Nick Gardner and Mark Shearer Frustrated by “sodding confusing, political and opinionated” advice on how and why to be green, Mark Shearer and Nick Gardner decided London needed Project Dirt. It’s a south London facing website that provides a platform for projects with an eco-friendly …
Get to Tate Modern for 4pm today if you want to support a major new campaign to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The 10:10 initiative aims to squeeze emissions by 10% in 2010, hence the scripture-esque ’10:10′ moniker. The former power station seems an apt place …
Plans are in for two ‘green’ buildings for London. A refurbishment project for the Edward Woods Estate in Shepherds Bush would fit wind turbines and over 1,200sq m of solar panels to the three towers, which should generate enough power to run the lifts, communal …
Image courtesy of Jamie McK from the Londonist Flickr pool Boris wants to make London “the electric car capital of Europe”. He’s announced plans to get 100,000 electric cars on our streets, including 1,000 GLA vehicles by 2015 as well as bringing charging points to …
Everyone’s at it: climate change activists have once again utilised the humble power of the superglue as a method of protest. Protestors glued their hands to the glass at the headquarters of coal giants BHP Billiton in Victoria, to demonstrate against further use of coal …
Greenness is certainly suffering mixed fortunes today. For a start, Mayor Boris had originally moved to save trees, only this evening to reverse Ken’s planned £25 CO2 congestion charge hike. Into the bargain he also thanked Porsche for donating their subsequent legal costs paid by …
Love London is a “green-up” festival packed with 3 weeks of “eco-events’. We mentioned the Green Tours last week but there’s much much more going on, starting with the Recycled Sculpture Show at ZSL which hosted the launch of the festival last Thursday. Previously lumbered …
Tra la, it’s May, the lusty month of May – and we, apparently, feel like singing. Is it the gorgeous weather? The lovely literary events in our diary? Our trips up and down the too-hot-to-trot Northern Line? The Pimm’s coursing through our veins? (No, surely …
Something surprising is happening in our fair river: Conservationists have found seahorses among the muck in the Thames. More exciting, the seahorses are a rare short-snouted breed — Hippocampus hippocampus, for you bio fiends out there — that usually live around the Canary Islands and …
Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to …
After the (non-)scandal of (un-)banned Tube posters, the works of Lucas Cranach the Elder are now well and truly on show at the Royal Academy. Painter, print-maker, illustrator, businessman, propagandist, and huge fan of the female nude, this is Cranach’s first major exhibition in Britain. …
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