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A photo story on environmental sustainability in Hackney

Hackney has the largest expanse of green space (815 acres) within inner city London but can we take this as a symbol for how green the borough is in general? Environmental sustainability goes far beyond simply maintaining parks and woodland to encompass recycling of natural resources, reducing our carbon footprint, investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, encouraging biodiversity, promoting cleaner air and growing more eco-friendly food. The challenge of sustainable development…

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Added by Climate Change Cafe on February 5, 2013 at 9:43 — No Comments

Jennette Arnold, London Assembly Member for North East London, writes on Fuel poverty

Londoners shouldn’t be left out in the cold



As many of you will know I have been campaigning on fuel poverty for many years. Each winter elders across London are faced with ever higher fuel bills and are often faced with the appalling choice of heating or eating. On Fuel Poverty Awareness Day last week I…

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Added by Michael Calderbank on February 4, 2013 at 18:05 — No Comments

The Tree week 11

THE TREE week 11 :  Thurs 31 Jan 2013

In the eleventh week The Tree features in some paste-ups across the road from the farm where it lives. Plus in this photo The Tree itself can also be seen in the background at the right hand edge of the frame.



Another…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on January 31, 2013 at 20:00 — No Comments

So long, and thanks for all the kale

 

Misplaced modesty had prevented me from updating my blog about the edible garden on our housing estate (Lordship North) to say that it won 2 awards last year: Hackney in Bloom Best Community (volunteer) Garden, and 2nd prize in Capital Growth Grow…

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Added by Stephanie Irvine on January 28, 2013 at 15:58 — No Comments

SUGRU

Apologies if this is old news to some of you, but it's new news to me and I thought it worth sharing nonetheless

http://sugru.com/

“I don’t want to buy new stuff all the time. I want to hack the stuff I already have so it works better for me.”

Sugru is the…

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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on January 25, 2013 at 13:23 — 1 Comment

The Tree : end of week 9

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

The Tree was initially believed to be a Tree Of Heaven, but is since identified as Robinia Pseudoacacia, commonly known as the Black Locust, and is situated @ Hackney City Farm ...…



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Added by Russell Shaw Higgs on January 21, 2013 at 17:52 — No Comments

PTLLS training - free

from Woodberry Works. Preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector. Teacher/assessor course. For Hackney residents who are unemployed.

PTTLS

  • roles, responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning
  • understanding inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learning
  • using inclusive learning and teaching approaches in lifelong learning
  • principles of assessment in lifelong learning

Assessor…

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Added by Jo Homan on January 19, 2013 at 23:19 — No Comments

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

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