“You don’t want this event that is supposed to start your life together to come at the expense of the environment or workers in another country,” says Ms. Harrison, 28, who’s wedding in October will use organic food at their celebration, and shuttle their guests in bio-fuelled busses.
This was a very sweet article in the NY Times today; apparently, green is the new white!

And that’s good news for the large-scale catered event coming to a synagogue near you, too. OK so you have to use disposable because they don’t have meat dishes. Make them out of corn! Or potato! And reduce your guilt as well as the crap going into landfills, when you take all your garbage to a compost afterwards.

For our Tu B’Shevat seder we ordered supplies from World Centric - check it out.

And I think it’s another opportunity to put energy where it really makes a difference (ie, don’t sweat the small stuff). So you buy a bagel and they wrap it seventeen times in paper and foil, put it in a bag and give you a 4″ stack of napkins. This is bad, and wasteful, and does add up — but it’s also a pretty minimal compared to the waste that comes from cafeterias, synagogues, weddings, summer camps, where upwards of 300 people are eating together. And the more largescale purchases of sustainable stuff for these big events, the cheaper they’ll start to become for the rest of us.