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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Haringey Independent: "Alexandra Palace chief executive hopes regeneration will gain momentum"

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Climb the hill to the web site "During the coming months, trustees of Ally Pally will find out if they have been successful with...

Daily Telegraph: "We throw away half our food"

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Peel for the Daily Telegraph web site "The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimated that between 30 and 50 per cent of food ...
Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Evening Standard: "Tube boss: we need £12 billion for vital Piccadilly and Bakerloo line upgrades"

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Link to web site "The London Tube boss today warned that passengers could suffer years of disruption because of a £12 billion fu...

Les squatteurs de la Barnet contre l'ordonnance d'expulsion

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"Phoenix et son pote, squatteurs (via  brokenbarnet )" Link above to 'Microsoft Translator', then wait a few seconds ...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

And now for something completely different: Is it a Particle? Is it a Wave?

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"Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens" Link to New Scientist (May need free registration) "One day in ...

BBC: "Climate model forecast is revised"

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Link to web site "The UK Met Office has revised one of its forecasts for how much the world may warm in the next few years. ...

Evening Standard: "Councils are ignoring the Government by threatening to fine residents £1,000 if they don't recycle."

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Link to Daily Telegraph "Martin Hunt, Colchester Borough Council's waste boss, has applied for new powers under the Environm...

"Lengthy Austerity? Financial Instability? Housing Crisis? Military Redundancies? Modest Politicians, with much to be modest about?" Well, at least we've put all that behind us...

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Sunday, 6 January 2013

[Reposted] 11 Aug 2009: Sale of "Former Friern Barnet Sewage Works at Pinkham Way"

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Barnet Cabinet: 11 August 2009 "To recommend the disposal of the site to the North London Waste Authority." 1. RECOMMEN...
Saturday, 5 January 2013

'Freedom Pass': New route map (Dec 2012)

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FreedomPassMapDecember12[1] More details: here And for the route of the new east-west light railway across outer north London...

The Independent: "A ballooning problem: the great helium shortage"

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Link to web site "The supply of helium, an inert element with the lowest boiling point of any known substance, has now become so...
Friday, 4 January 2013

Barnet Times

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Barnet Times: "Squatters will launch two-pronged attack to prevent eviction from Friern Barnet Library"

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Link to Barnet Times "Squatters occupying Friern Barnet Library will appeal against their eviction from the building while commu...
Thursday, 3 January 2013

[Reposted] Harris + Hoole artisan coffee shop 'has spilled beans' on Tesco ownership

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Link to The Guardian " 'I thought: 'That's very brave, opening up next to Starbucks,"' Bridget Chappell, a ...

BBC: "Concord, Massachusetts bans sale of small water bottles"

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Link to web site "The US town of Concord in Massachusetts has banned the sale of bottled water in units smaller than one litre. ...

Daily Telegraph: "Cost of food 'not going to stop' rising, warns UK chief scientist"

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Link to web site "Food price inflation will only get worse, as the rising global population and climate change add to the volati...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Fri 18 Jan: Friern Barnet Cabaret

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Tuesday, 1 January 2013

The Independent: "The 20mph revolution: Millions of drivers face lower speed limits as new laws sweep the country"

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Link to The Independent "In what is being hailed by campaigners as a 'cultural shift' - as well as a significant reversa...
Monday, 31 December 2012

'The Times': "Secrets of recycling success rubbish Eric Pickles’ bin policy"

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Link to 'The Times' subscription web site "A combination of fortnightly dustbin rounds and separate food waste collection...
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The Guardian: "Single men found to be rubbish at putting out the recycling"

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"Women are doing more than their fair share of recycling, while single people living alone are less likely to recycle" Link t...

Andrew Dismore AM: "Local Assembly Members welcome decision from Waste Authority to abandon Pinkham Way plan"

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Recent PWA protest meeting in Friern Barnet Link to Andrew Dismore web site "Local Labour London Assembly Members Joanne McCartn...

Barnet Greens: "Stop the £4.7 bn North London Waste privatisation – the battle goes on!"

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Link to web site "It’s great news that Veolia has withdrawn from the bidding for the North London Waste Authority’s £4.7 billion...

North London Waste Authority statement

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"The information recently released about the Authority’s procurement process, and plans for its site at Pinkham Way, is the only inf...

Pinkham Way Alliance statement

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"The new that the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) no longer intends to put a mechanical and biological treatment (MBT) waste pl...

[Reposted from July 2011] NLWA plans new Edmonton incinerator - and it DOES have a 'Plan B'

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The 'North London Waste Authority' Confidential Minutes, below (from an NLWA meeting held at about the time as the 'Pinkham Way...
Sunday, 30 December 2012

The Guardian: "We need a coalition of resistance against local council cuts"

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"Barnet Blogger Therese Musgrove, with her avatar at [Friern] Barnet Library; her group campaigned against services cuts." L...

[Reposted] Waste site near to housing? See the Willesden example

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Link to the Ealing Incinerator (Ealing is the 'Queen of the Suburbs', traditionally)

'Green Alternatives to Incineration in Scotland'

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Link to web site "Waste incineration is fundamentally unsustainable, recovering only a tenth of the energy used to make the prod...
Saturday, 29 December 2012

Evening Standard: 26 Photographs of the Year

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Click for the other 25.

# The Folk in Friern Barnet #

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Link to song (click near top of screen) "Dedicated to the folk running Friern Barnet People's Library, who occupied the bui...
Friday, 28 December 2012

PLASTICIZED ~ Feature Documentary Film

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Daily Telegraph: "Up to a fifth of recycling is 'contaminated'"

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Link to Daily Telegraph "The Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) admit that the amount of 'contamin...
Thursday, 27 December 2012

If 'Nu-Barnet' (c) ran Christmas...

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'A visit to Father Christmas' Link to 'Flip Chart Fairy Tales' ... Little Johnny: "Actually, I asked you for...
Saturday, 22 December 2012

'The Independent': Overpackaging: An alternative

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"It sells everything you could ever need for a great meal. There's only one catch –  it won't give you anything to take it...

David Burrowes MP: Christmas present

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"This is excellent news for all the tireless campaigners, who have made it clear that the Pinkham Way site was totally inappropriat...

Enfield Bowes Labour: Great victory

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No MBT plant at Pinkham Way "North London Waste Authority just announced that they are withdrawing plans for a Mechani...
Friday, 21 December 2012

Haringey LibDems: "Campaigners rejoice as Pinkham Way application canned"

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"Plans to build a waste plant at Pinkham Way have been withdrawn, after a long fought campaign by local residents. The North London...

NLWA reacts to new PWA web site by announcing abandonment of Pinkham Way Biological & Mechanical Treatment Plant! (Well, there COULD be a connection)

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"The North London Waste Authority has received notification from Veolia Environmental Services that they will not be submitting fi...