Greenlist: Extreme lifestyles

>> Former ACLU media director becomes Silver Lake's bag lady. "Ann Bradley, 54, stands outside the entrance to the Silver Lake Farmers Market, holding a sign that reads: Please Bring Your Own Bag.... Her sign seems to provoke an almost immediate internal dialogue from those who pass."

>> A hard-core philanthropist living on Social Security. "Travel company operator Hal Taussig buys his clothes from thrift shops, resoles his shoes and reads magazines for free at the public library."

>> An all-CFL Xmas. "Donna Hoffman, an ardent environmentalist who lives in Austin, Tex., came up with an unlikely gift for each member of her family: an energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulb."

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