Living in History: What are you most aware of?

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[Steve Sherlock]

Rosa, I knew you would get into this book.

There is so much to talk about on this that there is not enough room in a single comment, hence one of the key reasons why I started a whole new blog.

Time is so precious and life so busy it is hard to take the time to stop and smell the roses, never mind to really see the forest for trees (to mix up a couple of good metaphors)...

Enjoy the remainder of the book. I expect that we will have plenty more to talk about (as if we did not have enough already) when you finish.

[Blaine Collins]

Hi Rosa,
What a coincidence. I am also just now reading the World Is Flat - about 3/4 through.

To your question, I think "green" is also history in the making. My friends who know about such things tell me that for many natural resources, e.g. metals, it is becoming more economical to recycle than to mine for raw materials. And we all see the increases in gasoline and energy prices, which is certain to change many aspects of our daily lives.

Could it be that the world will become Lean, Green, and Flat?

[Rosa Say]

I'll be taking you up on your offer Steve, and jump into your comments much more on Tertiary Education! The book is rich with talk-story fodder, and my family has already threatened to take the rest of the CDs away from me because for them "it's summer! Can't you give this stuff a rest?!?"

Blaine, I do think you are right, and that our "greening" is an exceptionally good thing. Environmental protection and conservation has been talked about for a very long time, but current factors (the Triple Convergence? ;-) are forcing it to be part of our mainstream consciousness. The *vegetarians and activists* who have been seen as extremists crying wolf up to now are not so lonely as they once were.

In Hawaii we say Mālama the ‘Āina (stewardship and care of the land) but the short and sweet "Green" does make it much more pervasive and visual.

Two posts older than this one I mentioned the Discovery Channel special on global warming, and one of the most interesting parts of it for me was about new building construction. They spoke of how greener applications incorporated into the design have indeed made it much more economical both in construction AND in long term maintenance. These new buildings are also architecturally stunning: we've gone far, far beyond green construction meaning adding more plants and a solar panel or two.