Green Dating
Please don’t hate me for starting my very first column with these words, “Think about it!”
No hate yet, right? I sure hope not… but then again, you, beautiful reader, wouldn’t be reading this magazine if you weren’t already thinking About It. And the IT to which I refer is…Living Responsibly.
Understanding now that everything we use, buy, trade, build with, destroy with, manufacture with,…everything needs to be held to a certain standard…and that standard is: How Sustainable, Renewable, Recyclable and/or reusable is this item? …and we’re thinking about it more and more…well, we think about it IN BETWEEN classes, clients, office visits, patients, AND… SAINTS, WAVE, WOLF PACK and TIGER Innings, periods and quarters, right?
This stuff IS important or it is becoming very important to us as we begin to understand what we’ve finally figured out that there is now something misguided about the way we’ve been living on this home planet of ours. Now, more and more of us are learning how to live our lives and make the changes that are necessary in order to begin feeling like we are living responsibly and caring for the environment and the other species with whom we share this blue-green star in the Galaxy.
We’re beginning to realize that certain things, like breathing clean air, and hoping future generations have clean air to breathe, not killing off all ocean life and living within our Earthly means are actually things that very important to us AND….(now I’m coming to my point.)…we’re beginning to realize that we really would prefer a mate who’s as interested in living in a way that coincides with nature and a sort of “Code of Sustainability”, right?
Am I close?
It’s important that they be at least interested in learning and not stonewalling us that it’s all a crock and no point anyway. (I’ve heard it. I know you have.) Am I getting warmer?
So, dating green. Had you thought about it? Have you tried it? There are a number of green dating sites, as they’re called…sites where you can meet people who care about the environment and put extra time into doing what they can to help by reducing their carbon footprint, living as vegans, vegetarians, etc.
The sites are fun and interesting. A few of them are FREE, such as: http://www.green-passions.com/ , which is designed specifically for Raw Foodists, Activists, Animal Rights Advocates, Vegetarians and Environmentalists. Or there is http://www.planetearthsingles.com/ a basic site for green-thinking individuals who want to meet a like-minded person. And then, there is the best known Green dating site so far, of course: http://www.greensingles.com/ which has had wide success…so there are choices out there. Weeding thru them won’t, of course, be any different than it is on Match.com or eHarmony for finding a guy with whom you share not only ecological interests but so many other ‘Life and the living of it’ interests and values.
The Search goes on, however, in meeting people on sites like these, maybe it’s easier since it’s likely that you won’t have to repeat on a daily basis that uneaten pieces of pizza go in either the trash or the composter and not in the recycling bin and that, yes, his NASCAR fixation does have represent an environmental cost beyond his comprehension.
Life gets easier at almost the same speed it grows more challenging.
As you read this monthly column, I hope to be much more helpful and maybe a bit fun as well!
In fact, let me share quickly with you what I hope to accomplish with this column. You, my readers..single maybe, but all of you interested in socializing with others who care as much about recycling and living a sustainable life as you do. In many situations, support groups help. So…for green-conscious singles, dating…well, how about a support group for Green Dating….how do you feel about that idea? AND…further…how about being able to get discounts with participating advertisers!
It would work like this: Say you read their ad in our pages and you see a little “GreenDiva” symbol in the corner of the ad…it represent s to our little ‘support group’ that they are of particular interest to us…and they have agreed to honor us with a discount or a freebie or some such add-on to their service to us particularly, as green single ladies.
And once-monthly, we’ll take time to engage with and visit a select number of our vendors. They will prepare a presentation, a demonstration or simply a very nice hosted evening of wine and goodies, where we may peruse their wares or services. AND…we’ll also include a dining and/or drinking venue at the end of the night where our male single readers will meet up and MINGLE to your spectacular Green Hearts’ desire with Green Men of New Orleans.
Some ideas for demonstrations and presentations would be an Exercise Trainer, Yoga Teacher, or perhaps a cooking demo or tango lessons or maybe a talk by one of New Orleans leading health care practitioners…all just ideas and possibilities for what could be one of the most entertaining events of the month, every month!
Sound like a fun group to be a part of? I hoped you might think so, because you can join…and we’ll get you your Green Divas membership card as soon as you sign up and you can begin getting discounts and freebies right away. The card and membership will cost you nothing but a smile, which is a renewable source of energy! LOL
Lovely to meet you…now let’s look forward to our first Green Divas evening out on October 22 @Canopy at 1382 Magazine St.!
BOO!!!!
TO JOIN AND RECEIVE YOUR GREENdivas Membership card, please EMAIL greendiva@louisianagreenscene.com
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