By the end of the 1980s almost every country in western and northern Europe had a party known as the Greens or by some similar name (e.g., Green List in Italy, Green Alliance in Ireland and Finland, Green Alternatives in Austria, Green Ecology Party in Sweden, Ecologist Party in Belgium).
Such sweeping generalities only reinforce a misconception that has impeded the widespread adoption of green alternatives.
Just like traditional technologies, green alternatives exhibit a range of performance across a spectrum of price points.
What we need is bold legislative action to make industry more responsible for harming the environment, and investments in research for green alternatives to dirtier current technologies.
Both cars are being marketed as green alternatives, with Nissan running adverts showing a driver getting hugged by a polar bear.
On the economy, the various progressive and green alternatives to massive cuts in public services were excluded from even momentary consideration.
But the danger is that the cost of making Hinkley C work will have a perverse effect, slowing the development of green alternatives.
But for now, all the painless green alternatives like massive conservation, smart building, solar power, wind power, ocean waves and the rest that are supposed to allow us to do without nuclear power are still minor parts of the equation.
