The Environment is cool...

As the United States celebrated Earth Day this weekend, I reflected on how the environment is the new fad. No matter where you go there is someone talking about the environment or how we can take small steps in our lives to help the environment. Academy awards, hybrid cars, floral designs on fashionable hipster clothing, the environment is the new cool.

I for one am excited. Increased awareness and education help define environmentalism not as a left-wing, hippie issue but as something that concerns us all. Everyone should want clean drinking water and pollution free soils. Gas is expensive and we should be pursuing other forms of clean energy. The biggest crisis we face in the coming years will be securing a clean source of energy that is not finite. We have the technology to make clean energy and to make it affordable to all, especially to developing countries. Sadly this is not a priority!

This planet is all we have. Let us not have the environment go the way the Atkins diet went. Keep up the fight!