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oooh ... niiice.

So maybe the slackers had it right after all.

A nice article that touches on some thoughts I've been having for a while. It sticks in my craw a little when I am now just how much these large corporation are doing to 'save the planet' and how much we have to change our lifestyles.

Some of us having been doing this for decades - NOT getting drawn into this unsustainable cycle of greed promoted by these self same companies..

You see, while Alan Greenspan and Countrywide Financial were creating a capitalism of disastrous excess, we were busy working on a more workable model. Not without its indulgences, of course. The exuberance of the dot-com bubble was undoubtedly irrational. But we did pretty well, this little slice of Generation X.

We brought you the Internet, worked on green technology, and filled the ranks of Teach for America. We crossed the color line, ate local produce, and bought secondhand clothing. We lived in smaller spaces, drove smaller cars, and took the subway to work.