I can’t take credit for this one, similarly to my gender neutral pronoun. Though this time, instead of the acclaim being my dad’s, it is my roommate’s, Sienna’s, and - despite its simple genius - I think it happened by accident.
It takes the form of a new expression.
We live in dangerous and changing times; dangerous for many reasons, and changing for just as dangerous reasons. One of these is my second biggest issue: Global Warming.
This summer, I’ve been living in LA, doing my own grocery shopping for the first time in my life, and it’s one of the greatest things that’s happened to me. Our first week living here, we walked down to the local Farmer’s Market and discovered we could buy almost all of our food their (with the exceptions of a few gluttonous indulgences such as tortilla chips and string cheese). Our lifestyle would only take 5.3 planets to support us! (I know it sounds bad, but you take the quiz…)
The point is, green has become a big part of our lifestyle. And it is a new fad. Indeed, hopefully it will be longer lasting than a fad.
Coming back to the simple genius new expression. “Green” is the new “cool”, so when you see something that’s cool, instead, you say “that’s so green!” Of course, you can’t call a Hummer “green” since they’re not even “cool”. (I really hate Hummers.)
