Just returned from Glastonbury and shared with a number of people (about100) the Greensqueeze leaflet and let good folks know what is happening in other parts of the countryside (our part).
It is a very mixed church that camp out in the sun and the rain for 4 days listening to v. loud music. Call it sheer daftness but it is wonderful to be with very different people and yet share some similar views about peace, the environment and doing the right thing by others. What struck me was the receptiveness of people to listen to our campaign. Mostly people were shocked and shared a willingness to vote to the poll. What I realised is that whilst Glastonbury festival is not everyones cup of tea we all do enjoy something where like minded people come together. Like on holidays, fishing trips etc. Its not easy just going up to a stranger but then non of this work is easy is it...So much hard work is going into this campaign and it is incredibley inspiring to feel the commitment to protect our countryside. ..what ever is your thing, with your people share the leaflet or print off the window poster and give it to people that enjoy your cup of tea too even if its a stranger. Its surprising how much other people care... if you do!
I recently relocated to beautiful Derbyshire from the ugliness of a concrete jungle that was west Essex/E.London. I came here for peace after a traumatic life, I came here to spend my remaining years in a beautiful unspoilt countryside. But what do I find? my adopted county is being ruined. Already my home, in Smalley, which looks out over fields, the view being a big reason for my purchasing the house, is blighted by the fields being turned into a massive open cast mine! destroying the local environment and for what?
Next, a beautiful spot I have come to love, by the crooked tree in No Mans Lane, is in danger of being destroyed too!
How can you preach about 'green' issues and then create this devastation and pollution? What bloody hypocrites you all are.
Money is what is talking here, not caring for the environment.
Green issues only matter when you can use them as an excuse to make us pay more taxes in the name of protecting the environment!
Wrong! If we didnt take all the waifs and strays in from the rest of Europe and the world, we wouldnt have this need for so much new housing! Why don't you tackle the issue at grass roots?
There are many brown field sites in towns and cities around here, plenty of derelect factories, housing and wasteland, already eyesores, which could be utilised for regeneration without taking the very fresh air we breath!
It's shameful and I am deeply upset that we, the people who pay your wages, seem to have no voice in all of this!
From Crooked Tree
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Its not everyones cup of tea
Just returned from Glastonbury and shared with a number of people (about100) the Greensqueeze leaflet and let good folks know what is happening in other parts of the countryside (our part).
It is a very mixed church that camp out in the sun and the rain for 4 days listening to v. loud music. Call it sheer daftness but it is wonderful to be with very different people and yet share some similar views about peace, the environment and doing the right thing by others. What struck me was the receptiveness of people to listen to our campaign. Mostly people were shocked and shared a willingness to vote to the poll. What I realised is that whilst Glastonbury festival is not everyones cup of tea we all do enjoy something where like minded people come together. Like on holidays, fishing trips etc. Its not easy just going up to a stranger but then non of this work is easy is it...So much hard work is going into this campaign and it is incredibley inspiring to feel the commitment to protect our countryside. ..what ever is your thing, with your people share the leaflet or print off the window poster and give it to people that enjoy your cup of tea too even if its a stranger. Its surprising how much other people care... if you do!
I agree with all the others on here!
I recently relocated to beautiful Derbyshire from the ugliness of a concrete jungle that was west Essex/E.London. I came here for peace after a traumatic life, I came here to spend my remaining years in a beautiful unspoilt countryside. But what do I find? my adopted county is being ruined. Already my home, in Smalley, which looks out over fields, the view being a big reason for my purchasing the house, is blighted by the fields being turned into a massive open cast mine! destroying the local environment and for what?
Next, a beautiful spot I have come to love, by the crooked tree in No Mans Lane, is in danger of being destroyed too!
How can you preach about 'green' issues and then create this devastation and pollution? What bloody hypocrites you all are.
Money is what is talking here, not caring for the environment.
Green issues only matter when you can use them as an excuse to make us pay more taxes in the name of protecting the environment!
Wrong! If we didnt take all the waifs and strays in from the rest of Europe and the world, we wouldnt have this need for so much new housing! Why don't you tackle the issue at grass roots?
There are many brown field sites in towns and cities around here, plenty of derelect factories, housing and wasteland, already eyesores, which could be utilised for regeneration without taking the very fresh air we breath!
It's shameful and I am deeply upset that we, the people who pay your wages, seem to have no voice in all of this!
From Crooked Tree