Occupy Wall Street

Today’s Green Thought is the wording of a poster held by an anti-capitalist protester in the October 2011 City of London demonstration inspired by Occupy Wall Street.

THE BEGINNING IS NIGH

Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne

Today’s Green Thought are prophetic (or is it pathetic) words from our Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne at this years Conservative Party Conference in October 2011.

We’re not going to save the planet by putting our country out of business.

Mohandas Gandhi

Today’s Green Thought comes from Mohandas Gandhi. On one of his visits to England, a reporter asked him what he thought of western civilisation.

He replied –

I think it would be a very good idea.

http://www.mkgandhi.org/

Victor Hugo

Today’s Green Thought comes from Victor Hugo (author of Les Misérables)

“How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn’t listen.”

http://www.victorhugo.gg/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo

Wangari Maathai

Today’s Green Thought comes from the first person to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) for environmental work, Wangari Maathai, who has just died (25 September 2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai

She was the inspiration behind the Green Belt movement, which has planted millions of tree in Kenya and other parts of Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Belt_Movement

'The tree is just a symbol for what happens to the environment. The act of planting one is a symbol of revitalising the community. Tree-planting is only the entry point into the wider debate about the environment. Everyone should plant a tree.'