Post Tagged with: "Air pollution"

  • Promoting World Car Free Day in Islington

    Clean air campaigners joined forces in Islington on Saturday in order to promote World Car Free Day to reduce air pollution in the borough. The group, including Climate Rush and Green Party activists as well as a very pollution conscious dog, handed out leaflets and chalked slogans in car parking spaces […]

     
  • Make today’s priority a cleaner London

    For the first time in a London Mayoral election environmental issues have really come to the fore. Whether it’s the glorious cycle campaigners, cutting air pollution, or how to get our public transport eco-friendly we’ve seen these issues force themselves onto the candidates in no uncertain manner. It’s estimated that […]

     
  • Time to clean up London’s air

    Yesterday clean air campaigners came together to demand action over air pollution. The protest organised by activists from Climate Rush comes at a time of growing concern over the health effects of air pollution. Campaigners assembled just as the driving rain cleared away which was either lucky (as it allowed […]

     
  • Spring Clean: Thursday 19th April

    Thursday 19th April 2012, 6pm Outside DEFRA, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR  Walk & Cycle March, Rally and Direct Action Join the event on Facebook SPEAKERS CONFIRMED: Jenny Jones, Green Party London Mayoral Candidate and London Assembly member. Alan Andrews, lawyer for Air Quality issues at Client Earth Join us for […]

     
  • Is pollution suppressor large scale fraud?

    The Mayor’s policy of gluing pollution to the roads has, it is fair to say, met with a touch of ridicule from environmental campaigners. It has long been suspected that this policy has more to do with meeting air quality targets (and therefore avoiding being fined) as it has to […]

     
  • Friday’s London Links

    The Guardian reports on London’s eco-straws wars. Camden Council axes award winning play service. Brent and Kilburn Times. Mayor Watch on campaigners launching their clean air London manifesto. Croydon seems to have lost £50million in tax. Inside Croydon is perplexed. 853 is delighted that Greenwich is now a Royal Borough. […]

     
  • Video: sign the petition against Dirty Boris

    This video appeal from Assembly Member Darren Johnson asks us to sign the online petition to call on Boris Johnson to clean up the air along heavily polluted runs that run near to 1,148 schools in Greater London. You can also download a copy and take it around to parents at your […]