Environmentalists need to "walk the walk"

 
Biologist by training and activist by choice, writer Janisse Ray calls on all self-described environmentalists to take stock of their own excesses and start learning to walk the walk.
 

In this bully pulpit column for Orion magazine, Ray takes an honest look at some of her own incongruent behavior—like flying across the country to a huge gathering of land-preservationists—and offers examples of true eco-warriors who have given up convenience for a more conscious lifestyle.
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