Camden

Camden Lock, April 2007.

Climate action data
Reduction date	2030
Climate emergency organization	Camden Council
Climate emergency declaration	2019
Climate assembly	Camden Council
Climate action plan	2020-2025

Location data
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Location	Camden, London

The London Borough of Camden () is a London borough in Inner London, and historically a part of Middlesex. Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies 1.4 mi (2.3 km) north of Charing Cross.

The cultural and commercial land uses in the south contrasts with the bustling mixed-use districts such as Camden Town and Kentish Town in the centre and leafy residential areas around Hampstead Heath in the north. Well known attractions include The British Museum, The British Library, the famous views from Parliament Hill, the London Zoo, the BT Tower, The Roundhouse and Camden Market. In 2019 it was estimated to have a population of 270,000.

The local authority is Camden London Borough Council.

— From Wikipedia:London Borough of Camden

Camden community action

Sustainability initiatives

• Green Camden information from camden.gov.uk
• Transition Belsize
• Transition Dartmouth Park
• Transition Kentish Town
• Transition Tufnell Park

Arts, sport and culture

GoodGym Camden

Climate action

See List of climate assemblies, Camden

Camden Climate Change Alliance

Community involvement

Alternative Camden

Communities online

Kings Cross Environment

Community currencies activism

Camden Shares

Food activism

Cooperation Town – a network of food coops and a strategy for resistance

Author: Real Media, Oct 7, 2020

• Cooperation Kentish Town on facebook

The Calthorpe Project - Kentish Town City Farm - Kings Cross Skip Garden - The People's Supermarket

Open spaces

Camden Highline

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

Food Loop comunity-led food waste recycling project running on Maiden Lane Estate. The aim of Food Loop is to capture the value of the food waste on the estate in order to generate enough income to pay local residents to run and manage the whole system.

Social inclusion

Camden Town Shed

Sustainable transport activism

wikipedia:Regent's Canal

Youth initiatives

• Global Generation

News and comment

2021

The Tale of the Camden Future Journal, Mar 4

2020

Taking a portfolio approach to developing partnerships, @noelito, Oct 28

Camden approves ambitious five-year Climate Action Plan, Jun 11

A successful food-coop in Kentish Town points to considerable prospects for an updated, kindly anarchism, Jan 5

2019

When a neighbourhood assembly becomes a community by @kahui. Dec 16

What if we did it all, in one place? A big idea to bring the future to life in our cities by Friends of the Earth Innovation team. Nov 11

First climate assembly in UK draws up wishlist for council action. Jul 20 ...List of climate assemblies

Alternative.Camden will give people a chance to co-create the future. Jul 3

Citizens Lab 1.0 by Alternative Camden. Apr 23

On the launch of Alt.Cmd [Alternative.Camden] by @joostbeunderman. Jan 22

2015

London's New Road Gives Cyclists Two Way Street & Sends Drivers One Way, November 11

2011

Local Government Minister Calls for Camden Council to support The People's Supermarket, March 3

Resources

Community resources

Castlehaven Community Association

Visions

• Visioning Camden 2030, wordpress.com, added 15:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC), "An excellent example of community-led visioning for the future by @tkentishtown, @thinkdocamden, with poems, projects, illustrations from citizens young & old. Embodies the "from what is to what if" call from @robintransition" @noelito
• Camden 2025

Events

2019

• Nov 21 - 30 Pop-up Think & Do community space for climate and eco action, camden.gov.uk

Campaigns

Camden Friends of the Earth

CASwiki... Places - Topics - Resources - News / About - Join - Talk - Village pump / UK

External links

• Wikipedia: London Borough of Camden

Green action for change information from Camden Council