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Rick Field is a resident of Fort Greene, Brooklyn and CEO of Rick’s Picks, a pickle company based on the Lower East Side.
What was your green turning point?
When I launched my business and decided to focus on sourcing local produce in season for the pickles.
What has been your smallest lifestyle change?
My office building does not recycle glass. So I take home the empty jars we create doing sampling and rinse them and recycle them from home. It is as much as three cases a week.
What’s something you hope to pass down to your children (and children’s children)?
Respect for the land. Our family owns a piece of land in Central Vermont and we’ve put it in conservation easement so that it is maintained as pristine pastures and forests forever. The only thing that has been stripped from the land is its development rights.
If you had five minutes in the Oval Office, what would you say?
Mr. President, let’s develop a blended strategy of actions that will move the needle to green.
What are your favorite sustainable items in your closet?
I wear clothes long past the point that others would throw them out. I deplore waste.
Rick Field
The Pickle Guy
"Mr. President, let’s develop a blended strategy of actions that will move the needle to green."
What are your favorite sustainable elements of your home?
I love large pickle jars. I use them to re-pickle with brines from other jars and store leftovers.
What’s on your recommended reading list?
Anything by Bill Moyers. His writings provide a sound moral platform for the 21st century.
What keeps you up at night?
Climate change.
What’s your not-so-green guilty pleasure?
If I am sitting in my car waiting for a parking space, I will run the engine if it is cold to keep the heat working.
Which environmental groups and nonprofits get your stamp of approval? National Resources Defense Council, Council on the Environment of New York City
What’s on your wish list?
The criminalization of Styrofoam-peanut use.
If you could snap your fingers and create a green product or service that doesn’t exist yet, what would it be?
I would create a resolution banning stretch limousines, which are a hideous waste of space and gas, and I would outlaw those trucks that are nothing more than a roving mobile billboard.
