Ed’s Green Blog

Yeah, I could afford any car, but the Prius is my vehicle of choice. Its a gas-sipper, and a statement of conspicuous nonconsumption. I’m a Prius driving, eco-this, eco-that, look-at-me environmentalist…

Yeah, I want to tell a more interesting story about myself by constructing my identity as a narrative…

Yeah, I want to produce fewer emissions, minimize external harm, lower resource consumption, and let everyone know that I’ve made a deliberate choice to do so…

Yeah, I want to be seen as someone who’s concerned about the world around me…

Yeah, I want to know the source of what I buy and where it came from…

Yeah I associate organics with not just healthy eating, but low-impact, earth-friendly, sustainable farming…

Yeah, I want others to see that I’ve done this eco-thing or that eco-thing, so that others might see themselves doing this…

So I guess you can call me neo-green, eco-capitalist, eco-radical, or whatever the new label of the times might be…

But one thing I’m not is attention starved. Its not about trying to get people to like me.
Its inevitable that somebody, somewhere may not like me. I don’t care if you do or don’t like me, it ultimately doesn’t matter.

My mantra is reduce, reuse, recycle and I vote with my wallet.