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With so many discussions going on about sustainability, and being involved my own in some classes, seminars and case competitions about sustainability, I can’t help but write at least a blurb about this new so called "awakening". Yes, GREEN is becoming a new hype. We’ve heard about climate change, we know that icebergs are melting somewhere in the arctic, and that Jakarta is becoming hotter than ever, but only recently that it became something "cool" to talk about. The fact that business schools are embracing this concept by opening their own sustainability department makes it more of a significant matter on the table. So does emergence of NGOs like MBA without Borders and consulting companies like Deloitte and PwC establishing their own Sustainability practice. How cool is that?

But really, how much do we know about climate change and the extent of its urgency? I remember last nite’s Mgmt of Change class discussion about terms and gimmicks gave such a different meaning to the issue of climate change. The word "sustainability" gives an impression of a nice to have, it’s noble when you do it, give you an edge - not necessarily a lead -  in the competition kinda of term rather than a sense of urgency. Being green is becoming more of a trend rather than a necessity, which is good in some respects, but really does it make us be more environmental conscious citizens of the world?

I really have no extensive knowledge about this to make an opinion. But I really want to make people more engaged and in-tune with this whole environmental concern. My awesome friends who were obviously way ahead in the game when it comes to understanding this issue have devoted blogs that solely discuss about this whole topic which I find quite fascinating. see this one: http://blog.integr8tif.com/ You’ll find that the author is so passionate about this issue, even his wedding has to be green

Anyways, my day has been wasted by browsing on the net.. better get back to my studies…

OK, so I just checked pics of an Indonesian friend of mine.. well not friend, really.. acquiantance and I was just stunned by the impression he made in his late photos.. Apparently he was very fond of - let me say - his peer male friends. No wonder: the cap, the over rated sense of style, and the hawaian skirt. That explains a lot. Not that I have anything against, you know, gay people. It’s just that I’ve never imagined him being, u know, gay. I just thought he had a weird sense of fashion. Ok, I just spilled my coffee as I’m typing these words. That means, probably, I shouldn’t put him on the spot so much. But I just can’t help being stunned. He had so much to offer as a guy in a traditional sense. And yet,.. hmm.. and you know what, he’s quite a cassanova in that niche, apparently. Pretty impressive, ey?

I don’t know. The world is becoming to crazy. I just think, that men and women should be together, build a family and have monogamous relationship at the same time. I should emphasize that point. Although I’m becoming more casual with the idea of parallel relationships.. but that is to me, valid, only prior to marriage. And the Quran may say a different thing, but that’s only under severe circumstances, right? Anyway,  I’m just… I’m still shocked right now. So it’s true. All the good guys… they’re either taken,.. or they’re gay.