Posted on June 23, 2020 at 14:56 0 Comments 0 Likes
Next Tuesday, 30 June, The Time is Now mass lobby is asking for a green and fair recovery from the pandemic. It is asking for a recovery that puts people, climate and nature at its heart.
Last year we were all outside Parliament, waiting for our MPs to come down. This year we are asking for video conference meetings, we are writing, we are using social media.
The more voices they hear, the more importance they'll give to it.
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ContinuePosted on June 3, 2020 at 13:00 0 Comments 3 Likes
I learned many things during the lockdown. I was shielding, but fortunate enough to already belong to an organic veg box scheme. Amazingly, they managed to keep up deliveries, although the content became quite random – so I discovered many new recipes, learning to cook things I don’t really like and so don’t usually buy, using spices to adjust the taste so I could use everything I was sent. A survey by WRAP found that, since lockdown, people generally have been valuing food more, making…
ContinuePosted on April 15, 2020 at 12:35 0 Comments 0 Likes
There is a shortage of scrubs and other items in Hackney.
The local group for helping with this is at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1664878276997558/
For those who can sew, if you join (it's a private group, so you need to apply) there is a team liaising with the various hospitals and GP practices and allocating work to be done plus the fabric with which to do it. Don't worry if you're not…
ContinuePosted on May 22, 2018 at 10:39 0 Comments 0 Likes
At long last it’s starting to happen, but so, so slowly – general recognition of our right to breathe clean air and that we are not able to do so. Our air quality is illegal; our air quality is killing people – 40,000 early deaths every year. Here in London, which falls way down the air quality league table of European capital cities, the main contributor to pollution is transport.
The pressure started with Client Earth, whose UK offices are in Hackney, successfully taking…
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