Since the first Earth Day was celebrated as an "environmental teach-in" on April 22, 1970, a whole new vocabulary has entered the English language. The Texas-based Global Language Monitor has determined the top new words and new 'senses' of old words that have gained popular usage since that first Earth Day. "The environmental movement has had a profound, lasting, and ever-increasing effect on global culture and, hence, the English language," said Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst of GLM. The words (green, renewable energy, sustainable, etc.) are ranked by order of present-day usage in the English-speaking world/AP. More here.

Question: Are you more environmentally conscious today than you were 10 years ago?