Environment - Hackney Citizen (Page 6)

Come along to a summer fun day on Daubeney Fields

Celebrate London National Park City week in Hackney

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Chaos at Town Hall meeting after ‘disgusted’ resident urges council to scrap Walford Road closures

Pollution debate over William Patten Primary stopped by Speaker’s gavel

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Chaos at Town Hall meeting after ‘disgusted’ resident urges council to scrap Walford Road closures

Green Room: Arcola Theatre aims to steal show in Sustainability category at The Stage awards

The magazine gave the Dalston performance hub the nod for its recent LED lighting scheme and its many other environmental credentials

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Nominated: the Arcola Theatre have a chance to win big at The Stage awards. Photograph: Arcola Theatre

Homerton Hospital wins Eden Project award for measuring carbon footprint

NHS Trust has pledged to cut carbon emissions by five per cent

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Homerton Hospital wins Eden Project award for measuring carbon footprint

Client Earth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman, book review – ‘a fight to protect our natural habitat’

The London Fields-based environmental law firm ClientEarth scored another victory last month in their battle for clean air. A new book outlines their philosophies

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Earth, bound: Client Earth’s authors James Thornton (l) & Martin Goodman (r). Images: Scribe Publications

Government must publish air pollution plan after fight by Hackney lawyers ClientEarth

Ministers wanted to delay publication but High Court rules against them

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ClientEarth supporters and the Green Party's Caroline Russell outside court last year. Photograph: ClientEarth

Council’s pension fund’s exposure to CO2 emissions to be slashed in half – but is this too little, too late?

Move may not go far enough to placate environmental campaigners, but pensions committee chairman Councillor Robert Chapman says it is in reality the best arrangement possible

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Town Hall criers: Banners were unfurled to highlight the climate change crisis

Environmental law firm ClientEarth given £100,000 by City of London charity

Grant from the City Bridge Trust will fund a project working with businesses on issue of air pollution

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‘Britain is waiting, Prime Minister’: ClientEarth wins toxic air High Court case

Judge Mr Justice Garnham agrees government should be doing more to deal with air pollution and cites overly-optimistic modelling

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New Lee Valley Ice Centre could put Leyton Marsh at risk, campaigners warn

Save Lea Marshes group vows to protect the ‘vital green lung’ of Leyton Marsh from plans to create an ‘international standard’ ice venue

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leyton marsh credit Caroline Day save lea marshes

‘Hidden’ report reveals air pollution at 27 Hackney schools over EU limits

Primary schools in most deprived boroughs – including Hackney – tend on average to be more exposed to poor air quality, report finds

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‘Hidden’ report reveals air pollution at 27 Hackney schools over EU limits

Counting East London’s eels as they ebb from the River Lea

Once omnipresent in culture and waterways, efforts are now under way to tally – and save – the area’s dwindling eel population

Author: Hackney Citizen