Back on track
March 4th 2008 09:17
I’ve been a bit caught up with trying to get my office sorted out over the last couple of days: I bought some book shelves, and now I have the joyful task of putting all the books that have got themselves scattered around the house after our carpet-laying chaos, back where they belong – or where they now belong.
Plus I’ve been building up the stock of books I’m selling on Trade Me and Zillion – check out my blog dedicated to this aspect – and it all takes time.
Nevertheless, I keep my eyes open for interesting green things – or perhaps that should be interesting things green, and noted a couple of items.
Richard Watson’s blog, What’s Next: Top Trends, is a future-looking site, a place where he tries to gauge the latest trends and culture-movements. He’s not long published a book called Future Files, which I’m aiming to get my hands on when our local library decides it needs it, and which looks at things in a more detailed way.
However one of the ten trends he notes in his list for 2008 is Eco-exhaustion. You can read the whole paragraph about it here, but the gist of it is in this extract:
People are getting fed up with being told how to behave, especially from hypocritical and holier than thou politicians and celebrities that are driving a Toyota Prius one minute and stepping onto a private jet the next. None of this is to say that acting on behalf of the environment is a bad thing. It’s simply that in a great many instances this newly found environmental consciousness is nothing more than marketing hype and public relations spin – something green that’s cynically added to products and people to make them appear whiter than white.”
The same sort of trend was evident in retailing a few years ago when Celtic was all the rage.
I'll deal with the other item in a second post.
Plus I’ve been building up the stock of books I’m selling on Trade Me and Zillion – check out my blog dedicated to this aspect – and it all takes time.
Nevertheless, I keep my eyes open for interesting green things – or perhaps that should be interesting things green, and noted a couple of items.
Richard Watson’s blog, What’s Next: Top Trends, is a future-looking site, a place where he tries to gauge the latest trends and culture-movements. He’s not long published a book called Future Files, which I’m aiming to get my hands on when our local library decides it needs it, and which looks at things in a more detailed way.
However one of the ten trends he notes in his list for 2008 is Eco-exhaustion. You can read the whole paragraph about it here, but the gist of it is in this extract:
People are getting fed up with being told how to behave, especially from hypocritical and holier than thou politicians and celebrities that are driving a Toyota Prius one minute and stepping onto a private jet the next. None of this is to say that acting on behalf of the environment is a bad thing. It’s simply that in a great many instances this newly found environmental consciousness is nothing more than marketing hype and public relations spin – something green that’s cynically added to products and people to make them appear whiter than white.”
The same sort of trend was evident in retailing a few years ago when Celtic was all the rage.
I'll deal with the other item in a second post.
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