Examining commitment level - Are we really reducing, reusing, recycling making accomplishments, or are we just consuming in an eco-greenwashing-hype sort of way... Makes you think. -Jon-
Buying into the Green Movement.
A second home, complete with solar panels and constructed with salvaged lumber, in Edgartown, Mass.; Rick Friedman for The New York Times
The New York Times parodies the eco-lifestyle: "Roll out from under the sumptuous hemp-fiber sheets on your bed in the morning and pull on a pair of $245 organic cotton Leviâo[dot accent]s and an Armani biodegradable knit shirt. Stroll from the bedroom in your eco-McMansion, with its photovoltaic solar panels, into the kitchen remodeled with reclaimed lumber. Enter the three-car garage lighted by energy-sipping fluorescent bulbs and slip behind the wheel of your $104,000 Lexus hybrid."
It continues from there to criticize those who buy green products as be...

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