Thursday, December 13, 2007

Youth voice is strong though subtle

One day my aunt randomly (almost off-handedly) mentioned that I was the reason she recycled. "Me?" I asked. "Yeah. You made me realize it was important to recycle because you always cared about it."

Since then I have noticed that youth often have a bigger impact than they realize. In an article about the first "green" office building in downtown Tampa, the developer described his reasoning to build green as "an epiphany".

At the end of the article, he admits,

"I have three amazing daughters, and of all the things I've done over the
years that have changed the skyline, this was the first time I saw them get
excited about what their dad was doing".

I think his "epiphany" might have been inspired by his daughters.

1 comments:

Greg D'Addario said...

Good post, as always Angeline!