Sleeping naked is green
Journalist Vanessa Farquharson decided she was going to live a green lifestyle for an entire year -- from her personal life (eco-dating) to her professional one (writing in haikus to save ink). Her newly-published memoir tracks her hilarious journey.
GREEN GUINEA PIG: Canadian journalist Vanessa Farquharson put herself under the microscope and tried to live an eco-lifestyle for an entire year. (Photo by Catherine Farquharson) 
What does your typical morning routine look like – a blurry-eyed stop at Starbucks for a banana and takeout latte before hopping on the freeway? You are not alone. What if, instead of the stressful gridlock and disposable cup, you tried biking to your office and treating yourself to a freshly-brewed mug of coffee once you arrived? For Vanessa Farquharson, it is all in a day’s greening.
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Check out "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell and "Skinny *****" by Rory Freedman. I know a lot of "Omnivore's Dilemma"- lovin' greenies who went veg after reading these. Also, the DVD "Earthlings" narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. Fascinating and informative stuff - nothing but facts.
I totally agree with "the real inconvenient truth". I was really disheartened to find that after all the supposed 'greening', she still eats meat. I think she really should have researched these aspects of her lifestyle before she decided to try this.
Why have meat in the house at all? Obviously you don't know the first thing about how best to save the planet. Nearly one fifth of all greenhouse gases are created by raising livestock for the meat and dairy industries. In the U.S., 70 percent of all grains, 80 percent of all agricultural land, half of all water resources, and one-third of all fossil fuels are used to raise animals for food. And every thinking environmentalist knows that the Amazon is being rapidly destroyed simply to.... More
WOW!! I couldn't have said it better myself...it IS hard to believe she still eats meat?!. that should be the FIRST thing to give up...for MANY reasons on MANY levels, not to mention your own health as well as the planet. En-lighten-UP!
I gave up meat many years ago & also gave up trying to persuade people of the benefits & detrimental effects of meat eating.
THAT should be the message she promotes not self-promotion!
First of all, there are just as many studies to prove that being vegan is detrimental your health as there are to prove that it's good for the environment. Second of all, eating sustainably grown organic local meat is no more damaging to the environment than being vegan And since when is honey bad for the Earth? Being a vegetarian and being a vegan are two very different things and the different levels of it should all be considered before slamming someone as an incomplete journalist
No way no how were we intended to eat a diet that has been proven to lead to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, gout, obesity, high-blood pressure, high cholesterol, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer. There's never been a study that has shown that a vegan diet is detrimental to your health - quite the opposite, actually. It is seriously unethical to mislead readers in an anonymous venue just because it reaffirms your uninformed way of.... More
I would like to know where you "studies" of veganism being detrimental to your health. also, you need to do a bit more research in what it takes to raise one cow for consumption before saying even local meat is not detrimental to the environment, given the green house gases, the fecal waste as well as the wasted food and water to provide very little nutrition to any plate.
