Age of Aquarius?
I have been at times identified as a cynic. I get squirmy at the end of my yoga class (yes a cynic who practices yoga) when we are asked to get all “thankful” and introspective in public. My yoga teacher started talking earlier this year about the coming of the “Age of Aquarius,” an alignment of the stars and planets, indicating that a massive shift in our world is coming, etc.
While I don’t particularly buy that scenario, over the last year I have been shocked how much IS changing. Perhaps for the better. A new promising president, and all that. I am a fan of his.
But at another level, attitudes are changing in this country around our impact in the world, the insanity of our culture of waste, teaching and projecting optimism to our children’s futures through responsible use of what we have.
It feels like the 70’s all over again, except that this time, there is more power, knowledge and desperation behind it.
In my industry, architecture, it seems like we woke up this year, and became green, seriously. The cynic in me thought it was merely smart positioning in this economy. But now, about half of us seem to have awakened to understand how interrelated we are.
What was a new idea last year seems obvious this year.
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