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03-25-2010, 03:53 PM
'Eco-sex' asks: How green is your love life?
If an ecologically sustainable life between the sheets hasn't crossed your mind, you're still a 'total environmental neophyte,' author says.
By Jill Serjeant, Reuters
Tue, Mar 23 2010 at 10:02 AM EST
Read more: BOOKS, HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING
LOS ANGELES — You drive a hybrid, eat organic, and are passionate about recycling. But how green is your love life?
Think about those lovely Valentine's Day roses and the environmental costs of growing them and the carbon miles involved in flying them in from faraway lands.
And what about used condoms, tossed into the toilet and making their way into sewers that perhaps pollute the ocean?
If an ecologically sustainable life between the sheets hasn't crossed your mind, you're still a "total environmental neophyte," according to author Stefanie Iris Weiss.
But help is on the way with Weiss's new handbook Eco-Sex, which leaves no stone unturned in its mission to bring the bedroom front and center into the battle to save the planet.
"I have always wanted to write a sex book. I am a very committed greenie, and I have been a vegetarian for 20 years. I saw a gap in the market and I couldn't believe no one had written about this topic," Weiss, 38, told Reuters.
"I think green sex is having its moment right now. I think it is the next big thing in green. People are realizing that their everyday, most intimate habits, are deeply connected to this horrible crisis we are in," she said.
Eco-Sex will land on retail bookshelves on March 31 by Ten Speed Press.
From hand-cranked sex toys (and Web sites where old battery-driven devices can be recycled) to healthy, eco-friendly underwear (bamboo) and dating sites for ecological warriors, Eco-Sex aims to show readers how to reduce the carbon footprint of their love life — and have fun doing it.
Wouldn't celibacy be the ultimate "green" sex decision? :cool:
Mother Nature network (http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/eco-sex-asks-how-green-is-your-love-life#)
If an ecologically sustainable life between the sheets hasn't crossed your mind, you're still a 'total environmental neophyte,' author says.
By Jill Serjeant, Reuters
Tue, Mar 23 2010 at 10:02 AM EST
Read more: BOOKS, HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING
LOS ANGELES — You drive a hybrid, eat organic, and are passionate about recycling. But how green is your love life?
Think about those lovely Valentine's Day roses and the environmental costs of growing them and the carbon miles involved in flying them in from faraway lands.
And what about used condoms, tossed into the toilet and making their way into sewers that perhaps pollute the ocean?
If an ecologically sustainable life between the sheets hasn't crossed your mind, you're still a "total environmental neophyte," according to author Stefanie Iris Weiss.
But help is on the way with Weiss's new handbook Eco-Sex, which leaves no stone unturned in its mission to bring the bedroom front and center into the battle to save the planet.
"I have always wanted to write a sex book. I am a very committed greenie, and I have been a vegetarian for 20 years. I saw a gap in the market and I couldn't believe no one had written about this topic," Weiss, 38, told Reuters.
"I think green sex is having its moment right now. I think it is the next big thing in green. People are realizing that their everyday, most intimate habits, are deeply connected to this horrible crisis we are in," she said.
Eco-Sex will land on retail bookshelves on March 31 by Ten Speed Press.
From hand-cranked sex toys (and Web sites where old battery-driven devices can be recycled) to healthy, eco-friendly underwear (bamboo) and dating sites for ecological warriors, Eco-Sex aims to show readers how to reduce the carbon footprint of their love life — and have fun doing it.
Wouldn't celibacy be the ultimate "green" sex decision? :cool:
Mother Nature network (http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/eco-sex-asks-how-green-is-your-love-life#)