Articles by Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan
Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan is Grist's "Greenie Pig" -- weathering all manner of inconvenience and insult in the name of forging a more eco-friendly life. She is a freelance writer and special projects editor at Backpacker magazine. Her writing has also appeared in 5280 (Denver's city magazine), Women's Adventure, and Spry.
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Plucking delicious: Last-minute foraging for a dinner party
Grist's green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, picked a foraging theme for a small dinner party with friends. Here's what she cooked up.
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Good clean fun: Can green gadgets replace the washing machine?
Grist's green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, tries her hand -- literally -- at skipping the resource-guzzling washer and dryer.
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Resisting the splurge: The travails of an urban hunter-gatherer
Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, quit shopping, cold turkey, for a month. Well, almost. What do you think -- in the No New Stuff challenge, did she pass or fail?
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Stuff it: Test your mettle by giving up shopping
Could you go for an entire month without buying anything new? Follow Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, into the valley of temptation.
