Trash Talk: Day 2

Monday was a good day.
No garbage whatsoever!
Huh. So what do I write about?

Apparently, I am not the only one out there doing this. I’m on the wave of some trend (eye roll). Seth Godin is chatting it up as “Zero is the new black” with regards to this fellow, Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man. He and his wife and daughter are chronicling their experiences for a year living with no environmental impact in New York City- no elevators, no toilet paper, no restaurants, no electricity- but with a humor and desire to not become ascetics that makes the project easy to identify with. (I hope I didn’t just lose my faithful following of 2 readers to No Impact Man. I can be funnier Mom, I swear)

So back to my earlier eye roll. Though I do own a pair of leggings, trends strike me as superficial and ephemeral. I hate to see something as meaningful as zero impact living fall by the wayside with Seattle grunge rock. Trendy is good for attention to the cause, but trendy is bad when it dies. Every movement has its ethos from Vegetarians to Lollapalooza to PETA, and surely some will embrace it for the name only and not the true cause. The next wave could be faux-no-impacters. People who throw things away when no one is looking. ( I would never do that) (I swear)

Here are some other interesting people on the green bandwagon.
A(nother) New York City writer consciously reducing and calculating his environmental impact for one month

John Mayer is promoting through private funding or corporate partnerships, the “introduction of products that are cheap, easy alternatives to cut down on plastics. In the next 90 days I'm going to see how many of these products I can get produced..” He has already stated a project with Incase.

Even the Paparazzi have gone green (aren’t they supposed to be soulless?).
Celebrity gossip as it pertains to environmental issues and activism.