Today the North London Waste Authority is meeting with the intention of agreeing the construction of a new Edmonton Incinerator that will emit 700,000 tonnes of CO2 pa. Please use the following link to write NOW to your councillors https://docs.googl
Read more…Just as North London councils are about to decide (on Thursday) whether to go ahead with plans to rebuild and enlarge the Incinerator at Edmonton, the all-party parliamentary group on air pollution has published a report saying that all plans to expa
The Bounds Green scheme will be rolled out on an experimental basis from the end of January 2022, with monitoring of air quality and traffic.
The schemes can be changed in response to feedback from residents before they are made permanent.
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Read more…They have asked the North London Waste Authority (which takes the waste from 7 North London boroughs) to pause and review the rebuild of the incinerator. Details in the Ham&High:
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/local-council/haringey-council-asks-nlwa
Read more…If you are thinking about refurbishing your home - adding sustainable energy sources (solar panels, water heaters etc.), insulating walls, getting new windows - you may like to see what other local people have done and talk to them about it. Muswell
Read more…Cosy up for winter in a green home and guard against spiralling fuel bills!
Join an in-person or online tour, or listen in to an online advice event and get ideas for greening your own home.
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Read more…The weather cleared (amazingly) for XR and Muswell Hill Sustainability Group's Burning Ballroom and Die-In in Muswell Hill yesterday afternoon - drawing attention to the urgency of positive outcomes to the climate conference COP26. As Greta Thunberg
Glitzy awards ceremony at Ally Pally, with big names presenting and performing:
Every year from 2021 until 2030, The Earthshot Prize will find and reward solutions to the five ‘Earthshot’ goals, to protect and restore nature, revive our oceans, to cl
Read more…from Sustainable Haringey:
Friday 5th November
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Crescent Gardens N22 (oppo
Read more…Hi, I'm looking to build a small eco (passive) house. The house would be approx 60sqm, so quite small. Looking for a home owner with either a very large garden, ideally with side access, or a garage you no longer use? The main build of the house woul
Read more…Hello neighbours!
For anyone interested in doing home refurbishments the government has launched a new Green Homes Grant scheme. It will fund up to two-thirds of the cost of home improvements up to £5,000. Those homeowners with low-incomes, including those on certain
Read more…Ask for your street to be considered for a Play Street on London Car Free Day, or a Healthy School Street, or various other options via this site. Somebody has already requested that Crescent Road in the Palace Gates neighbourhood has a Play Street f
From the Ham&High:-
Muswell Hill’s Extinction Rebellion (XR) group stopped traffic around the high street on Friday in their first post-lockdown demo to raise awareness of the climate crisis.
Activists sang “rise up” as they marched from Planet Organ
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This week the North London Waste Authority, comprised of councillors from Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest is set to take a decisive step towards building a gigantic new waste incinerator to replace the existi
Read more…The Council have launched an interactive Commonplace Map for residents and business owners to identify cycle routes and low traffic neighbourhoods (info. on these here) that will assist social distancing in the borough. You can enter your own suggest
Read more…This winter our Thermal Imaging Group (TIG) volunteers will survey local homes using a thermal imaging camera to detect heat loss. Images like the one above show heat loss and suggest where insulation or draughtproofing could cut fuel bills and carb
Read more…The huge turnout of school and university students worldwide to demand action on the climate and ecological emergency, in the runup to the UN climate summit COP25 next week, has received good coverage in at least some of the media. There was also a g
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