, I searched out and found the few, true, green companies and just resolved myself to knowing that I was doing my best.
I think I'm making myself sick. When I'm not thinking about new ways to go green, I'm thinking about how to get rid of the things in my life that aren't green. As my green options have increased, so does my anxiety over making my life even greener.
Seven years ago, when I first started learning how to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, green products and information on how to go green were not easily available. There were just a few local options for where to get local and organic food, and only a few companies (many online or catalog companies) who made non-toxic cleaning supplies, natural personal care products and organic sheets/towels. Back then, finding low VOC paint, reverse osmosis water filters, natural carpeting, natural fiber clothing and sustainable furniture was very difficult. Yet, committed as I was to this eco-lifestyle, I searched out and found the few, true, green companies and just resolved myself to knowing that I was doing my best.
blogMy Eco-Mean Fitness Routine
By Leslie Goldman, iVillage.com
I have recently come to realize that I am the most horrifying monstrosity of non-eco-chicness to ever walk the face of our ailing earth.
Or the floors of my local gym, anyway.
It started to dawn on me when I found myself tossing plastic cup after plastic cup away during my daily workouts. Considering the fact I live in a near-constant state of dehydration - I hate H20, preferring Diet A&W and Starbucks Americanos instead - I've always been grateful to my health club for the water and ice machines dotted throughout. The span of time between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. is pretty much the only time I actually gulp water with pleasure and abandon, during and after a sweaty StepMill session. But all of my cups, along with my co-members', go straight into the garbage. The non-recyclable kind. I've had it in my mind to say something to the owner of the place but haven't gotten around to it.
I have recently come to realize that I am the most horrifying monstrosity of non-eco-chicness to ever walk the face of our ailing earth.
Or the floors of my local gym, anyway.
It started to dawn on me when I found myself tossing plastic cup after plastic cup away during my daily workouts. Considering the fact I live in a near-constant state of dehydration - I hate H20, preferring Diet A&W and Starbucks Americanos instead - I've always been grateful to my health club for the water and ice machines dotted throughout. The span of time between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. is pretty much the only time I actually gulp water with pleasure and abandon, during and after a sweaty StepMill session. But all of my cups, along with my co-members', go straight into the garbage. The non-recyclable kind. I've had it in my mind to say something to the owner of the place but haven't gotten around to it.
blogEco-Anxiety?
By Perri Peltz, WNBC
Does the sight of carbon dioxide spewing from a tail pipe send you into a frenzy? Do 70 degree days in the middle of winter put you into a panic- do you try and avoid air travel because you don't want to expand your ever growing carbon footprint? Or do you worry that your city will one soon become one with the ocean?
If you answered yes to any of these, unscientific, questions, then you may be suffering from the latest neurosis to hit the city streets- it's called Eco Anxiety, and believe it or not its real.
Does the sight of carbon dioxide spewing from a tail pipe send you into a frenzy? Do 70 degree days in the middle of winter put you into a panic- do you try and avoid air travel because you don't want to expand your ever growing carbon footprint? Or do you worry that your city will one soon become one with the ocean?
If you answered yes to any of these, unscientific, questions, then you may be suffering from the latest neurosis to hit the city streets- it's called Eco Anxiety, and believe it or not its real.
