Envirophoria: A state of well-being or happiness due to one’s improvement of the environment directly or improving one’s envirohuman impact as a means of reducing negative impact on the environment at large.

Can also be felt by thinking about or seeing someone else improving his envirohuman impact.

Greenbean: Someone who is committed to eating foods that are produced in an environmentally-friendly manner. Typically, this means organic, free-trade, and/or locally grown foods. Being a greenbean is great!

Note: To differentiate greenbean from the original word for the popular vegetable, green bean, we’ve joined them without the space into “greenbean”.

Because the green movement is catching on more and more, language to better describe the movement and its actors and facets is also growing. Therefore, we’ll be using terms that may be new to you (and may even be new to us). So as a housekeeping measure, we’ll be trying to put definitions down for you so that everyone is working from the same dictionary of definitions.