Comments on: Coping with green guilt http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/ making one change every day to greenify my life (and hopefully not being too smug about it) Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: my blog http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-14463 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:46:19 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-14463 check this out…

this is mine…

]]> By: Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume Thirty Seven. | The Good Human http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-6064 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:30:52 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-6064 [...] as a Thistle talks about Coping with green guilt. No one is perfect, but remember we all try to do our [...]

]]> By: marcie http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5953 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:55:32 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5953 Those are the days you are just PRAYING you don’t run into someone who reads your blog or recognizes you… ”
Hey aren’t you that Green as a Thistle Person?
No…wait you can’t be…she wouldn’t eat out of that evil take-out!!!!”

]]> By: just ducky http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5935 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:53:17 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5935 You evil, evil woman! How dare you?!?!?

…just teasing…people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and I live in the most fragile of glass houses…you are doing just fine and far more than I am, but thanks for letting us see your blunders as well as your triumphs!

]]> By: Hellcat13 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5927 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:17:18 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5927 Oooh – I feel kind of “shout-out” special today! And while I do have a couple of crazed “Hellkitties” at home, my screen name is actually the name of my hockey team and my jersey number. I’m a Canadian hockey chick through and through…who carpools to the games :) (We DO earn the name, though.)

It is nice to know that nobody is perfect. I think the main point to take away from your venture is that every little bit helps. Everytime I bring my Sigg shopping with me, not only does it save me the cost of buying a bottle of water, but it saves a bottle being used unnecessarily. It’s about being aware of the need to reduce our impact on the planet because there are so many other options out there. And it’s about teaching others. Because even if global warming is a “great big conspiracy*”, the piles of garbage at the Carp dump aren’t. The full recycling bins that my boyfriend now brings home from work give me the warm and fuzzies.

One more thing – I got my package from ReusableBags.com last night…Yay! I got another Sigg bottle to replace one that was stolen (well, at least the thief is eco-conscious?), I got the WrapMats, and I got a couple of the reusable bags that fold into teeny little bundles. Love it all…thanks for the recommendation to the site! Now, on to the Diva-Cup hunt.

*I don’t actually believe this, BTW.

]]> By: Maureen http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5920 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:11:53 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5920 Oh my god! You don’t actually follow all your rules all the time! I’m so grateful! I’ve been reading your blog for about 6 months now and I have to say it has made a big impact on me. However I’ve never felt compelled to respond until today (to both entries). I’ve been trying to follow some of the ideas you’ve presented but honestly I’m weak and more often than not find myself succumbing to using a piece of recycled paper towel to wipe up a water spill on the floor or drying my jeans in the dryer (can’t do the crunchy jeans!) Oh…and I love to bake and can’t give up my oven! So having you admit that you sometimes have to break your own ‘rules’ makes me so happy…sorry.
I’m choosing to look at it like something akin to baby steps. No oven use for a week or two means it’s ok to bake brownies for 20 min. one night. Also remembering to recycle the toilet paper tubes instead of throwing them in the garbage means it’s ok to use a piece of recycled paper towel…just maybe not for water spills on the floor. Am I being too easy on myself? Is this like the carbon neutral idea?

]]> By: Greenpa http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5909 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:42:17 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5909 see? we’re all fallible. As you may have noticed I got distracted in the middle of the sentence starting So I think- and finished it up with the end of a different sentence from inside my head somewhere, and messed up in proofing. alas. :-/

]]> By: Greenpa http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5907 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:21:03 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5907 OMG!!! you mean you’re not PURE??? I’m so disillusioned.
:-) that’s, like, supposed to be humorous.

One of the things the folks in denial fear most is that greenies will someday force them to conform- to our pure and holy life choices. So I think anything we can do to convince them we’re human- fallible- and not holier than them- is to periodically laugh at our own failures to live up to our own fantasies.

I think it would be fun to have a “Brown Confessions” Day- but I’m also afraid that putting it in that kind of pseudo religious form would just scare them more.

Hm. “Bless me, Colin, for I have Browned.” lol

]]> By: Jennifer http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5891 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:10:11 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/30/coping-with-green-guilt/#comment-5891 WHOAH!! hehe, it actually makes me feel better to know that you cheated a little. You’re way more green than I am and I often wonder how you do it. (Like the whole Diva Cup thing…yeah, I really just don’t think I can go there). But on the brighter side, your posts inspire a ton of people, including me, to live as earth friendly as possible, which in turn probably makes up for all your slip ups. :)

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