Articles by Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan
Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan is Grist's "Greenie Pig" -- weathering all manner of inconvenience and insult in the name of forging a more eco-friendly life. She is a freelance writer and special projects editor at Backpacker magazine. Her writing has also appeared in 5280 (Denver's city magazine), Women's Adventure, and Spry.
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The Greenie Pig is on a (carbon) diet
I’ve become quite the calorie-counter lately. With the holiday season upon us, I’m really tightening my belt, carefully calculating the number of calories I’d consume from all kinds of daily […]
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Greenie Pig on ‘shrooms: A trip into wild-food foraging
Photo: Elisabeth Kwak-HefferanFarm to table? Please, so 2009. Forest to table is where it’s at right now. And while foraging one’s own nettles, berries, or chestnuts (or paying top dollar […]
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The Greenie Pig gets religion on global warming
Forgive me, Earth, for I have sinned. You see, a dear childhood friend of my boyfriend’s got married last Saturday. Our attendance was a foregone conclusion — there was no […]
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Jam on it: Uncanny adventures in food preservation
The Greenie Pig gets over her fear of botulism and partakes in some serious home economics.
