Living Green - Hartford Currant

When Barry and Kate Harrison Muchnick, students at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, married last year, they held the wedding in the Hudson River Valley, between the two families, to minimize carbon emissions. (MARK MIRKO / March 14, 2008)

By STEVE GRANT ■ Courant Staff Writer
March 30, 2008
Living Green

Steve grant was kind enough to include us in an article about green living at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. My husband Barry's biodiesel truck also made it into the picture. :)

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Going Green on Your Wedding Day - MSNBC Video

See MSNBC's coverage of green weddings "Going Green on Your Wedding Day"-featuring Joshua Houdek and Kristi Papenfuss!

With This Offset, I Thee Wed - Waste News

With This Offset, I Thee Wed is an article by Joe Truinl that ran in Waste News and featured Joshua Houdek and Kristi Papenfuss. One way to be green on your big day is to minimize your impact on climate change by reducing and offsetting the carbon emissions of your event.

Green Weddings and a Funeral - Five

In Issue Fifteen of Five Magazine (the one with Pearl Jam on the cover pictured above), Debbie Mack featured our wedding in an article called Green Weddings and a Funeral. While this article also has a few inaccuracies (I wore a refashioned dress made of regular silk and donated it Brides Against Breast Cancer after the wedding), it has a rather - well - unique perspective on the issue.

How Green Was My Wedding - NY Times

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Organic wedding bells will ring out in a scenic trail area for Kate Harrison and Barry Muchnick.
Photo credit: C. M. Glover for The New York Time

Last year my husband and I were featured in the New York Times article How Green Was My Wedding. This was one of the first large articles on green weddings and made quite a splash. With the exception of a few minor inaccuracies (e.g. we were married at Catrock - not Castle Rock) Mia Navarro did a very good job of covering the why and how of green weddings. It was great to be able to contribute to her piece.

Green Weddings That Don't Cost the Earth

Green Weddings That Don’t Cost the Earth By Carol Reed-Jones (1996) is a small volume printed on rough recycled paper with soy-based ink. This book was one of the first of its kind and is very DIY die-hard - sporting tips on where to get pens for handwriting invitations and good recipes for baking your own vegan wedding cake. Certainly not for everyone, but a great read for "the barefoot hippy nut berries," as my mother would say.

Eco-Chic

Eco-Chic by Emily Elizabeth Anderson (2007) is the most current book on the market and offers number of options that were not available just a few years ago, like bamboo fiber clothing. It is organized by the "Three R" categories: reduce, reuse and recycle and offers many good green wedding planning ideas and resources.

Organic Weddings

 As the title implies, Organic Weddings: Balancing Ecology, Style, and Tradition focuses on the atmosphere of a green wedding. It has a lot of good information, but is most interesting because it offers a multitude of expect interviews, couples’ stories, and issue sidebars.