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Enviro-love
If you feel that being green is the necessary criteria for relationships, then you can be considered an ecosexual. It’s the term being used to describe passionate greenies looking for other like-minded individuals. And, now that environmentalism is hot, websites are popping up all over to help ecosexuals find true love.
Tried and true
The granddaddy of the green dating scene is Concerned Singles. Started up in 1984, it advertises itself as the “simple, smart, prudent way” to find your socially conscious, progressive mate who is intelligent and creative while being interested in social justice, gender equity and the environment.
GreenSingles is another veteran, operating since 1985. It’s developed a strong online community for green singles who consider themselves “progressive” but also love the outdoors as well as personal growth. They also bill their site as a place to exchange information and ideas along with finding romance.
Veggies only
The biggest growing sector in the green Internet dating scene is for vegetarians and there several sites that will help you find someone looking to share their carrot juice.
According to Love is Green, love is not blind and it can’t ignore the treatment of “non-human animals.” It can help you find a green partner who is also an animal lover and avoids meat.
One of the newest and most successful in the garden patch is Veggie Love, the sister site to Green Singles. It promises to find you someone to share your veggies with.
VeggieConnection is another website helping vegetarians find love (or at least someone to exchange recipes with). Veggie Romance promises love for fruitarians, vegans, raw food devotees or macrobiotic fans. Veggie Fishing will help you find that special someone who “thinks -- and eats -- the way you do!”
Green and responsible
Started up in 2004, Earth Wise Singles is an online dating service geared towards “green-living and environmentally responsible adults” looking for long-term friendship and romance. You should also be interested in alternative medicines, organic gardening and human rights.
Green-Passions is a free social networking community with a focus on animal rights and the environment. It offers eco-forums, green chats and an email service so you can correspond to Mr or Ms Green.
Human2Human is open to all fun-loving non-smoking ecosexuals, over 25, searching for that “true human connection.”
Bring your own mug
If you’re leery of online dating you may enjoy the informal events held with Green Drinks International. This organization attracts a lively mixture of people from all walks of life working in some environmental capacity or another. It’s fairly relaxed, all you have to do is show up, bring a friend along and show you are interested in green. Check their website for a chapter near you.
Green or not, all you need is love.
Anne Colvey is a free lance journalist in Montreal who loves her partner even though he’s not very green.
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