All That’s Green About Twilight

Fellow Twi-Hards:

In honor of Twilight‘s DVD release today, I just thought I would mention all that’s green about our favorite human/vamp duo since Dracula and Whatsherface.

For starters…

• “Compost is cool!” screams Bella and Edward’s biology teacher as they walk through a greenhouse on a class trip. Green education – love it. (Teach then advises the kids not to eat the compost… Oh, high school.)
• Vampires are vegans.
• The book takes places in Forks, Washington, the rainiest place on Earth, or in America, or something… which means it’s super lush and green!
• Eclipse got the green light from Summit Studios. Its projected release date in June 2010. (I’ll be a college graduate by then. I’ll still be first in line at the box office.)
• Hank Green of the Vlog Brothers serendaed us with the song, “I Am Not Edward Cullen.”
• Robert “Edward Cullen” Pattinson’s clairvoyant sis, Alice, is played by a doll named Ashley Green(e).
• Bella wears a green shirt on her first day of school…?

Alright, you get the idea, right ladies! Twilight is greener than Salazar Slytherin’s robes. Now, who’s coming to FYE to pick up a copy of the DVD with me? You already did. Faster than a vampire on feeding day, aren’t you?

XO, The Green Gamine

Who’s Afraid of a Green Library?

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Yesterday, for those of you who haven’t heard, Amazon unleashed its Kindle 2.0 on the literary world – the green answer to the printed book. It is a well known fact that chunks of the Amazon and the like have been wiped out so as to appease the wannabe wizards and teen vamps who have put the book industry back in business. Though series sales have skyrocketed, paving the way for a new breed of movie adaptations (Twilight anyone?), what price have we paid for the inimitable feel of crisp paper between our fingertips?

The Green Press Initiative conducted a study in 2006 to find out. Thanks to the 4.15 billion books printed that year, the industry left behind a carbon footprint size of 12.4. That’s 12.4 tons of metric waste. Not such an insignificant double digit anymore, huh? And that doesn’t include the daily Times you tend to toss, or those 52 issues of Entertainment Weekly you’ve been saving up from last year.

Seemingly, Amazon has found the alternative. Connected to the Sprint network, the new Kindle can download any of its 230,000 books in less than a minute. It has a longer battery life and a new, streamlined look, which is said to weigh less than the average paperback. With the newly expanded hard drive, you can toss 1,500 books into your handbag or briefcase, offering you more options for your morning commute.