chipping away

My roommates and I have gotten into this awesome habit of putting all of our "A"assignments on the refridgerator (maybe we should have done this a few years ago rather than weeks before graduation).. Anyway, I recently read one of these proudly-posted assignments that my roommate had written, where she uses me as an example of an individual belonging to the 'green movement' that has in the past decade or so sprouted up all over the nation. At the same time, my boyfriend's senior thesis ties in climate change, politics & the green movement. Both my roommate and my boyfriend are poking a bit of satirical fun at the idea that this movement is still based in capitalism, which is a huge issue in and of iteself, and that all these companies are just jumping on the bandwagon to sell some product. She argues that we cannot by ourselves make a difference; that we are the hippies of 2010, we drive to Target and buy tee shirts made in bangladesh with a bright green recycle label, made of cotton that was cultivated with herbicides and pesticides and picked by workers who are making less than 15 cents a day...

Regardless of who we are and who we are not, we are making a difference, and it's starting out pretty small but I am not discouraged. We are chipping away at a consciousness - at an institutional consciousness - and the wheels are turning.