sustainability

Olympics and the local community.

Who will win the Londonist gold medal for the GLAthletics?

He’s pondering a 5p levy on single use plastic bags but what about a plastic-bag free Games, eh?

The ODA will miss some sustainability targets. This is not good, but it’s even worse in our heads thanks to BBC4.

Prince Charles has won planning permission to install 32 solar panels on the roof of his London home. Clarence House, his furtive pseudo-palace between the Mall and Pall Mall, is already ‘carbon neutral’, thanks to carbon offsetting, efficient boilers and reliance on energy generated from …

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 …

By platdujour If you missed the amazing feeding of the five thousand, freegan style, in Trafalgar Square late last year you can get a taste of communal dining comprising food that would otherwise have gone to waste on a more intimate scale at Arcola Theatre, …

By deluxis Proof that we’re thinking more locally and sustainably comes from a new study carried out on behalf of the South East Food Group partnership, that says 2 out of 3 Londoners buy, or would like to buy, more local food. It also finds …

View Climate Camp Swoop Points in a larger map Some will condone, some condemn the Climate Camp activity, which begins today. Whichever side of the divide you’re on, you might be interested to know whether any of the demonstrating parties are moving through your neighbourhood. …

Last we heard, Boris was all up for Londoners sprouting veg in their nooks and crannies to feed the Olympian influx from our own rooftops, windowsills, back yards and balconies. Great, in theory, but left to our own devices we keep buying bags of salad. …