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FORAGE LONDON WILD FOOD WALK
May 19, 2013 from 10am to 12:30pm – Battersea park SW11
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'Coming Home': Reconnecting to Nature Workshop
May 19, 2013 from 10am to 5pm – Mile End
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Building a bee fence
May 19, 2013 from 10:45am to 4:30pm – Hackney Community Tree Nursery
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Herbal Medicine at Hackney Forest Garden
May 22, 2013 from 10:30am to 1pm – Hackney Community Tree Nursery
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Introduction to Wild Flowers half-day course
May 23, 2013 from 10:30am to 4pm – Natural History Museum
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FORAGE LONDON WILD FOOD WALK
May 26, 2013 from 10am to 12:30pm – Victoria park E9
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Herbal Medicine at Hackney Forest Garden
May 29, 2013 from 10:30am to 1pm – Hackney Community Tree Nursery
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Free Guided Bee Talk/Walk
June 2, 2013 from 2:30pm to 4pm – Abney Park Nature Reserve
All Blog Posts (176)
Homerton adventure playground renewables commissioner required !
Henry - henrymuss@yahoo.co.uk
Added by Henry Muss on May 8, 2013 at 9:49 — No Comments
Latest government support for energy saving measures in your home
Green deal and ECO – Know your rights
ECO grants can subsidise heating and insulation work to your home as part of the…
ContinueAdded by Peter J I Snell on May 3, 2013 at 21:17 — No Comments
Lots of great ideas at the Sustainable Hackney AGM 2nd May 2013
Lots of great ideas from the people at last night's meeting! Thanks for coming and contributing.
Click the photos for transcripts.
Find more photos like this on sustainable…
ContinueAdded by Sustainable Hackney on May 3, 2013 at 15:00 — No Comments
Sainsbury's Planning Decision - Will they Appeal?
Abney Biodiversity Defeats Sainsburys - Will They Appeal?
The formal decision of the planning sub-committee which rejected the Wilmer Place Sainsbury's has been published on the…
Added by Russell Miller on April 17, 2013 at 13:30 — 1 Comment
Abney Woodland Edge Saved
Added by Russell Miller on April 4, 2013 at 10:00 — 5 Comments
Planning alerts
You can get planning and licence applications in your locality emailed to you using nearme.at/email
Added by Andrew Boff on March 26, 2013 at 22:48 — No Comments
Sign the Petition Against a New Sainsburys in Stokey
STOP WILMER PLACE - SIGN THE PETITION NOW!
White Letter Hairstreak butterfly - UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority…
Added by Russell Miller on March 21, 2013 at 13:00 — No Comments
Honeybees at winter's end
The Forest Garden honeybees have come through most of the winter. On the occasional mild day towards the end of February, a dozen or more from each of our two hives were out mapping and foraging for pollen to feed the year's first grubs. The queens have probably been laying since the end of January. When I uncover the window at the back of the older hive, an increasing…
ContinueAdded by Tree Nursery & Forest Garden on March 19, 2013 at 10:00 — 2 Comments
The Tree week 17
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/8557560782/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/8556451681/
Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on March 17, 2013 at 14:28 — No Comments
Sainsbury's Threat to Abney - ACT NOW!
Added by Russell Miller on March 14, 2013 at 13:30 — 3 Comments
Energy Bill - Meg Hillier MP commits to clean and affordable energy
At a packed public meeting organised by Hackney and Tower Hamlets Friends of the Earth, at the Shoreditch Trust on 27th February, Hackney South and Shoreditch MP Meg Hillier pledged her support for amendments to the Energy Bill currently going through Parliament:
- for most of the carbon to be taken out of the electricity supply by 2030…
Added by Katherine Pitt on March 12, 2013 at 20:00 — No Comments
EDF legal threat to local activists - letter of concern
The letter below has been sent to the Hackney Gazette and Hackney Citizen from Hackney & Tower Hamlets Friends of the Earth and Sustainable Hackney, in support of local activists whom EDF Energy are threatening to sue for protesting and occupying chimneys at a power station:…
Added by Katherine Pitt on March 3, 2013 at 18:02 — 1 Comment
The Tree week 15: LEAFLET (new pledge of allegiance)
LEAFLET folded front: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/8517928633/
LEAFLET unfolded back:…
ContinueAdded by Russell Shaw Higgs on March 1, 2013 at 17:12 — No Comments
Hackney releases waste and recycling data
Hackney Council has released waste and recycling data following a Freedom of Information request by a member of the Sustainable Hackney Steering Group:-.
- The data release is given here LBH.WasteData2011-12.pdf…
Added by Sustainable Hackney on February 27, 2013 at 17:30 — No Comments
Chelsea-Hackney line aka Crossrail 2
Proposals for the Chelsea-Hackney tube line, first mooted in the 1930's are back on the table once again. A working group from business consortium London First, chaired by former transport secretary Lord Adonis, has published a report urging support for Crossrail 2 and favouring route option B below. If the proposals win political and financial support it will be at least 2033 before the…
ContinueAdded by James Diamond on February 27, 2013 at 10:30 — No Comments
EMANCIPATORY WELFARE
Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) - Exploring a pathway towards emancipatory welfare conditions in the EU ...
http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/ongoing/details/2013/000001
European Citizens initiative: A historical campaign has born | Basic…
Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on February 25, 2013 at 15:39 — No Comments
Just two days left to catch the first photo exhibition on environmental sustainability in Hackney!
More details available at -
http://www.hackney.gov.uk/museum-exhibitions.htm
http://www.climatechangecafe.com
Exhibition opening at Hackney Museum on 8th Feb…
Added by Climate Change Cafe on February 22, 2013 at 8:55 — 1 Comment
Thames Water site visit - fantastic potential for leisure & nature
Currently visible but out of reach behind steel fencing, the Red House is the outstanding feature of the Thames Water site opposite the Princess of Wales pub, Lee Bridge Road. On February 4th a group of local residents saw the area from the opposite side of the river.
Seen from the Thames Water site, the weir, the Princess of Wales and the Lee Bridge basin promise to be a wonderful focus for leisure, recreation and… Continue
Added by David Rees on February 21, 2013 at 21:04 — No Comments
BASIC INCOME citizen's income GUARANTEED INCOME update
the B.I.G. idea
Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on February 19, 2013 at 0:30 — No Comments
It's a fair coppice
We're over half way through our winter sessions in Wick Wood. There's been a good turn out from a bunch of nice people, with all degrees of experience from nil to lots. You can still squeeze into one of the few spare slots this Sunday or Sunday 3rd March if you contact …
ContinueAdded by Hackney Marshes Users Group on February 16, 2013 at 12:00 — No Comments
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- Lots of great ideas at the Sustainable Hackney AGM 2nd May 2013
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- It's a fair coppice
- Thames Water site visit - fantastic potential for leisure & nature
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- Lots of great ideas at the Sustainable Hackney AGM 2nd May 2013
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