The Perfect Imperfect Green
Apr. 17th, 2008 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerI enjoyed reading this rather lengthy but engaging article on Siân Berry who, as readers of this blog will already know, is running for the London [England] mayor's seat. The occasion for this story was on her, then recent, appointment as the national Green Party's female "principal speaker".
A 21st Century Petra Kelly in the making?
Because I'm Green - Flintoff.org - 01 Feb 07
"It was while travelling to work that she had the idea that made her name. 'I was living in Highgate, and I used to stand every day at the bus stop during the school run. The streets were clogged with petrol-guzzling 4×4s. I thought, ‘Someone needs to do something about this.’ I went to find out who that someone was, but there was no one.'"
"She drew up a spoof parking ticket [pdf], a truly inspired work of satire designed to resemble the real thing but packed with information about climate catastrophe. She took it to her local Greenpeace group. 'They said, great, we will use this. We had a whip round and got 1,000 printed up. The local paper found some and did a story. It was the start of a media frenzy.[']
I was one of the journalists who wrote about the 'Alliance Against Urban 4×4s', as the group styled themselves. And I found the tickets so impressive that I sent off for some to put on the offending vehicles myself."
A 21st Century Petra Kelly in the making?
Because I'm Green - Flintoff.org - 01 Feb 07
"It was while travelling to work that she had the idea that made her name. 'I was living in Highgate, and I used to stand every day at the bus stop during the school run. The streets were clogged with petrol-guzzling 4×4s. I thought, ‘Someone needs to do something about this.’ I went to find out who that someone was, but there was no one.'"
"She drew up a spoof parking ticket [pdf], a truly inspired work of satire designed to resemble the real thing but packed with information about climate catastrophe. She took it to her local Greenpeace group. 'They said, great, we will use this. We had a whip round and got 1,000 printed up. The local paper found some and did a story. It was the start of a media frenzy.[']
I was one of the journalists who wrote about the 'Alliance Against Urban 4×4s', as the group styled themselves. And I found the tickets so impressive that I sent off for some to put on the offending vehicles myself."
