My new campaign: She Should Share Her Eco-Project

So I've been noting lots of cool and curious eco-challenges happening in LA lately, from hardcore garbage collecting to uber-Xtracycling to extreme treecycling. And I noticed a curious trend: I'm only writing about boys!

Why is that? Many many environmentalists are women. And I certainly know lotsa girls greening the blogosphere. Envirowoman just finished her Year One of living the NoNewPlastic pledge, cutting down her plastic use to just 1 lb, 3 oz in 2007 (pic right)! Considering the ubiquity of the stuff, this is a grand achievement indeed.

And lots of women have set big eco-resolutions for 2008 too. Susan Wagner of Friday Style wrote a great post on BlogHer about women taking no shopping pledges in the new year. (Susan, BTW, went on a shopping fast for a month last October and documented her outfits on Flickr; see some of them below)

However, Envirowoman's in the UK, Susan's in Oklahoma, and the other women named are also nowhere near LA. Among Cali girls, I only know about Beth of Fake Plastic Fish and her de-plasticking challenge, which I've already written about, and the NoCal peeps doing The Compact.

Perhaps many enviro-women are doing their green thing gradually without much fanfare, gently tackling all areas of their lives and making incremental challenges as opposed to undertaking the kind of crazy-ish eco-challenge that get attention.

But maybe girls are doing just as many crazy-ish eco-stuff, but are less likely to toot their own horn? Last year, Women's Campaign Forum launched a project called She should Run, encouraging people to nominate women to run for public office. The idea behind the project: While many men step up on their own, women tend to step up after being asked to. Thus, She Should Run encourages women to nominate other women to run for public office.

Maybe I should launch my own project: She Should Share Her Eco-Project.

By this I'm not saying that the aforementioned boys are attention-seeking publicity hounds. I'm just wondering where the girls are at.

So: Where are you girls? What are your crazy eco-resolutions for the new year? Let me know via the comments or email me at greenlagirl@gmail.com. I'll highlight some of them in future posts, thereby bringing some gender equilibrium to Emerald City --

Top photo courtesy of Envirowoman; Bottom photos by Susan Wagner via Flickr

Comments

[tarbubble]

i'm an ex-IE girl now living in the infamous OC, so maybe i qualify as at least "near LA." my main projects are:

continuing to reduce the amount of animal products our household uses (but ohhh i love cheese).

still hunting for the right diesel Suburban to convert to veggie oil. i just refuse to haul my babies in a bike trailer on our loony, SUV-riddled streets. a cyclist got killed not far from our house very recently.

build a coop from scrap wood and start raising chickens for eggs.

build compost bins from scrap wood (have the wood, just need to cut it & do it) and start composting for...

our vegetable garden. we've moved into a rental house and the landlord doesn't care what we do with the yard.

i buy used as much as possible, but when i do buy new i try to buy USA-made, to minimize shipping pollution and energy consumption.

[Jill]

I've started line-drying my laundry:
http://www.pasadenahousewife.com/2007/12/29/back-yard-clothesline/

(Jill from Eye Level Pasadena)