pop-culture saturation

Do you ever have the experience of never having heard of a topic/person/object before, and then suddenly you hear about it several times in the span of a few days?

Well, I feel like mainstream America is having that experience right now.
The media - both news and pop TV - is saturated with green topics right now!

It's sort of making my head spin; every channel I flip to and every news site I bring up has something about it. This is kind of cool - integrating these kinds of thoughts into the mainstream consciousness will definitely make it easier for the green culture to integrate into the mainstream, which is what has to happen if we are going to affect change.

Some of it irritates me - America's Next Top Model recently did an episode where the girls do an ad for recycling and the girls are living in a "green mansion," but how could it be green when there's tracklighting that's always on and it's housing a bunch of people who only exist to sell us stuff we don't need? - but I digress... some of what's out there is surprising!

The CW website does have a section about being green - they're talking a big game, at least.

The storyline of Fox's Bones last week was about an organic grocer who was murdered and the body hidden in a big compost heap - not the most appetizing of topics, true, but there was a lot of discussion by the characters about organic farming, etc. even though the episode was classic, gooey-gross Bones.

I'm also interested to check out Extreme Makeover Home Edition's episode tomorrow - it's going to Arizona to build a green house on an Indian reservation. Usually, the show is too sappy for me, but I'll have it on in the background so i can hear what sort of green stuff they've done.

And just in case you thought the topic of this blog was original, I just found an entry on TreeHugger about ANTM's "green" tint, and there's a great discussion in the comments.

Anyhow, it's just been on my mind lately about how omnipresent the topic is. Hopefully this will help us to develop good habits... like i was saying in the last post, if we can make being green a subconscious habit rather than something we have to constantly remember to do, maybe we can be successful at it!