Y'know, if you cut back on water use then your local government is just going to raise taxes to cover the budget shortfall.

Weaver95: Y'know, if you cut back on water use then your local government is just going to raise taxes to cover the budget shortfall.

Coming from a country that's been going through a stupidly insane drought, I can tell you it's not always a matter of money.

RTFA, lazy submitter. The group coined the name "EcoMom" not the reporter

Yeah, buying reusable grocery bags doesn't do diddly shiat if you use them to house your bottled water for the ride home. As for the SUV thing, I blame ford.

BEWARE THE SMUG!!!!

FTFA: Members of the EcoMom Alliance "are fighting a values battle,"

Oh thank Jeebus. I feel a lot better already.

Subby fails miserably.

RTFA. It's about guilty WASPs trying to minimize the ecological impact of their existance.

Which is a damn sight better than them getting together to launch crusades against potentially hazardous playstructure design.

Is it just me, or does anyone else have an almost overwhelming urge to pistol whip anyone who calls herself an "EcoMom?"

Nothing more than a bunch of revamped Koffee-Klatsch-Kunts.

Until the green movement saves people money and is easy, it's an uphill battle.

EMILF?

Mach10: Which is a damn sight better than them getting together to launch crusades against potentially hazardous playstructure design.

Just wait. The self righteousness of these people knows no bounds. They'll start the "For The Children" chant about something soon enough.

Just another bunch of twats, yakking away while sandwiches go unmade...

Nothing to see here.

Nothing like white, middle-class guilt to rouse the soccer moms of the world into committees(sp? stupid non-spellcheck browser).

Yup, pretty much what I expected. All that's missing are a flock of adopted brown kids, a Hillary '08 sign and a Mexican Nanny to throw out the wine bottles.

"The truth is, we're not living very naturally," said Linda Buzzell, a therapist in Santa Barbara who publishes the quarterly EcoTherapy News and often holds sessions in her backyard permaculture food forest. "We're in our cars, staring at the computer screen, separated most of the day from the people we love."

My grandmother, born on a farm in the late 1800s, told me all about "living naturally": Dawn to dusk toil, broiling in the Summer and freezing in the Winter, keeping the animals fed and free of disease, the men working all day long in the fields while the women cooked and washed and cleaned continually, hoping most of her children would survive into adulthood. The good old days of living a natural life close to the land pretty much sucked in most respects. The only thing she thought was better about that time was the taste of the food, mostly because it was extremely fresh.

Aarontology: Mach10: Which is a damn sight better than them getting together to launch crusades against potentially hazardous playstructure design.

Just wait. The self righteousness of these people knows no bounds. They'll start the "For The Children" chant about something soon enough.

It's already happened...why do you think they don't use chemically treated wood in playground equipment anymore?

I'm sure they're planning new laws to enact to validate their happy hour in home meetings.

1. Force others to adhere to their flawed, self-serving hypocritical ideology
2. Choose groups who are offended by newly deemd non-PC pronouns. How about those poor Balkans? Neo-capitalists, nah, too Red State.

Bottled mineral water.

Yeah, that's in no way taxing the environment by producing waste and burning oil to transport water (H2O) from some shiathole in Italy to your McMansion.

/Bikes to work

The women gathered in the airy living room, wine poured and pleasantries exchanged. In no time, the conversation turned lively - not about the literary merits of Geraldine Brooks or Cormac McCarthy but the pitfalls of antibacterial hand sanitizers and how to retool the laundry using only cold water and biodegradable detergent during non-prime-time energy hours (after 7 p.m.).

That's lively conversation?

I was thinking more along the lines of what your favourite dildo is and what your opinion is on the "Dirty Sanchez"

amazing_live_seamonkeys: Yup, pretty much what I expected. All that's missing are a flock of adopted brown kids, a Hillary '08 sign and a Mexican Nanny to throw out the wine bottles.

I'd also wager the husband of nearly every one of them is fooling around behind their back, likely with someone else in that room.

Yup, pretty much what I expected. All that's missing are a flock of adopted brown kids, a Hillary '08 sign and a Mexican Nanny to throw out the wine bottles.


Don't forget the Che Guevara portrait on a Cuban flag.

Those hypocrites! They shouldn't be concerned about the environment at all! They just continue using as much natural resources as possible. How dare they try to make a difference, even in small ways.

Nice picture of them gathered around the table with a bottle of wine and a bottle of San Pelligrino. Here's a tip to help them shrink their carbon footprint: don't have you farking water shipped to you from Italy.

