Vanity Fair published their first-ever green issue with the cover being a photograph by Annie Leibovitz. The magazine, with this May issue, is beginning "an increased commitment to reporting on the threat to our precious planet." Earth day has come and gone, but will green linger? Eco-ists are advising the UK government urging more radical action to promote green lifestyles.
So Green is the new Black? Seems so. It is a good p.r. move. The Citizens' Environmental Coalition thinks the VF message will reach a much broader audience than environmentalists generally reach. Neo-Greens will drive a new wave of innovation, says John Windsor, a corporate visionary.
Enviro-images? Bag News Notes deconstructs the envir0-visuals here.
Online news = eco reading... The young audience for newspapers thinks of them as "dead trees" and prefers online reading. How can I be more green? asks Wired magazine. Here's how to do an indoor compost and an outdoor compost. Safeguarding the environment ranks high on political and social surveys but "a yawning gap exists between good intentions and reality," says the lede paragraph in an article, Thinking Green, in the April/May '06 issue of Scientific American Mind.
Green diapers? Fashion and function on one cute bum... Organic cotton diapers here. Kate Spade's green diaper bags? Cute but not eco-bags? Green Babies? More like it, carried at Santa Monica Whole Foods. Whole baby! Eco products? Ecobaby organics at ecobaby.com. One way to save the environment... early potty training (more than 50% ofthe world's children are toilet trained by the time they turn one, according to Pediatrics magazine. Out of diapers at 7 months?
5/12 Update: Rachel Carson, a scientist, wrote Silent Spring in 1962 about pesticides and the harm to the environment. It led to activists and the banning of DDT. A new book by Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catasrophe, gives urgent warnings about global warming and might lead to a well-spring of understanding in the same way Carson's book.
Green, Green...the new money machine? Or the next revolution?
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