Kermit the frog sang ‘It's not easy being green', but he was wrong.

Rogers Rabbits - the description of your lifestyle and business indicates the modern exploitation economy can be avoided, and that makes you pretty green in my book.
However, adopting a green lifestyle results in many shades of green among those why try.

Your shade is a deep green, and we celebrate that. But we also celebrate any who try.
You raise an important distinction.

Living a green lifestyle is not the same as being politically green.

The Green kaupapa regards a healthy environment as fundamental to human endeavour.

A green lifestyle involves efforts to reduce one's own impact on the planet and is consistent with that kaupapa. Green politics aims to organise our society in ways that endorse long-term survival of this same planet.

Thus, green politics will likely reject social and economic policies - for example - that promote inequality, assign industrial costs to the commons, or increase stress on the
environment.

The reality is few - if any - of us live a truly green lifestyle, whatever that might mean.
I fail to understand why that challenge justifies devaluing the opportunity for voters to support a policy framework that has environmental sustainability at its core.

Ian McLean,
Green Party Tauranga candidate.