Generation Green
By Justine

While Gen Xers are cleaning up after our affluenza binge, and trying to redeem ourselves from the moral debris of our gluttonous buying, using and trashing of stuff, a new generation is growing up learning from some of our missteps.

Generation Green’s (oh how I wish I had coined that term!) message is, like all the generations before it, a form of the rejecting past and current social norms and forging new ones. While Gen Xer’s (like me) cornered the market on apathy, the Gen G’s are a ravenously active and care deeply.

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Thank God For OprahBy Justine I know, I know, Oprah, geez. But when she jumps on a bandwagon, millions of Americans jump right afterward. On Monday she had a show on about redecorating your home without buying anything. Her guests were an expert decorator and a professional organizer.

This team did some innovative and cool things. The first thing they did was to ask a neighborhood of people to clean out every closet, attic, garage and storage space in each of their homes.

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High Fructose Corn Syrup
By Justine Ligon

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Is Being a “Checkbook Environmentalist” Unethical?

By Justine Ligon

When you think about it, living without eco-mindedness and then just writing a check to a conservation fund to offset your carbon footprint and presumably your guilt, is utterly American.  It’s like the credit card scenario all over again.  I want what I want and I want it now, but I also want to be able to feel good about myself.

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