I appreciate your point of view on things–you’re very thoughtful and seem to take your time thinking through what you want to ‘go on the record’ as having said. That may make for less frequent posting, but one of the already emerging trends of 2010 seems to be scaling back on the information we take in and put out.

As for environmental awareness, I agree that this is a major development. Though I do wonder if we’ve too closely associated adverse environmental factors with particular images/symbols. For example, paper is an environmental ‘culprit’ because it requires cutting down trees and then is thrown away. But the potential of a tight recycling system for paper is significant. Meanwhile, we’ve exchanged much of our paper for information displayed on screens. In general, this was probably the right move, but we’re also pretty device happy these days, which means that countless pda’s, phones, etc. will be manufactured and discarded when the latest one hits the market. It seems to me that our consumption habits haven’t really changed–we’ve just exchanged paper for screens. I wrote a few blog posts about an idea I had for a ‘digital conservation movement’ last summer, when I was thinking about what conservation would look like now that we’re “off paper.” Here’s the link to the original post: http://www.newfangled.com/its_time_to_start_a_digital_conservation_movement.

Chris