Cue the Hallelujah Chorus! « Green as a Thistle

Cue the Hallelujah Chorus!

All my fellow Torontonians, please note: Our fair city now recycles plastic bags and Styrofoam! While this doesn’t exactly mean you can forget about tote bags and coffee thermoses, it does mean that when you screw up, you’ll be hurting Mother Earth a little less… kind of like slapping her across the face rather than punching her in the gut.

Rejoice!

Photo courtesy of meckleychina on Flickr.

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4 Responses to “Cue the Hallelujah Chorus!”

Meghan Says:
January 10, 2009 at 11:33 pm | Reply
Hallelujah… Hallelujah…Hallelujah… Halleluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujah… Hallelujah…

That was my chorus.
kimberly Says:
January 11, 2009 at 3:16 pm | Reply
fuck yeah! i was wondering when that would start. i bought some organic zucchini the other day and it came on a styrofoam tray for some reason… i guess i can take it out of my garbage can and put it in the recycling bin now, eh?
thanks for the heads up. i thought it was going to start a few months from now.
Toby Says:
January 12, 2009 at 4:06 am | Reply
Will you be stopping by Ottawa to pick up ours?
Esther Says:
January 27, 2009 at 4:27 am | Reply
Hoping this Hallelujah could reach Quebec city !!!(or at least Montreal…sigh)
By the way, I like your blog very much !

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Welcome to Green as a Thistle. My name is Vanessa, I'm a journalist at the National Post, based in Toronto. When I saw the documentary An Inconven— no, just kidding. Now that organic is the new bl— OK, no, seriously now. In short, this blog began somewhere between guilt and earnestness, between dissing Stéphane Dion's dog (named Kyoto) and finding myself amongst a group of eco-hipsters drinking hemp beer at an anti-styrofoam party. I decided to take on a bit of a challenge: Spend each day, for an entire calendar year, doing one thing that betters the environment. The idea was that everything I did, I kept doing (so if I switched brands, it was a permanent switch; if I turned down my thermostat, I kept it down), so that by day 365, I'd be living as green a lifestyle as it gets. It was a gruelling year, but in the end, it proved that being an environmentalist doesn't necessarily mean being a smug hippie, nor does it have to mean compromising aesthetic values or good wine. You can read more about what I learned in my book, Sleeping Naked is Green, or just keep reading this here blog. Now, I'm mostly writing about whatever the heck pops into my head (isn't that a novel concept for a blog?).

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