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A few of the trends that I have been reading about in the new year frenzy have me excited. One is the possibility that this will be the year of vegetable! The local food movements, the scares about meat contamination and concerns for health have been combining to prompt more people to look more toward non-meat sources for food. Go veggies!

Another trend is fewer people driving. Here we have the rising cost of gas and (hopefully) some reality of the true costs of gas caused by the BP oil disaster and the ongoing wars. In ZipCar's newsletter they are talking about calculations they have done where "almost half of all 18 to 34-year-old drivers are driving less" and how this number could be even higher if more people had access to alternative transit options. Now how many of these people are willing to move to be closer to alternative transit, or are willing to work in other ways to get these options in place, remains to be seen. But I'm going into 2011 thinking positive.

There's much work to be done, but I feel a movement coming on... and I hope to be a major part of that movement.