1968 revisited?

 I went to a meet-up group today at one of our two remaining independent bookstores. There is a group that meets there every Saturday afternoon to knit and/or crochet. In the course of the conversation one of the other group members who is the same age as I am made a comment about how the last time she had been really interested in simple living, and doing things like knitting and spinning her own yarn (which how the conversation got started--someone is taking a spinning and weaving class) was "back in the 60's when we were hippies"...

Well, she and I were probably the only ones who really qualified for that category since the one other person present in our age bracket (Boomers and older) was definitely and emphatically NOT a hippie and no one else in the group was born before 1975. It made me reflect, though on what she was saying. Perhaps it is just 20/20 hindsight with a dose of maturity tossed in for seasoning, but the core values and beliefs of that time seem to be regenerating in full blown mainstream ways.

Recycling, alternative fuels (more about that in another post--growing grain to fuel vehicles rather than feed people is NOT an acceptable solution to the end of cheap oil....at some point you just have learn to use less of the stuff)organic farming and gardening, low or no toxic paints, walking and cycling as well as using public transportation as a means of primary transportation....these are all ideas I was well acquainted with "back in the day"....

I wrote in a previous post about NYC being one of the greenest cities and that being in large part because people live in small apartments in multi-unit buildings. It is also in part because the walk a lot and use mass transit a lot. If one of the most cosmopolitan, sophisticated cities in the world can also be one of the greenest, there is no reason, given the political will to make it so, the rest of our cities can't follow suit. Same ideas, maybe a different point of view.

Oh, yeah, I'm knitting with only natural fibers--wool, cotton, silk and alpaca so far and recycled fiber too rayon and cotton--and I've begun spinning with a hand spindle--the really old fashioned way!

 
Posted by Deb Hurt, ABR, e-Pro, EcoBroker, TRC on 04/26/2008 11:46 PM   Comments (0)   , , , ,  

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Real Estate Agent: Deb Hurt, ABR, e-Pro, EcoBroker, TRC (Exit Realty of Albuquerque)
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My blog is as much about a philosophy of life and living as it is about real estate as a business. E.F. Shumacher subtitled his book SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL "Economics as if People Mattered" In the real estate industry we realize that people matter and that where they live matters. We now also have a larger responsiblity, I believe, to get them to consider HOW they live. Everyone in the developed world using less energy and resources makes it possible for those who have access to neither to experience a better life and to make the difference between their being able to having a roof overhead or not or for their children to eat or not. 


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