community

In his essay, The challenge to environmentalism, Bill McKibben writes,

“The average shopper at a farmer’s market has ten times as many conversations as the average shopper at a supermarket—that order of magnitude is a sign of the world we might be able to build, of the pleasures we might be able to substitute for stuff. I predict that environmentalism will find itself increasingly interested in promoting this kind of reconnection: that ‘wilderness,’ since Muir the animating force of environmentalism, will become relatively less important than ‘community.’”

I agree with this statement 100 percent. For me, sustainability has much more to do with a sense of interconnectivity between people and the world we live in. This is why I think that the green movement in popular culture is a good thing – it allows people to make that first connection between their everyday life and sustainability in easy and fun ways that then hopefully will serve as a starting point for bigger changes.

(p.s. - sorry I haven't been posting a lot! My internet access is very limited.)