Look out for a herd of freezin’ Friesians this afternoon. A soggy group in cow costumes are touring London on an open-top bus, raising awareness of rainforest-friendly farming. The flash mooooob danced a conga in Covent Garden and spun the MOOcarena in Westminster. The stunt …
Just Do It is a new documentary by Age Of Stupid executive producer Emily James (pictured) tracking UK environmental activists as they take on the police and the establishment. In 2005, she documented the plight of a Hackney cafe due for demolition in The Battle …
Time once again to decrapify the Thames. Each year, Thames21 organises a voluntary cleanup of the river. Old Father Thames is among the cleanest rivers to flow through a capital city, but he’s still prone to a build up of bottles, trolleys and other unsightly …
Dalston, that hub of architectural whimsy (remember last year’s Mill?), has a new spot where the incoming art school dropouts can chill: a roof garden on the top of the Print House building, just off Dalston Lane. Created by Bootstrap, a local training and enterprise …
Hot on the hooves of yesterday’s announcement of the city-wide reuse and repair service launch comes news that equine poo power will fuel the Royal Troop’s new HQ. Dung from the 170 horses, whose duties include “the firing of Royal Salutes in Hyde Park on …
If you rubbed your bleary eyes on the tube this morning you may have been alarmed to clock bovine shaped travellers on your carriage. Cows herded at Euston around 6.30am this morning and joined the early CoMOOte to launch a new Friends of the Earth …
The PDC is towed past County Hall to its mooring place The first privately funded PDC (passive debris collector) was launched on the Thames yesterday. It joins a bobbing fleet of rubbish eaters dotted along the river preventing litter from drifting out to sea and …
Photo / martinhanna A campaign has been launched which aims to combine two of the years major stories — the Gulf oil spill and the World Cup — into a novel, if noisy, protest: a chorus of vuvuzelas outside the international HQ of BP. The …
Looking at London’s Green Corners. What is it? A 200 year old public park and former burial ground in the grounds of St Mary Magdalene Church. Where is it? Set back from Holloway Road with Liverpool Road to the rear, N7 8LT. It has its …
A neat but alarming mashup from IfItWasMyHome.com allows you to place a representation of the Mexican Gulf oil spill over any other part of the globe. Here’s what it would look like if the filthy puddle could somehow spread over the southern UK counties, centered …
By Stephen Iliffe Following winter’s Big Garden Birdwatch, the RSPB urges you to participate in their survey to find out what sings, snuffles, snouts, screeches and shits in your garden between 5-13th June. Just spend one hour monitoring the birdlife in your garden and note …
Get the Londonist Book Of London Pub Crawls for less than the price of a pint. Available now for Kindle.
