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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Enfield Independent: "North London Waste Authority hits back against MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, Lynne Featherstone, and Pinkham Way Alliance"

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Link to web site "A waste disposal authority has hit back after an MP supported a petition to stop a waste plant campaigners say ...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Evening Standard: "Crossrail 2 [to Alexandra Palace] could be worth £49bn to London, says Assembly report"

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Link to web site "The Crossrail 2 rail project linking north and south London could boost the capital’s economy by as much as £49...
Sunday, 28 July 2013

Winning Your Wings (1942)

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Saturday, 27 July 2013

WembleyMatters: "A round up of messages to the 'racist van'"

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Friday, 26 July 2013

LetsRecycle: "Councils warn Defra over 2020 landfill targets"

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Link to web site "The UK is in danger of missing 2020 landfill targets as councils are collecting more waste, recycling rates are...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013

BBC: "Arctic methane 'time bomb' could have huge economic costs"

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Link to web site "Scientists say that the release of large amounts of methane from thawing permafrost in the Arctic could have h...
Saturday, 20 July 2013

Sun 21 July: Finchley Society Alexandra Palace Walk

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"Final reminder for this Sunday's walk - meet outside East Finchley tube station at 11-45am for a 12 noon start. I have attac...

Daily Telegraph: "Floating 'plastispheres' may provide answer to disposing of plastic in landfill"

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Link to web site "A study of the fragments of plastic found floating in the oceans has revealed more than 1,000 different types o...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Muswell Hill Sustainability Group: "No time for pessimism"

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MHSG founder member Nancy Hocking writes: "Professor Michael Jacobs brought good news to Muswell Hill Methodist Hall. The former ...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

Salon: "The age of revolution: 1989-2013, and counting"

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"From the Berlin Wall to Cairo, we live in an era of anti-authoritarian revolution that may transform the world" Link to web...
Thursday, 4 July 2013

Tues 9 July: "Create Solutions - Design Waste out of Our Bins!"

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Link to web site "A creative, constructive workshop to redesign the products voted as the things that most drive us nuts in the P...

Sun 21 July: A Big Ally Pally Do

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"Join us to celebrate 150 years of the extraordinary." "150 years ago, Alexandra Park was opened by the renowned lan...

Barnet Times

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Monday, 1 July 2013

Thu 25 July: "Do the Math(s) - The Movie"

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"It's on Thursday 25 July, at the Gallery Cinema , in St Margaret's Chapel , 21 Old Ford Road (just by Bethnal Green tube...

Incident at Pinkham Way Recycling Centre?

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Link to Evening Standard "Ten firefighters have been injured tackling a blaze involving 100,000 tonnes of plastic recycling mater...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Enfield Advertiser: "Fears over North Circular fumes"

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Link to web site "TOXIC FUMES churned out by traffic along one of the busiest roads in the borough are slowly poisoning residen...

The Independent: "A bridge across London's north/south divide: Treasury gives £12bn Crossrail 2 project funds to get started"

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Link to web site "The Government is ready to announce the first steps towards building a new railway linking north and south Lond...
Thursday, 20 June 2013

[Reposted] RSA: "What is the Great Recovery - Redesigning the Future?"

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Link to web site "The current economic and environmental challenges of Take,            Make,             Dispose manuf...
Monday, 17 June 2013

The Guardian: "Trash to cash: Norway leads the way in turning waste into energy"

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Link to web site "For a country blessed with bountiful oil supplies, it may appear incongruous. But Norway is importing as much r...
Monday, 10 June 2013

Vancouver Observer: "Trashed: documentary shines light on global waste crisis"

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Link to 'Trashed' web site "Killer whales so contaminated that they were classified as toxic waste. A once-beautiful...
Saturday, 8 June 2013

Daily Telegraph: "Time Reborn: From the Crisis of Physics to the Future of the Universe, by Lee Smolin, review"

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Link to web site "Quite a few feel that an overhaul of what we mean by 'time' could lead to the next great leap in physic...
Thursday, 6 June 2013

Barnet Press: "Hundreds turn out for vigil in support of Islamic centre destroyed by fire"

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Link to web site "HUNDREDS of people came together this evening, to hold vigil outside the Islamic community centre in Muswell Hi...
Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Dailt Telegraph: "Village rallies around couple living 'The Good Life' aboard double-decker bus"

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Link to web site "A couple who live in a double-decker bus and grow their own food have won a six-year battle to keep up their ...
Monday, 3 June 2013

Foodtank: "21 Inspiring Initiatives Working to Reduce Food Waste Around the World"

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Link to web site "This week we’re celebrating World Environment Day (June 5th) by highlighting innovations working to reduce the ...
Friday, 31 May 2013

BBC: "Thanet village fights 'green' anaerobic digester energy plant"

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Link to web site and iPlayer "Residents in a Kent village are objecting to plans to build an anaerobic digestion plant on farmla...

BBC: "The time when sweets were strictly rationed"

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"The sweet-toothed British public were so keen to taste sugary treats when seven years of sweet rationing ended briefly in 1949 that...

MindBodyGreen: "How Much Do We Really Recycle? (Infographic)"

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Link to web site
Thursday, 30 May 2013

"How the Coronation kick-started the love of television"

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Link to the British Broadcasting Corporation "Television in the early 50s was basic and still waiting to take off. How did the ...

The Guardian: "It's time to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry"

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"It makes no sense to pay for one's pension by investing in companies that make sure we won't have a planet to retire on"...

Phys.org: "Dire outlook despite global warming 'pause': study"

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Link to web site "A global warming 'pause' over the past decade may invalidate the harshest climate change predictions f...

Sat 8 June: Campaign Against Climate Change

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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

North London Waste Authority: "Statement on tree management work at Pinkham Way"

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May 29, 2013 "Some residents have expressed an interest in tree management work that NLWA is proposing for the Pinkham Way site. ...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Pinkham Way Alliance: "NLWA - Tree Preservation Application"

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"There’s an urgent and unexpected Haringey consultation that we must briefly comment on. Please respond right away if you can; we ...
Monday, 20 May 2013

Mon 20 May: 'Trashed' film, plus Q&A with Director Candida Brady and Waste Watch

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Link to The Ritzy Cinema, Brixton "Join us for a Q&A after the screening with director Candida Brady and Tim Burns from Wast...
Sunday, 19 May 2013

"Why Green Roofs Don't Work - and How to Fix Them"

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Link to Scientific American "Researchers are trying to identify the best plant species suitable to green roofs , with an eye to d...

Sun 19 May: PWA Cafe Cabaret

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Friday, 17 May 2013

London in Colour film, 1927

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London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo .
Wednesday, 15 May 2013

The Independent: "First Poundbury, now Bahrain: Should Prince Charles really be selling town planning to despots?"

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Link to web site "For much of the world, Bahrain is notable for unpalatable reasons related to its repression of democracy prote...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Crossrail Two consultation starts: but it reaches Alexandra Palace, either way!

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Not to mention: Transport for London Consultation opens on proposed routes for Crossrail 2 "The Mayor of London, Boris Johns...