A good posting Jock - very little I could disagree with. In fact I can't think of anything!

There might be lots of cyclists in Oxford, but they are cyclists who tend to like to fly a lot and enjoy gourmet food! (not counting all the tourists and London commuters who swell their ranks)

Personally I think greenness won't really kick in until it is admitted that consumerism is the main problem - and what government in its right mind is going to round on consumerism and market forces being allowed to hold sway? We have to face economic seachange in order to address our rampant consumerism when it is so frenziedly and unrelentingly in our faces 24/7, offering new 'must-haves' by the thousand each week.

And the real 'greenness' is about saving and not wasting things rather than actual re-cycling - not such a sexy concept as the new wave of designer jute bags branded with every corporate logo and anything else that can be marketted as 'green' - or rather greener than its creation when people could just use their old shopping bags until worn out and most are too small to be of use anyway!