For Labour, agreeing to the Heathrow expansion has made Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson look like men of the past, not the future, and although it's wonderful that the Tories are opposing the expansion, that doesn't make them greenies.
Go on, greenies, say it: socialism.
"Veggie-gate" played directly into fears that holier-than-thou greenies just want to seize everybody's steak knives.
And it's not just small companies run by idealistic greenies that are betting on environmentally-friendly technology.
San Francisco has a history of anticipating cultural earthquakes, from the hippies of the 1960s to the greenies of the 1980s.
Sure, "sustainable development" has become a weaselly, empty phrase, and even with increased density American cities will probably remain far more auto-centric than European cities and than some greenies might like.
Ditto solar.The last thing the planet needs is millions of well-intentioned greenies wasting money on windmills the size of desk fans many of which will doubtless remain in their boxes.
Her new novel, The Year of the Flood, by Bloomsbury (£18.99), features a dystopia in which science has had cataclysmic consequences on the environment, and it represents Atwood's call on "greenies" to mobilise.
I was writing about organics 15 years ago, when green was a colour not a political statement, and now people classify both Jo and I as "greenies" and ethical entrepreneurs, but I don't think it's been a case of either of us of waving a big green flag.
Put it this way, he'd rather say nothing and carry on getting support from various greenies".
Compiled by Borders, the Greenies is made up of photocopies of items in previous days' Timeses, each one critiqued by editors; the issues can range from niggling questions of transliteration to the merits of a headline.
