Wendy Laird is a writer and journalist living in Seattle. She's written for numerous newpapers and national magazines, including, I kid you not, Maxim, and for the comedy show Almost Live!
Laird was born in Montreal, from where she was almost immediately whisked away and taken to California, so don't go looking for a funny accent. After an idyllic childhood in the Bay Area, she was rudely uprooted again and taken to Snohomish, Washington, for an excruciating adolescence. She graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in English, and holds a master's from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Shortly after graduating from Northwestern, she returned to Seattle and promptly met her husband, Paul Owen. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband, two children, and two dogs.
I traveled recently, by air, to Vail.Now before you self-styled environmentalists throw a fit, know this: I offset all my travel by trading for credits at Gladropes, my local hemp crafts store and carbon exchange. I found a nice gentleman whom for some reason wanted all my old underwear in exchange for 5,000 gallons of effluence for my personal methane-capture still.Though I had to breathe into a paper bag to keep from hyperventilating every time [...]
A lot has been written recently about eating "locally." It’s an interesting concept; eating food that doesn’t have to travel too far, thereby saving energy. But once again, the Man has set himself up to feel good about something that actually harms our fragile globorb. These “locavores” eat foods from within 100 miles of where they live, as if a truck driving 100 miles doesn’t spew tons of carbon into our atmosphere.I’m [...]
Photo credit: UPI Photo/Phil McCartenEditor's note: Wendy Laird is our resident humor columnist. Remember, folks, it's all in fun…Allow me to begin by saying that the Oscars are a bloated display of lopsided wealth and navel gazing. But I love fashion. There’s nothing that makes me feel as good as donning a well-cut hemp pinafore over a clean, crisp unbleached organic cotton tee, my long kitty-cat earrings just brushing the tops of [...]
Editor's note: Green Options is happy to welcome Wendy Laird, winner of our "The Lighter Side of Green" contest, to the blog.Lately everyone who isn’t Republican has been yammering on about “Carbon Neutrality,” as if that’s a goal we should all be striving for. Puh-leez. Carbon neutrality will do nothing to save our delicate ecoglobe. If we all went carbon-neutral right now, things would just stay the way they are: The polar bears would [...]