You know, I'm all for ecological awareness, but I have to say pretty much any time a bunch of moms gets together to do anything it ends up being annoying as all fark. I was I didn't feel this way, but I do. This is one of many reasons I've never thought of 'mommyhood' as something I wanted, I was 100% certain if had to socialize with other mommies I would kill myself in a spectacularly horrible fashion that took as many of them down with me as I could. There is something about all that soppy self-congratulatory mommy-speak that bores its way into my brain much like a dentists drill into your tooth- you hear a terrible whining keening noise and suddenly the world is full of pain.

I'm sure each of those "eco-Moms" wastes more resources in a day than an entire third world village.

I have a feeling their definition of "sacrifice" is something the rest of us take for granted every day.

amazing_live_seamonkeys: Yup, pretty much what I expected. All that's missing are a flock of adopted brown kids, a Hillary '08 sign and a Mexican Nanny to throw out the wine bottles.

hillary? do they look poor? they have to be republicans


as for the idea, it seems ok, but the SUV thing mentioned in the headline is right. if you have 2 kids, you need a Suburban, dammit!!!

/or, like my neighbor, a Suburban and a Yukon Denali
//the empty nester's across the street have an Infiniti Nissan Armada. And an SC430. and a DTS, and a Viper. and an Excursion
///jealous

MILFs W/pics nude and I might OK would care . other wise I dont.

ecodorks, green weenies, ecoweasels... usually hyocrits in our neighborhood. Use more chemicals and generate more garbage than Monsanto and Walmart.


I hope they begin using green magnetic ribbons on thier cars so I know which ones to key at the grocery store.

True story.

I pick up one of my kids at school yesterday with my father. We walk by a row of no less than six V8 SUVs with moms piling out to pick up Caitlyn and Bryson. I ask my dad, "How many kids do you think you can fit in one of those Excursions?"
He says, "14. I tried it once."
I say, "You sure? I'd think you could stack them up slave-ship style and get a solid two-dozen."
"Yeah, I tried that, but they started smothering each other. 14 is the most I could do."

Fr._Peter_Fitznuggly: Nice picture of them gathered around the table with a bottle of wine and a bottle of San Pelligrino. Here's a tip to help them shrink their carbon footprint: don't have you farking water shipped to you from Italy.

And after drinking the wine, they drive home.

netcentric: ecodorks, green weenies, ecoweasels... usually hyocrits in our neighborhood. Use more chemicals and generate more garbage than Monsanto and Walmart.


I hope they begin using green magnetic ribbons on thier cars so I know which ones to key at the grocery store.

Just go to the Whole Foods parking lot and key every SUV you see. It'll be more efficient than looking for the eco-ribbons.

ExJerseyGirl: Those hypocrites! They shouldn't be concerned about the environment at all! They just continue using as much natural resources as possible. How dare they try to make a difference, even in small ways.

While I'm all about ordering a Diet Coke with my Big Mac, I think you're missing the inherent point of their joke.

If they were really "eco" they wouldn't have had kids in the first place.

/eco? emo? eco?

jjorsett: "The truth is, we're not living very naturally," said Linda Buzzell, a therapist in Santa Barbara who publishes the quarterly EcoTherapy News and often holds sessions in her backyard permaculture food forest. "We're in our cars, staring at the computer screen, separated most of the day from the people we love."

My grandmother, born on a farm in the late 1800s, told me all about "living naturally": Dawn to dusk toil, broiling in the Summer and freezing in the Winter, keeping the animals fed and free of disease, the men working all day long in the fields while the women cooked and washed and cleaned continually, hoping most of her children would survive into adulthood. The good old days of living a natural life close to the land pretty much sucked in most respects. The only thing she thought was better about that time was the taste of the food, mostly because it was extremely fresh.

FTW

While I agree this group sounds ridiculous, I did learn a new term. Ecoanxiety. Interesting.

FTFA: Move over, Tupperware. The EcoMom party has arrived, with its ever-expanding "to do" list that includes preparing waste-free school lunches; lobbying for green building codes; transforming oneself into a "locovore," eating locally grown food; and remembering not to idle the car when picking up children from school (if one must drive). Here, the small talk is about the volatile compounds emitted by dry-erase markers at school.


Somebody needs a hobby.

This is all stuff people should've been doing for a long time. I remember them teaching us about conservation in 6th grade, back in 1991. The fact that people still are making a big fricking deal out of this and now being proud about how ecologically minded they are is ridiculous. Good tagline Subby

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They're rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

The single most destructive thing you can do to the Earth is to hatch another American child. You can teach them all the damn recycling you want, all it takes is for one of your ne'er-do-well kids to start a 500,000-acre forest fire or grow up to pilot the next Exxon Valdez, or worse yet, become one of those wacko fundy "quiverfull" jerks who think they have a God-given duty to overpopulate the earth, and they will have undone everything you and everyone you have met in your entire life has ever done as far as "saving the Earth."

