Boomers: Let's Start a Slow Green Movement like the Slow Food Movement

   

We are nearly at the environmental tipping point. And with that knowledge, each person can change her or his everyday habits. One simple thing is to turn off your computer each night. I hate to do this, because I get impatient the next morning waiting for it to reboot. But very simple things like this may slow the tilt to the edge and give us time to reboot our economy making it green.

         

Let's have a Slow Green movement. while we are learning to slow down our eating habits and rebuild our community connections, we need to relearn an overall slower pace of life--earth pace I call it. We Boomers can make a significant contribution just by finding ways to go slow green . More on that later. 

More info:

Are you Carbon Intense?   Read the  Exhausted Earth blog.

Comments

[savvygray]

You have my vote for a Slow Green Movement. One of the precepts of Slow Food is sustainability and what needs more help in that department than our environment? Besides, we gray-heads do "slow" very well. After the "back to nature" movements we started in the Sixties, our generation dropped the ball and elected some of worst enemies to that cause. Shouldn't we now take the lead? Join me at thegraywave.com.

[Virginia]

I agree--thegreywave.com. We certainly were in the forefront of the environmental movement. Not all of us, however elected the enemies of the earth, people...etc. But now whether we like it or not WE ARE ALL riding our same mothership Planet Earthship. Just one action a day by 78,000,000 people would have a great impact.

And I think we have to be willing to be weird again. I have two dear friends who were called The Butterfly Ladies, in a very derisive tone by someone--suggesting that you certainly didn't want to be like them. Wow! if I could do half of what they do--low flow toilets, grow 95% own food on 50x110' lots, bike around town for most transportation...I'd sign up to be a Butterfly Lady in a heartbeat.

Here's to a Slow Green Movement!