Posts Tagged ‘friends of the earth’
Hackney Council backs Edmonton incinerator despite fears over ‘dirtiest form of power’
Scientists warn that burning non-food waste is a ‘disaster’ for the climate
Read MoreOver 200 fossil fuel ad campaigns shown on TfL network since Sadiq Khan set out ‘zero carbon’ goal
The figures come after UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged every country to ban such advertising
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘In nature, plants look after themselves, but people can forget, go away, or just give up’
Kate Poland’s guide to growing in small spaces, based on her first year as the gardener for an entire Hackney postcode
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland on smashing up paving and sowing seeds
Read MoreSmashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift
A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together
Read MoreSmash up paving and make space for nature at groundbreaking 10xGreener event
‘If a lot of people make a little space, we can make a difference’, says postcode gardener Kate Poland
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has a few tips and tricks for growing in confined conditions
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘Insects keep the whole lot of us going’
In the first in a new column, award-winning community gardener Kate Poland tells us the dos and do-nothings that can help our insects
Read MoreUK’s first ever postcode gardener gets to work in Homerton
Award-winning grower Kate Poland picked to beautify E5 over the next year
Read MoreHomerton residents launch campaign to hire a gardener for an entire postcode
Crowdfunder builds on recent project to make one road in E5 ten times greener
Read MoreHackney councillor Jon Burke wants libraries to lend out power tools and kitchen appliances
But head of free market thinktank says he is sceptical about the idea taxpayer-funded authorities should buy goods on public’s behalf
Read MoreCouncil launches £640k recycling rewards scheme despite ‘mixed results’
Government-funded initiative is part of a fresh drive to boost stagnant recycling rates in Hackney, but research suggests such schemes are ‘unreliable’
Read MoreRevealed: Hackney Council sprays around 1,200 litres of glyphosate in the borough each year
Weedkiller is ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ according to World Health Organisation, but Town Hall says it has been declared safe by the EU
Read MoreFriends of the Earth create buzz with bee count app
Charity launches Great British Bee Count mobile app launched to track decline in bee population
Read MoreExpanding City Airport could cause Hackney residents sleepless nights
Sky high pollution levels a risk, argues Adrianna Threpsiadi from Hackney Friends of the Earth
Read MoreGive bees a chance
Our lives depend on the winged insects, say groups creating a buzz about them
Read MoreHackney residents feeling heat of rocketing fuel prices
Fuel poverty, ‘green jobs’ and energy efficiency among the issues raised at public meeting hosted by Friends of the Earth
Read MoreTurning up the heat on the Energy Bill – residents to quiz Hackney MP Meg Hillier
Hackney Friends of the Earth to host Q&A session at the Shoreditch Trust
Read MoreHackney Friends of the Earth highlights air pollution problems
Air pollution is an invisible threat we should not hide from says local eco campaign group
Read MoreDon’t give things up – add more! says Hackney Friends of the Earth
Hackney Friends of the Earth urges us to love our New Year’s resolutions
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