APRIL 22, 2008 - With the advent of another Earth Day, more and more media are featuring things Green. Even Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine—times have definitely changed! It wasn’t too long ago that environmental issues were neither sexy nor newsworthy. We were pleased that the Daily Green included us in their brand-new “Heart of Green” awards, recognizing people who have brought responsible-living messages to the public. What with fellow nominees including Brad Pitt and Leonardo diCaprio, we would be even more pleased if they had an Academy Awards style party . . . (Can you guess that it’s the female half of our duo writing this post?)

Our pal No Impact Man of New York has been annointed into their “Heartburn of Green” category, acknowledging those who have important messages, but one that not everybody is ready to embrace. No Impact Man recently completed a year of gradually eliminating all environmental harms from his family’s life—no plastic, no garbage, no electricity use, and most famously, no toilet paper. We look forward to the day when his anti-consumerist message is more broadly accepted. It could be sooner than we think—we thought we were oddballs when we started our local eating experiment in 2005. Though I have to admit, I haven’t quite convincd myself to do without toilet paper! -ADS

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