On why it isn’t Easy Being Green

So you know those people who wear their environmentalism as a badge, like they want some sort of recognition for being progressive and saving our planet? Yeah, on the spectrum of environmentalists I’m on the other end.

Not that I don’t care about the Earth. I do. But instead of getting some sort of rush taking in my recycling I feel a certain amount of …guilt isn’t the right word, but it’s close enough.

I think it may be guilt that I wasn’t doing it before. Guilt that five years ago I tripple bagged groceries for the hell of it, drove all the time without thinking, and aided the death of my planet.

Now I feel like I should keep my environmentalism on the DL so as to not look like a huge hypocrite. Also, my family thinks I’m a hippy lesbian type. So this wouldn’t help my case.

I have organic sheets. I carry canvas grocery bags around as purses, just in case I go to the store. I drink organic milk and eat organic apples. I even have organic peanut butter (eew).  I’m trying to get into eating locally grown and manufactured goods.

But if you ask me about any of this I will deny it. I’m a closeted environmentalist