Thank you for writing such a thoughtful review of Big Green Purse. I’d like to invite you to write a guest post for my blog on plastics. It would be especially useful to let people know what you’re doing to eliminate plastics from your life. If you have a previous post and just want to point me there, I’d be happy to publish it at biggreenpurse.com, and link back to your site. I also appreciate the comments of others. It gives me a perspective that I might otherwise not get. I have to say, regarding the cover — what one of your commenters calls the “dress/purse thing” — the design was really intended to be sort of tongue-in-cheek (I have very few dresses myself!). But it was also intended to appeal to the millions of women out there who, unlike those who read your blog, probably never think about the connection between what they buy and the impact it has on the planet. Again, thanks for actually reading the book all the way through! With much appreciation for all your good work, Diane MacEachern

I think we’ll look back both fondly and ruefully to this period as one in which we could literally have anything we wanted in any quantity while at the same time we did not hold back.

We will look back ruefully because I believe the time is soon approaching when there will be mandatory restrictions on what we can do/buy (carbon limits) along with “natural” restrictions like we are seeing even now that are due to a lack of the item (collapse of the Pacific salmon fisheries, etc.)

That there are those of us who are consciously scaling back pales in comparison to the number who consume heedlessly and the number who long to do so, but what we do isn’t pointless: I want to be able to look my grandchildren in the eye and tell them I played a minimal part of the problem and was active in going against the tenor of the times.