His hand-painted gold and green shop sign hangs on the wall in the front room.
Tomatoes sit outside a Bethnal Green shop, "darkening now like old bruises".
ONE recent Saturday, five bright green shopping bags stood on the shelf behind the counter at the new LeSportsac boutique on Madison Avenue.
The Green shop 30 Bridge Street, Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1AQ, 01289 305566 Greener than Robin Hood's underpants, this shop opened in 1993 and has everything: meat, fruit and veg, bread, alcohol, toiletries and 2,000 pre-packed foods, all entirely organic.
In her contemporary yellow and dark green shop, Ms. Mueller stocks and sells 120 varieties of the main tea categories -- black, green and oolong -- and their blends, as well as herbal, scented and decaffeinated types.
In its broadest terms, this "green shopping" movement deals with man's relationship to the environment, and the treatment of farmworkers, just two topics that led to riots last year at the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle.
The Wood Green shop shut its doors for the final time at 2pm on Sunday after more than 40 years, three hours earlier than usual after running out of things to sell.
One grim day in 2006, acting on account of rent arrears, Haringey council officials broke down the door of a bedsit in a housing complex above Wood Green Shopping City in north London.
Arnold De Souza had been buying his clothes at the Wood Green shop on and off over the last four decades, but could not find any men's clothes on the last day.
Among them was the shutdown of Robert F. Kennedy Bridge for several hours one night last week after a man abandoned a truck on it, and a 90-minute emptying of Times Square because of a suspicious package that turned out to be a canvas cooler and a green shopping bag.
