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- All hail the greengrocer buses tackling the UK’s food deserts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 09, 2024)
- London’s new urban greening structure is a ‘garden for insects and people’, positive.news (Sep 17, 2024)
- A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Aug 14, 2024) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong reports
- Expanding London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) has improved air quality and reduced harmful emissions from cars and vans says City Hall, BBC News (Jul 25, 2024)
- Value in the meantime: the social enterprise transforming London’s empty buildings, positive.news (Jul 23, 2024)
- What are the embryonic initiatives that quickly and radically transform society? Maybe ours will be gardens, suggests Greg Frey, Daily Alternative (Jun 06, 2024)
- Thames21 welcomes Government’s plan to ban plastic in wet wipes, thames21.org.uk (Apr 22, 2024)
- Five years of a car-free Thames crossing, wearepossible.org (Apr 10, 2024)
- All hands to the pumps: the colourful rise of community-owned pubs, positive.news (Mar 05, 2024)
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- Greenwich: Closed pub reopens as community hub, BBC News (Dec 15, 2023)
- Revealed: the UK’s ‘best’ new buildings, positive.news (Oct 23, 2023)
- SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2023)
- Charity uses carbon credits to make more homes energy efficient and greener – and it’s genius, bigissue.com (Oct 07, 2023)
- Baby beaver born in London for first time in 400 years, theguardian.com (Sep 30, 2023)
- ‘I call it botanarchy’: The Hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people, theguardian.com (Sep 28, 2023)
- Clean air ‘a right not a privilege’, says London mayor as Ulez is expanded, theguardian.com (Aug 29, 2023)
- The pedal-powered ‘zero waste’ grocer taking on London’s supermarkets, positive.news (Aug 03, 2023)
- Zimbabwe’s therapeutic ‘friendship benches’, coming to a city near you, positive.news (Jul 26, 2023)
- ‘In at the deep end’: ditching the car for a cargo bike on the school run, theguardian.com (Jun 19, 2023)
- A model for senior living? London’s commune for older women, positive.news (Jun 14, 2023)
- Cultural connections in the classroom, Wicked Leeks (Jun 08, 2023)
- Where property prices are set by what local people earn, BBC News (May 01, 2023)
- Beavers to return to London as part of urban rewilding, The Guardian (Mar 21, 2023)
- London to offer free school meals to all primary pupils for a year, The Guardian (Feb 19, 2023)
- London to gain new garden in the sky, as the Camden Highline gets green light, camdenhighline.com (Jan 20, 2023) — Planning approval has been granted for the first section of the Camden Highline, running from Camden Gardens to Royal College Street. It will see the transformation of a section of disused railway into a new elevated urban park for London. The project is now set to offer much-needed green space to underserved communities, while creating a new global attraction for London, akin to New York’s High Line.
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- "What if the only important work left is to care for each other and care for the planet?" asks Greenwich's Care + Planet, The Daily Alternative (Dec 01, 2022)
- Money to grow: radical policy helps UK communities green their own spaces, The Guardian (Nov 25, 2022)
- Amazon's e-cargo bikes and walkers to eat into London carbon footprint, newatlas.com (Jul 04, 2022)
- Communities need a say in reviving 800 dead spaces across London, Siân Berry, london.gov.uk (Jun 06, 2022)
- Majority of residents think Staveley Rd barrier is a success, chiswickcalendar.co.uk (May 30, 2022)
- Islington Climate Emergency Centre – a movement is growing, realmedia.press (Mar 29, 2022) — "The science is clear. It's not those fighting to put food on the table who need to fix this mess, right? It's the high consuming communities, high consuming individuals who need to act furthest and fastest." Tom Bailey, TakeTheJump.org
- A "makerspace" can be more than just crafting. London's Bloqs shows how it can boost local economy (and autonomy), The Alternative UK (Feb 07, 2022)
- Camden calls for sites that could deliver Community led housing, communityledhousing.london (Feb 02, 2022)