"I'm More Green Than You"

Posted by Shirley Siluk Gregory Nov 14, 2006

Who's better at living a green, sustainable, environmentally responsible life: a vegetarian who drives an SUV or a meat-eater who bikes to work and eats only grass-fed beef? A vegan who lives in a 4,000-square-foot luxury home in the suburbs, or an omnivore (eats everything) who recycles and buys only sustainably caught or raised fish and meat?

These kinds of questions seem to crop up all the time on green-minded discussion boards and letters to the editor sections in green magazines. But here's my question whenever this topic arises: Why are we even having this conversation?

If we're posting on environmentally oriented discussion boards and reading eco-magazines, aren't we all concerned about living better, greener lives? Why worry about who's doing better than whom?

Let's face it: none of us is perfect when it comes to living green, and all of us could do better. One way to start is to acknowledge we're all different in what works best for us at this particular point in out lives. The only thing that matters is that we all try to do well, and then try to do a little better every day.