In my opening post I mentioned a few scenarios that frum crunchy folks may have experienced, times when you felt like your crunchy tendencies removed you from the chevra. I kind of dislike talking about cloth diapering because it gets annoying to have to justify it to people who think I'm either insane or just gross. Have you ever actually been sneered at for being the weird hippie? Do people ever act as if caring about the environment makes you more "modern" or less frum? And why is that?
For an awful lot of the Orthodox population, these issues are just not on the radar. People have a lot of kids and their husbands work 3 jobs/learn at night/think dishes are women's work, so they use paper plates ALL the time. If the local kosher supermarket sells anything organic or grassfed or otherwise eco-friendly it's it's way expensive compared to the regular cutlets in the next case. Healthy snacks and lunches are a no-go because people think their kids only want to eat what the other kids are eating.