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East London Waterworks Park - help save the vision!

Jul 13

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The East End Trades Guild's Manifesto for the New Economy

The East End Trades Guild have a Manifesto for the New EconomyThe East End Trades Guild (EETG) is an alliance of 400 small independent businesses, socially trading organisations and self-employed people all working together for the common good in East London. The Guild is rooted in a Community Organising approach and aims to help build a bridge towards a fair, inclusive and sustainable economy.Read more about the Guild and it’s Manifesto for the New Economy at…See More

Apr 28

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Keep Our NHS Public

Can’t get a GP appointment? Struggling to find a dentist? Have a friend or family member on a surgical waiting list? If the answer is ‘Yes’ to any of the above, then you are not alone. People all over the country are struggling to get the care they need for a decent quality of life. Ahead of the General Election later this year, Keep Our NHS Public is launching a new campaign to build support for our vision for a People’s NHS. Sustainable Hackney is…See More

Apr 21

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Silo - zero waste restaurant film

Every year, the UK food industry wastes 1.9 million tonnes of food. This film documents the story of one chef and his efforts to change this.Five years ago, Douglas McMaster opened the restaurant Silo, hoping to change the unsustainable practices of modern food systems.His aim was simple, yet frighteningly ambitious: create an award-winning menu using a zero-waste food system designed from scratch.This is the (9 minutes) story of that restaurant’s first five years:…See More

Nov 14, 2021

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Plastic Free Hackney film screening - The Story of Plastic at Hackney

June 11, 2021 at 6pm to June 16, 2021 at 7pm

To mark World Refill Day, Plastic Free Hackney invite you to join them in watching The Story of Plastic. This will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A on Wed, 16 June 2021 from 19:00 – 21:00 BST. Watch The Story of Plastic trailer at: https://youtu.be/37PDwW0c1so About this event The Story of Plastic is a searing expose revealing the ugly truth…See More

Jun 2, 2021

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Oct 31, 2020

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THIS YEAR'S SUSTAINABLE HACKNEY FILMS FOR ACTION

Sustainable Hackney's UK premiere screening of Mary Janes: The Women of Weed on 7th March went very well but then COVID-19 came along, and the rest of our film season is now unfortunately on hold.We are not yet sure when we'll be able to show the next film but still have the following dates in mind:Friday 1 May - cancelledFriday 10 July - to be confirmedSaturday 26 September - to be confirmedFriday 20 November - to be…See More

May 27, 2020

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Mar 24, 2020

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Sustainable Hackney Films for Action Event at St Paul's West Hackney church hall

March 7, 2020 from 7pm to 11pm

Our first film of 2020 is Mary Janes: The Women of Weed.The film is about women who are leading the cannabis industry and how 'cannabis liberation intersects with the most urgent social justice issues of our time, how this green revolution has big effects on environmental sustainability, ending the War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex, and the destructive domination of Big Pharma’. It's part of the…See More

Feb 13, 2020

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Sustainable Hackney Films for Action Event
September 26, 2020 from 7pm to 11pm
Sustainable Hackney Films for Action Event
July 10, 2020 from 7pm to 11pm
Sustainable Hackney Films for Action Event
May 1, 2020 from 7pm to 11pm

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Feb 2, 2020

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The Dirty War on the NHS at Minerva Community Centre

February 12, 2020 from 7pm to 8pm

Free screening of this important new film by John Pilger (any voluntary donations made will be passed on to the film maker).See how banks, insurance and private medical companies now run the NHS for greed not need. The increasing financialisation of the NHS began with stealthy privatisation in the 1990s and was accelerated by the 2012 Health and Social Care Act.Patients are being dumped on the streets in the middle of the night to save money, and 20% of taxpayer funding now goes on…See More

Feb 2, 2020

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Towards a Dalston Plan consultation

Towards a Dalston Plan consultation on key issues and objectives - launched on Monday 27 January 2020.The consultation document and questionnaire is published alongside the Dalston Conversation report and is available at https://dalstonplan.commonplace.is/.How to have your sayTo view the key issues and objectives, and to have your say on the objectives, visit:…See More

Jan 26, 2020

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Sustainable Hackney at Hackney's Sustainability Day 2019

Here is a picture from Hackney's Sustainability Day 2019, on Sat. 16 Nov. It was great seeing you at our stall! There were lots of questions about Hackney Fixers, Fairtrade, Education for Sustainability and joining our mailing list. …See More

Jan 22, 2020

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Positive Money meeting on Land value Tax at Positive Money on Land Value Tax

November 13, 2019 from 7pm to 9pm

Positive Money Hackney & Positive Money Tower Hamlets are holding a joint meeting on Wednesday 13th November at 7pm. John Campbell will be presenting a talk on Land Value Tax. This is a practical proposal that could provide funding for housing and transport needs and many other issues that suffer from inequality. It has briefly been in UK law before as far back as 1931, so government have already seen the usefulness of having a simple system like LVT that is fair for all. If properly…See More

Nov 4, 2019

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Normal Is Over 1.1 - Film screening Fri 1st November at Normal Is Over 1.1 - Film screening Fri 1st November

November 1, 2019 from 7pm to 10:30pm

Renée’s Scheltema award-winning film Normal Is Over is about humanity’s wisest response to climate change, species extinction, the depletion of critical natural resources, income inequality and industrial control of our food production.This unique documentary examines how our economic and financial system connects all these issues, and offers solutions, which could be implemented immediately, from practical everyday fixes to…See More

Oct 5, 2019

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Sustainable Hackney AGM at Venue to be confirmed

October 2, 2019 from 7pm to 9pm

Come and join us to finalise our 'Action on the Climate Emergency' submission to the Council, review of our work over the last financial year and elections to the Steering Group for the next year.See More

Sep 22, 2019

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East London Waterworks Park - help save the vision!

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The East End Trades Guild's Manifesto for the New Economy

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The East End Trades Guild have a Manifesto for the New Economy

The East End Trades Guild (EETG) is an alliance of 400 small independent businesses, socially trading organisations and self-employed people all working together for the common good in East London. The Guild is rooted in a Community Organising approach and aims to help build a bridge towards a fair, inclusive and sustainable economy.

Keep Our NHS Public

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Ahead of the General Election later this year, Keep Our NHS Public is launching a new campaign to build support for our vision for a People’s NHS.…

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Silo - zero waste restaurant film

Posted on November 14, 2021 at 18:30 0 Comments 0 Likes

Every year, the UK food industry wastes 1.9 million tonnes of food. This film documents the story of one chef and his efforts to change this.

Five years ago, Douglas McMaster opened the restaurant Silo, hoping to change the unsustainable practices of modern food systems.

His…

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At 16:52 on August 13, 2014, Mary Atkinson said…: Many thanks Michael. I hope to be at the next meeting

At 20:48 on June 25, 2013, John Little said…: Hi Michael

We certainly reduce the herbicide use by using plants but at the moment would find it difficult to use less, especially on the hard surfaces.

Happy to chat through, on the estate most weeks if you wanted to come down.