Going green goes brown

This brown lawn is actually green!

Recent droughts have turned green lawns brown. But don't worry, they're actually green. What? Good heavens, I've really gone off the deep end this time, right? Really digging for this one, right? You think? Not so fast, my peeps. Going brown means going green in a drought, doesn't it? It means conserving water, right? Not only that, there are plenty of other browns that are actually green. The browns in your compost for instance.

Brown balances compost power.

Yin Yang, etc. etc. Without the brown ingredients, compost is just a big pile of decayed, wet mush. You have to mix it up a bit. Yup, compost is useless with those dried leaves and other brown matter.

Brown bagging it can be green.

There is a train of thought that suggests using brown paper lunch bags may be greener than those re-usable plastic containers. After all, plastic manufacturing is not exactly green, is it? And at least those brown bags can be recycled or composted. I guess grandma knew what she was doing after all, didn't she?

Brown University goes green.

“Brown is Green” is the slogan of a Brown University green initiative to promote and encourage green events. And I thought this was my idea. Turns out, great minds really do think alike.

Brown and Green is a great UK food store.

Some of my readers are from the UK. Maybe they even frequent Brown and Green, a food store specializing in local and sustainable food. That's certainly a green thing, isn't it?

Brown isn't the only green, either.

In fact, green comes in many colors. I bet you can think of a few yourself. Re-usable shopping bags, for instance. They come in beautiful multicolored prints, don't they? They're not all green. And yet, yes they are.

Turns out a greener planet comes in all colors. Who knew?