Greenie Pig
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Dispatches from a no-wrap Christmas
Photo: plastic_batFor my mother, sweet vindication came as an early Christmas gift this year on page 59 of a lifestyle magazine. This particular magazine, which specializes in snappy home décor, delicious cookery, and other ways to make your life more fabulous than your neighbors’, ran a spread on stylish new ways to wrap presents. There, […]
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Team Tupperware: Doing away with disposables for good — and loving it
Pig out: This week, the Greenie Pig opts out of disposable junk.Somewhere on the California coast, between redwood territory and the Bay Area, lies the world’s most self-righteous coffee shop. My boyfriend, Ted, and I stopped there two summers ago for some much-needed caffeine. But as we queued up to order, handwritten signs confronted us […]
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The Greenie Pig is on a (carbon) diet
I’ve become quite the calorie-counter lately. With the holiday season upon us, I’m really tightening my belt, carefully calculating the number of calories I’d consume from all kinds of daily choices and sniffing out ways to trim the buggers from my diet. Like many a calorie-counter before me can attest, it’s frustrating work. Of course, […]
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Greenie Pig on ‘shrooms: A trip into wild-food foraging
Photo: Elisabeth Kwak-HefferanFarm to table? Please, so 2009. Forest to table is where it’s at right now. And while foraging one’s own nettles, berries, or chestnuts (or paying top dollar for them at hip restaurants) has both foodies and greenies all in a tizzy these days, no other gathering activity has quite the cachet of […]
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The Greenie Pig gets religion on global warming
Forgive me, Earth, for I have sinned. You see, a dear childhood friend of my boyfriend’s got married last Saturday. Our attendance was a foregone conclusion — there was no way Ted could miss his bro’s big day. Problem was, we live in Seattle, and this wedding was in Marfa, Texas, a tiny town a […]
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Jam on it: Uncanny adventures in food preservation
The Greenie Pig gets over her fear of botulism and partakes in some serious home economics.
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What worms eat for breakfast
Our budding Worm Mistress settles in to life with the wrigglers and discovers that it's not as complicated as she feared.
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The Greenie Pig’s got worms
This aspiring eco-mama's got a box of wigglers in the kitchen. Just please guys, don’t try to escape.
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Meet the Greenie Pig
We join our hero as she strives for eco-enlightenment after a lifetime of just going halfway.