Wanna save the Earth? STOP MAKING MORE HUMANS. Once they're out of the cooch, it's already far too late.

And don't give me the old "what if MY snowflake is the one who grows up to SOLVE global warming" crap. The odds of your kid getting a graduate degree are slightly less than the odds they'll do time in jail.

As the child of hippies who was raised with cloth diapers, breastfeeding, homegrown organic vegetables, and goat's milk...I now see these people who buy teeny tiny bottles of organic lotion for $20 and things like handmade hemp blouses from Nepal that cost $75 and cans of organic soup for $4 and it somehow really harshes my mellow. In fact, I would like to punch them in the face. Irrational, psycho, perhaps but that's the way I feel.

I suppose it's nice they're doing something for the environment, but shiat, why do these stuck-up, know-it-alls who sweat money have to take over everything and act like they just discovered it? My mom was composting and recycling over 30 years ago. I feel I have more in common with Russian peasants from 100 years ago than these "eco-moms".

fark 'em and their blogs and their trendy yoga classes and overpriced crap and they way they breathlessly natter on and pat themselves on the back.

/grouch

jjorsett: "The truth is, we're not living very naturally," said Linda Buzzell, a therapist in Santa Barbara who publishes the quarterly EcoTherapy News and often holds sessions in her backyard permaculture food forest. "We're in our cars, staring at the computer screen, separated most of the day from the people we love."

/facepalm

TheTurtle: They're rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

The single most destructive thing you can do to the Earth is to hatch another American child. You can teach them all the damn recycling you want, all it takes is for one of your ne'er-do-well kids to start a 500,000-acre forest fire or grow up to pilot the next Exxon Valdez, or worse yet, become one of those wacko fundy "quiverfull" jerks who think they have a God-given duty to overpopulate the earth, and they will have undone everything you and everyone you have met in your entire life has ever done as far as "saving the Earth."

Wanna save the Earth? STOP MAKING MORE HUMANS. Once they're out of the cooch, it's already far too late.

And don't give me the old "what if MY snowflake is the one who grows up to SOLVE global warming" crap. The odds of your kid getting a graduate degree are slightly less than the odds they'll do time in jail.

you might want to redirect your rant to India and China. you know, individual nations with 4 times the population of the US.

/the US has what, a 1% pop growth rate?

"Ecomom" is an oxymoron. Every kid you grunt out will have a much larger environmental impact than you recycling your wine bottles. Simple math...yet most people will go to extreme measures to avoid the conclusion.

Makes about as much sense as feeding those starving Africans.

Okay, am I hallucinating or is that a stripper pole in the middle of this spacious, airy parlor?

Fibber McLiarson: jjorsett: "The truth is, we're not living very naturally," said Linda Buzzell, a therapist in Santa Barbara who publishes the quarterly EcoTherapy News and often holds sessions in her backyard permaculture food forest. "We're in our cars, staring at the computer screen, separated most of the day from the people we love."

/facepalm

Yeah, no shiat. Her water bill must be enormous. Irresponsible water use in southern California is just about the *least* ecological thing to do. Everybody's water rates go up here because of fools like her.

TheTurtle: or worse yet, become one of those wacko fundy "quiverfull" jerks who think they have a God-given duty to overpopulate the earth, and they will have undone everything you and everyone you have met in your entire life has ever done as far as "saving the Earth."

Wanna save the Earth? STOP MAKING MORE HUMANS. Once they're out of the cooch, it's already far too late.



Bwhaaa haaa haaa!

They should build home generators powered by their little Spencers and Sophies running on hamster-wheel-type mechanisms.

There, America, I just solved your energy and child obesity problems in one fell swoop.

st.theresa: Okay, am I hallucinating or is that a stripper pole in the middle of this spacious, airy parlor?

I certainly hope so.

st.theresa: Okay, am I hallucinating or is that a stripper pole in the middle of this spacious, airy parlor?

You're hallucinating.

janks369:
you might want to redirect your rant to India and China. you know, individual nations with 4 times the population of the US.

/the US has what, a 1% pop growth rate?

Yeah, but the impact of a typical Murkin is way-ass greater than your typical third-worlder, because some guy in Calcutta living hand-to-mouth isn't driving around in an H3 and throwing away drink boxes. He can't afford them.