the epitome of a green, sustainable lifestyle or just plain homeless?

excuse me? since when has it been noble to throw up hands in despair at situation and say , “it can’t be changed, so i won’t participate”? i am all for sustainability, reducing waste and resource use, recycling materials, reusing materials, etc. what i apparently don’t understand is how being “freegan” differs from being chronically homeless in any way other than being 5150, which as i’m writing this, it occurs to me that perhaps there is no difference at all.

well there is always the difference of being tragically hip and young on the freegan side.

i guess all the men and women who have been camping under bridges, not working, salvaging discarded items of use, dumpster diving, wearing 2nd/3rd/4th hand clothes, vegetarian (mostly)……they were just ahead of their time. they are seasoned freegans.

i just thought of one other difference. trust funds. as in the homeless seasoned freegans don’t have them. back when i lived in Olywa, we just called them trust fund hippies. never understood the lure of living on someone’s couch (on a good night). that and i CANNOT STAND the smell of dirty, nasty, foul odor that is patchouli.

‘k. i’m done.