How To Find Love In A Greener World

In today's age of inconvenient truths, unearthing a mindful mate has never been easier. According to such green-living authorities as Treehugger.com, Grist.com and eco-chick.com, the growth of the green movement has spurred a surge in eco-themed dating sites, matchmaking services and networking events. Sustainably-sensitive singles no longer need move to Vermont, Colorado or the nearest hippie commune to find love. Instead, just hit up the following:

Green Drinks:

No doubt treehuggers like to party. You can find them at your average bar, nightclub, rowdy disco or rave. Yet beer goggles and vibrating strobe lights make any hippie tough to spot in the crowd. Add an automatic smoke machine and you might as well be playing "Where's Waldo?"

Save yourself the reconnaissance mission and opt for a room full of greenies at Green Drinks, a not-for-profit green networking event that meets monthly in over 300 cities ranging from Sri Lanka to Stillwater, Oklahoma. For a Green Drinks near you visit greendrinks.org.

Outdoor Club:

If you prefer avoiding beer goggles all together, opt for a sober search in the great outdoors. Most cities boast hiking, biking or canoeing networks. Join one of your city's outdoor interest groups and you're bound to meet a bounty of thrill-seeking eco-holics. Bonding over a tough climb or pristine mountain view will heighten the connection and nothing gets the blood pumping--quite literally--like biking or hiking outside.

Volunteer Project:

Get your hands dirty. Volunteer at your local oil spill, conservation site or community-garden project. It's fun and you'll feel good for lifting a finger. Plus you may meet a burly young eco-hunk and nothing breaks the ice like sweaty tree planting.

There are endless volunteer opportunities to choose from. Find a mission that mirrors your level of activism (be it mulching or saving the whales) at volunteermatch.org.

Eco-Dating Site:

Though some may consider it taboo, internet dating is a fully acceptable form of meeting like-minded members of the opposite (or same) sex--several eco-dating sites to choose from and many feature gay and lesbian options. If you're eager to find love consider hitting up some eco-singles networks such as GreenSingles.com, earthwisesingles.com, Greenfriends.com or greenpassions.com.

After filling out a profile and answering a few simple questions (favorite food, color and Sade song), you'll get matched with a single you won't have to debate on the validity of climate change.

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Comments

[lamarguerite]

The issue of eco-compatibility is very real. I have found out, after two years of being married to an ubergreenie. . . It helps now that I have joined him along the greener path. Still, things are not always smooth. To find out more about our adventures, you can go to my environmental green blog, and read about my days 'Life with Green Guru', under Categories! It's funny, it's also serious, and something to consider when embarking in a new love.

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'Listening to the Planet'

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Being too green pt3


The man who is too green has clear plans: His vision, and he won't rest until he can realize it, is for all of us to be put in cages. There's no real need for us, human beings. We're taking up space. Polluting. People just bother him.

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Unconcerned by terrorists


The man who is too green washes nylon bags by hand, is unwilling to read newspapers made of paper, and doesn't use a dryer. His vehicle may emit pollutants, but he won't be selling his jeep, because he needs it to go off-roading, where he can travel around beaches with his friends who are too green and identify reasons for concern.




He sometimes talks to me, the man who is too green. Recently he explained to me that the Navy is polluting the sea. Really. I told him that the Navy defends Israel, but the man who is too green is unconcerned by terrorists. He only fears environmental terrorists. Those people who dare live normally, as if the world isn't about to end.



The man who is too green is convinced that the world is on the verge of ruin and we must shut down the Navy, destroy the Cross-Israeli Highway, crush skyscrapers across the country, and close the Sea of Galilee to visitors.



The man who is too green is a yuppie who wakes up in the morning with a feeling that today it will happen. Earth will become so warm that we'll all evaporate.



The man who is too green doesn't think there's a need for a health budget and certainly not a defense budget. All we need is a strong Environmental Affairs Ministry.



It's convenient to be too green. Instead of leading a controversial agenda, he goes for green, cool, and uncontroversial. He doesn't know the names of his neighbors, but he has named every single iceberg. He hasn't visited his sister in two months (she didn't show up at the latest protest march against the extinction of chrysanthemums,) yet for six months now he's been protesting outside city hall, after the mayor decided to put a sign in a park and build a house where special grass species was growing.



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Being too green pt1


Chanoch Daum writes about a man obsessed with environmental concerns

Chanoch Daum Published: 08.17.07, 15:29 / Israel Opinion




He's a green man. Too green. The environment is his entire world. His life is merely a platform, a basis for his struggle against pollution, global warming, rainforest destruction, turning sewage into cosmetics products for men, and recycling straw in order to turn it into electricity.



He's a green man, too green, and he knows that some of the recycling laws he has taken upon himself are ridiculous. He also realizes he's the only one who adheres to them and therefore they are meaningless, but this man, who is too green, does it for religious reasons almost.



That way, he feels better about himself: By adopting an environmental lifestyle. And don't try talking to him about the fact Israeli mobsters have tapped into the entire recycling system and are profiting from it. He's unavailable for such talk. He has enough on his plate as it is.



The man who is too green believes any trace of information on environmental matters, regardless of the source. If we tell him that we'll all be melting in three months, unless we throw away our air-conditioners and replace them with ice cubes in our living room, he will start spreading this new doctrine in the next conversation he takes part in. Of course, during this conversation he will not allow any matter that is not green to be raised for discussion.



Nothing interests him, the man who is too green, aside from fight for earth, which is becoming increasingly urgent every day, partly because it is indeed becoming more urgent, but mostly because him and his friends, who are all too green, are looking for excitement and wish to surprise themselves all the time.



Cont.