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  Carbon and the wedding-industrial complex

  Thank you, caniscandida. Folks don't generally go about naming their connubial connections on this forum, so I have no idea if we're the only wedded ones here, but somehow I doubt it. Mixed relationships are so difficult, expecially green/non-green.

  I hope you will be able to garden. We're permies and thus hooked on food gardening (lots of pictures here).

  Our best friends are getting hitched this weekend, with a moderately big (~100 people) shindig that they're trying to keep low-footprint, so this has been greatly in my mind. The bride is keeping her sanity, despite being caught in the cogs of the wedding-industrial complex.

  They're being sensible and renting real plates and cups, etc. No dyed bridesmaids shoes (thank goodness - I'm too old for that kind of nonsense). I wonder how the energy consumption numbers pencil out for transporting and washing real v. producing and disposing of disposable (including the inevietable dry cleaning that disposables incur).

  Another pair of friends got invited to an upcoming wedding-stravaganza. The registry, which mostly consisted of sponsoring honeymoon activities, also included buying offsets for the newlywed's plane trip.

  headdeskOn Green weddings are no better than white ones posted 2 years, 6 months ago 11 Responses

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  Marital madness

  That's a tough row to hoe (particularly if you don't sharpen your hoe first). American women can't even seem to refrain from whining for diamonds steeped in blood. Even after seeing Leonardo di Caprio get killed for them.

  I can't imagine asking a bridezilla to refrain from purchasing specialty tissues for Her Special Day (TM). Maybe Seventh Generation should come out with some and just not mention the post-consumer recycled content on the packaging.

  It's been almost a year since Green_Engineer and I tied the knot. The Contra Costa County Deputy Registrar of Civil Marraige said we were the most earnest couple she had wed. Then we spent the afternoon getting straw to sheet mulch our back yard.

  sigh

  A perfect day.On Green weddings are no better than white ones posted 2 years, 6 months ago 11 Responses

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  Skytrain rocks

  Well, it's actually a very smooth ride.

  We rode Skytrain during a trip to Vancouver and, despite it being a day containing a freak snowstorm, the service was quicker, smoother and more reliable than BART. The conducters were very friendly and knowledgable.

  Being able to ride Skytrain regularly would be nearly enough motivation for me to move to Vancouver if I was prepared to grow gills.On Making public transit work posted 2 years, 6 months ago 9 Responses

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  21st century Mennonites

  The Advocate says they're using the power for light. Makes sense. That's gotta be nicer than living with than kerosene, or even nat gas, lamps.

  I hope Raber is selling CFLs, too.On The Amish dig it posted 2 years, 6 months ago 7 Responses

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  Diacetyl evil

  I knew that anything with so persisent a stink couldn't be good news. Ever try to get that smell out of a microwave?

  Flavor engineering - another field to pull your investments from.On Orville Redenbacher must be stopped posted 2 years, 6 months ago 9 Responses