Post Tagged with: "Video"

• Music: Kilburn High Road – Jonny Granville

  While we’re singing about Kilburn, Jonny Granville has a different take on the place. Great stuff.

   

• Video: We all make the games

  We all make the Games. Willing or not.

   

• Tarzan of Bounds Green

  A delightful short film by Tom Tagholm. Eric Bromberger remembers the day he watched Johnny Weissmuller dive at his local pool, Durnsford Road in Bounds Green in a special one-off performance. Today, the pool is Haringey’s Sunshine Garden Centre. Who, among those buying their pot plants and compost, would imagine that Tarzan […]

   

• Video: Camden Trader speaks out against Olympic copyright rules

  Incredible leaflet issued by Camden Council to local traders.

   

• Video: Gender and climate change

  At this weekend’s Campaign Against Climate Change Conference in SOAS there was a fascinating session on gender and climate change to coincide with the Rio Summit. Here Camden Green Party’s Natalie Bennett discusses the issues;

   

• Video: Bassett Street Community Garden

  Big Smoke spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, on a fantastic little community garden project in Camden. It’s great that Camden Council was open minded enough to help support this initiative involving members of the community finding new ways to both fight austerity and make the […]

   

• Massive Wind Turbine project in the Thames Estuary (progress report)

  The London Array is a massive wind energy project based in the Thames Estuary that should provide a significant amount of London’s energy. They have produced a progress report on the ambitious initiative that involves 175 large turbines providing renewable energy for the capital. The project should be online by […]

   

• Video: Doggy Dilemma

  There’s something about this that really tickles me. Enjoy.

   

• Interview: Tom Moggach, urban kitchen gardener

  We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, about his new book and the idea of following your food from seed right through to wolfing it down. We pledge to you, here at Big Smoke, never to interview anyone with a chicken on their lap again. Hens […]

   

• Video: Stop Croydon Incinerator

  This Stop the Croydon Incinerator March took place on Sunday 13 May 2012. A number of Croydon and Sutton organisations joined together to protest the building of a waste incinerator in Croydon – one of the most densely populated areas in the UK. The March started at Croydon University Hospital […]