The citizens here walk around with their own reusable cups.
Nobody seems to throw anything away.
Petitions for a moratorium on asphalt. Young people in dreadlocks tending their compost piles. Students majoring in ecology dressed like hobbits in hemp clothing. While consumer advocate Ralph Nader ran for president on the Green ticket, his campaign was quixotic, symbolic, a blip on the national political screen. But here, at least, the Green effort has moved from the fringes of agitation and advocacy onto the dais at city hall.