First came the Green Party Councillors’ successful motion to Leicester City Council in November, asking the Council to “support and encourage retailers, businesses and commercial manufacturers to eliminate excessive packaging, in particular the widespread use of plastic bags, replacing them where necessary with reusable bags made from natural fibres or strong paper, and with cardboard boxes [...]
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Matt Follett, Green Party councillor said today “The Local Government Association and the Green Party have called for councils to provide nationwide free insulation, through a scheme based on the Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council model, that has by the Green Party Group of Councillors in Kirklees, a model which includes how it can be financed. Insulating every home properly cuts [...] UK is being left behind in green industrial revolution One of Britain’s leading Greens today slammed Gordon Brown’s allegedly ‘green’ new deal, and called for a long overdue green industrial revolution. In an analysis piece in online news and current affairs service politics.co.uk, Professor John Whitelegg said, ‘We have known the inherent advantages of green economics for a [...] Manchester Greens were among thousands of protestors on the streets of the city today, calling for an end to the bombardment of the Palestine people by the Israeli military, and a lifting of the siege of Gaza. Turnout on the march was impressive, particularly given the short notice and the fact that there was a national demomnstration [...] |
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