Aug. 21, #FollowFriday
I've had a lot of fun doing my themed #FollowFriday posts the last few weeks, so I thought I'd do some of my green friends. I apparently know too many, though, so I might do more next week. Damn hippies. ;-)Fortunately, I already did @socialpyramid a few weeks ago, so that made it a little easier to narrow my list down to five for this week.@greenbiztweets: Hugh Byrne is a great guy. Knows his stuff and comes at the whole environmental news thing from an interesting angle - business. It's an important topic, too, because industry, as a whole, isn't going to find being green to be a priority until it makes sense for their bottom line. Interesting tweets, diggs, stumbles, the whole shebang.@stephhicks: Steph is an environmental lawyer who now manages five blogs (is that all? C'mon, Steph, you can do better than that!), takes care of her passel of kidlets and still finds time to run. And cook. Stop it, Steph, you're making the rest of us look bad. I keep an eye out for her tweets, because I always know I'll find something interesting about environmental issues.@jerryjamesstone: Jerry blogs here, there and everywhere, including a site called TreeHugger.com. And he lives in San Francisco. I think all that means he's legally required to hover 3 inches above the grass when he walks, so he doesn't kill even a single blade. If you follow him, you'll find cool green stuff, plus some really odd, news of the weird-type things he's come across.@thewordisberry: Sara Ost is one cool mama. Editor-in-chief of ecosalon.com, she's a sassy little frassy (OK, I cribbed that from her Twitter bio, and admit that I have only a vague idea what that means, but it sounds great). Her tweets are imbued with a wry humor while still managing to be informative. For example, did you know that mascara could smell like crushed aspirin tastes? Me neither.@derekmarkham: I pretty much know when I see Derek's avatar in my Twitter stream that it's going to be a tidbit about the environment, a retweet of someone else's tweet about the environment or some cool photos relating to the environment. He can also tweet one-handed, which can be quite difficult.As usual, if you have any suggestions for folks I should be following, please tell me your recommendations in the comments below. Thanks!