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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dr. Rachel Armstrong - Earth’s Bright Future

http://transhumanity.net/videos/entry/dr.-rachel-armstrong-earths-bright-future-london-real

Living Architecture

Rachel Armstrong innovates and designs sustainable solutions for the built and natural environment using advanced new technologies such as, Synthetic Biology – the rational…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on January 17, 2013 at 21:57 — No Comments

IDEAS: coming soon Self-Driving Cars as environmental allies

"the real potential of these cars is we have a transportation system that is much better on the environment because it allows more people to use vehicles in a very different way,"

"One of the big potentials is that it changes the urban landscape because you can have your car drive to where you are and pick you up, as opposed to needing to park your car within a mile of…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on January 17, 2013 at 15:30 — No Comments

Transform: Edible East - Funding available to transform derelict land into food growing spaces

Groundwork London, London Sustainability Exchange (LSx), and the London Wildlife Trust have received funding from the City Bridge Trust, Defra, SITA Trust, and the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food Programme to transform 70 areas of derelict land in the Olympic host boroughs (Barking & Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets,…

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Added by Sustainable Hackney on January 11, 2013 at 18:10 — No Comments

Healthy rivers for East London

I didn't need any convincing that East London’s rivers are the most polluted in Britain. I walked from Stratford Station this morning to the Lea. The first polluted stretch of water was the Waterworks River as it passed under the High Street. Brown and white bubbles frothed the surface. Once I had reported it to the Environment Agency (0800 80 70 60) I walked down the Lea, south of the A11 junction with…

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Added by Theo Thomas on January 2, 2013 at 15:30 — No Comments

The Tree week 7

Mon 31 Dec 2012



... acetate text: from the same root as tree ...



... The Tree is a one year collaborative project, alternating weekly between Russell Higgs and cAt Monstersmith. The Tree is a Tree Of Heaven situated @ Hackney City Farm ...…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on December 31, 2012 at 23:38 — No Comments

Tallest timber-framed structure in the world?

Waugh Thistleton Architects - winner of Green Apple Environment Award 2012 - have submitted plans for a cross-laminated timber framed building up to ten-storeys high. Surely this must be one of the most sustainable residential buildings in London? More here;

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hackney-Urban-Design-Dialogue/139305326216757

Added by Benjamin Counsell on December 26, 2012 at 10:43 — 1 Comment

The Tree week 5

... The Tree is a one year collaborative project,

alternating weekly between Russell Higgs and cAt Monstersmith.



The Tree is a Tree Of Heaven situated @ Hackney City Farm ...



Acetate : original Daily Self portrait session via…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on December 18, 2012 at 17:58 — No Comments

Young Hackney Designers Competition

PRESS RELEASE

YOUNG HACKNEY DESIGNERS COMPETITION

17 DECEMBER 2012

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Added by Mustafa Korel on December 17, 2012 at 13:50 — 1 Comment

The Tree week 3

///week 3///

... The Tree is a one year collaborative project,

alternating weekly between Russell Higgs and cAt Monstersmith.



The Tree is a Tree Of Heaven situated @ Hackney City Farm ...…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on December 9, 2012 at 15:32 — No Comments

Why Hackney Council can’t sign the London Cycling Campaign’s Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling pledge – but what it is doing to help safer cycling

Copied email from the Mayor of Hackney:

 

From: Mayor Pipe

To: ................

Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:44 PM

Subject: Re: Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling



Dear ....................



Re: Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling



Thank you for your email regarding the London Cycling Campaign’s Safer Lorries, Safer…

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Added by Michael Calderbank on November 28, 2012 at 0:07 — No Comments

The Tree week one

 

... THE TREE is a one year collaborative project, alternating weekly between Russell Higgs and cAt Monstersmith.



The Tree is a Tree Of Heaven situated @ Hackney City Farm ...



Book Leaf 1- Ruth Rendell "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me", Kate Morton…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on November 22, 2012 at 17:59 — 1 Comment

Have You Seen a Hedgehog in Hackney

A woman saw a hedgehog by the railway line on Stoke Newington Common in late October. It may have been disturbed by the clearance work done on the railway cutting. Fortunately Tree Musketeers and Stoke Newington Common Users Group have planted a lot of trees, shrubs and climbers along the railway line so that there is…

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Added by Russell Miller on November 22, 2012 at 16:30 — 5 Comments

Cow Bridge - a Dog's Dinner

Cow Bridge was due to be open and finished a year ago



Compacted mud where there used to be grass…

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Added by Hackney Marshes Users Group on November 22, 2012 at 13:30 — 1 Comment

Council motion on 20mph speed limit

Hackney Cyclists have circulated details of a motion on 20mph speed limits which will be debated at the Council meeting on the 21st November. The motion was…

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Added by James Diamond on November 14, 2012 at 11:00 — 5 Comments

East Marsh restoration begins

The process of restoring East Marsh from a coach park to a green space has begun. You can see here the paving being stripped away from a layer of hardcore beneath.

By autumn of next year, we're promised, the green space will be restored. The football and rugby pitches that were shoehorned onto the main marsh will be moved back. The pressure on space ended HMUG's…

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Added by Hackney Marshes Users Group on November 13, 2012 at 20:30 — No Comments

Get posting!

We've revamped our discussion forum, with sections for…

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Added by Sustainable Hackney on November 7, 2012 at 17:59 — No Comments

The Haringey Carbon Commission Report - A Sustainable New Economy

This is a welcome new report from Haringey's Carbon Commission.

It shows how there need be no conflict between action on climate change, action on inequality, and economic prosperity. The report promotes the growth of green industry and innovative enterprise models in the borough to ensure relevant job opportunities are created locally and so that the benefits of the 'economic prize' are shared more equitably and address the unacceptable levels of inequality within the…

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Added by Michael Calderbank on October 31, 2012 at 17:00 — No Comments

People's Kitchen's 2nd Birthday

Peoples Kitchen 2nd Birthday

Hello all you lovely people,

On Sunday People's Kitchen will be celebrating their 2nd Birthday at Passing Clouds, Please come down and support the project, enjoy some food, good company, talks and music.…

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Added by Nicky Spear on October 25, 2012 at 17:09 — No Comments

Air Pollution artwork by Houses of Parliament on until this Sunday 28th October

‘Breathe’



Video Projection times: 6.30pm-12.00



Dates: 9th-28th October



Location and best view: Westminster Bridge, SE1 7HY.



A major new artwork by artist Dryden Goodwin is being projected from the roof of St Thomas’ Hospital, London every evening until 28th October as a large scale outdoor video projection, shown above, exploring how air sustains us but also corrupts and damages our young.



Dryden Goodwin has created a series of expressive… Continue

Added by Alice sharp on October 22, 2012 at 16:22 — No Comments

Made In Hackney - Local Food Kitchen 2012 program of Sunday afternoon workshops

We're a new project concerned with educating, promoting and celebrating all aspects of local food. Our core activities include running pay-by-donation Sunday afternoon workshops which are open to all and six week courses (Seed To Plate; Harvest To Jar; Forage To Fork, Making To Sell) which we deliver to community groups such as young carers, low income families, and minority groups.

Below is our 2012 program of Sunday afternoon workshops. Places are very limited so drop us a line to…

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Added by Michael Calderbank on October 18, 2012 at 10:30 — No Comments

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