It's difficult to define a decade when it's still so recent. We can already see the fashions, music and attitudes of the 80's and 90's, but try to define the 2000's. It's still hazy, except for one thing. The 2000's for me will always be the decade that we began to seriously realise what we have done to the environment.
There were definite ripples of this attitude as far back as the 60's or 70's, and I remember college friends back in the early 90's, telling me that we would all be underwater by now, but the actual seeds of change did not start to germinate properly until the new millennium began.
One thing that has been a result of this is the new fascination for growing vegetables. For some people, it goes further: finding food for free. Foraging has become fashionable again with a gap that stretches back centuries to when it was necessary. I have jumped on the bandwagon and acquired several books to help me, rambling through the British countryside with a wandering eye, much to the amusement of anyone with me.
There were definite ripples of this attitude as far back as the 60's or 70's, and I remember college friends back in the early 90's, telling me that we would all be underwater by now, but the actual seeds of change did not start to germinate properly until the new millennium began.
One thing that has been a result of this is the new fascination for growing vegetables. For some people, it goes further: finding food for free. Foraging has become fashionable again with a gap that stretches back centuries to when it was necessary. I have jumped on the bandwagon and acquired several books to help me, rambling through the British countryside with a wandering eye, much to the amusement of anyone with me.
