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Jon from blankblank pointed us to this site.
2007 marks a tipping point. You have felt it, we all have felt it.
Now we have to go out and relearn how things are done.
Today you have a chance, because when the world changes opportunities form.
The question is, Are you going to be there to make something of them?
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1 wburg // Apr 4, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Speaking of ideas catching on, did you see this story in the Bee? I liked this project too, and hope that he can give the bungalows on his property to some of the vacant lots in Oak Park just to the south.
http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/149029.html
2 Steve Kempster // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Imagine, for us Gen Xers, how crazy it would be to time-warp back to 1993, a time when organic produce consisted of one misplaced apple bin in the supermarket and eco-living was all about putting a Peet’s closer to work. We have really come a long ways.
Sampling from the thread on capitalism, our collective push to become altruistically opportunistic may well stymie (at last!) the pavers, the bomb makers, the railroad barons of our day.
3 wburg // Apr 10, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I dunno, I’d call myself a Gen-Xer (born in 1969, roughly the middle of the GenX age cohort), in 1993 “organic produce” here in Sac already meant the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op, and the punkhouse where I lived supplemented Co-Op trips with our own food-conspiracy group who group-ordered various vegan/organic products. There wasn’t a Peet’s anywhere around Sacramento, but I walked to Capitol Garage and No Jive Java.
The early nineties were part of the second wave of “greenwashing,” following the initial natural-foods movement that the boomers brought in during the early seventies, where industry realizes there is money in promoting a green image (often not backed up by substance) because it’s fashionable–a trend that is starting to return.
Maybe it’s just a norcal thing: I saw this stuff all over the place in the late 80s/early 90s when us “genXers” were still li’l sprouts, especially in the punk scene. Food Not Bombs benefits and meals, the “Soy Not Oi!” cookbook, renegade vegan punk potlucks at the punkhouse and a pot of vegan chili for the touring band, bike-power efforts (Sacramento had a Critical Mass and a “free bike library” in the early 90s) and so on, here in Sacramento and Arcata and Berkeley and so on…but then again, punks tend to be ahead of the curve on this sort of thing: heck, I was already sick of Green Day in 1990.
4 Levi // Apr 11, 2007 at 2:02 am
Bill,
Great point. Things are as I think you are saying cyclical and there is always a new face on an old show going on.
I just hope that what is changing this time around is that people will catch the urgency of the situation.
And that this will not be another fad but a change of strategy overall.
The earth can only sustain so much life and we are not exactly treading lightly as a whole. I know we have a long way to go but its nice to see something happening….
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