I confess: I am a catalog junkie. I'm addicted to my daily fix and cutting back—even to save a few trees—won't be easy.

Just because Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter drives an SUV doesn't mean he isn't at least thinking green. After all, he oversaw the magazine's first-ever green issue, on stands next week. In the table of contents: an essay by Al Gore (still rocking the enviro tip with his climate change lecture series, documentary, and upcoming book) and glossy profiles of folks like Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Nobel Prize-winning tree planter Wangari Muta Maathai. Also included is a "green guide" that the mag says offers up "50 simple things you can do in your daily life to help save the planet."