After the Green Products Expo, I left for Florida to visit my mother and hopefully get a bit of R & R.
When I think about my family, there's a long history of green living. Seniors currently in their 70s and 80s began the authentic green movement back during the 1940s when they were taught that “sacrifice meant victory” in the strictest of terms – the war could not be won without conserving on the homefront.
There are legions of “green grandparents” out there today. The Web site Grandparents.com wrote an article with 10 easy tips to be a greener granny. There is even a network called Green Seniors that believes "the concept of Community is being lost in the face of the rush towards a future that has been defined by corporations and politicians; not by the people that are directly affected by the decisions and actions that they take."
Sounds just right to me.
My sister Ellen is fluent in Spanish and will help translate the Ecobags.com Web site so that this growing population has the opportunity and knowledge to adopt green practices. She's gone to the organic side in terms of food, but she's generally a green baby.
Then there is my sister Heidi...Heidi is an organic farmer on Martha's Vineyard. Enough said.
I won't even go into my husband Blake. That's another entry.
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