An Englishman's Castle

Green party's first 100 days in Brighton: the honeymoon's not over yet | Politics | The Guardian

The Green manifesto idea for a "meat-free Monday" was given the thumbs down after an enthusiastic council official proposed piloting it with beefy binmen. They were already cross about public hostility – binmen have been attacked – towards efforts to improve the efficiency and environmental friendliness of waste collection.
Creatives, hippies, counter-culture types, gays and lesbians, new media pioneers, all have long been drawn down the A23 to its sunny micro-climate, creating an environment where the Green movement was likely to thrive. Many students attending its two universities graduate and decide to stay, worsening job and housing shortages for the unskilled, but – as in other Green university strongholds like Oxford, Norwich and Lancaster – pushing up the radical vote. Even Tories are quite green Tories in Brighton.

Breaking out of the muesli belt | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk

The environmental movement is largely middle-class and white, and this makes any sort of engagement with the wider community more difficult to achieve.

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