Campaigns
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Stop rip-off gas and electricity bills
Muswell Hill Sustainability Group supports fair pricing for gas and electricity. Please sign the petition at http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/big-six-energy-petition#petition to put the pressure on the Big 6 to reduce their prices. The Big 6 currently produce only 8% of their energy from renewable sources. If you want to switch to a supplier using a much bigger proportion of … Continue Reading
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Fracking
Cara Jenkinson, Chair of MHSG, writes “I am deeply concerned that it now seems more and more likely that fracking will be allowed to proceed apace in the UK. In addition to the concerns around earthquake risk, water pollution has been a real issue in the US with benzene and methane found in drinking water. … Continue Reading
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Low carbon zone nears completion
Muswell Hill Traders gave us an exciting Green Day on 31 March 2012. Up and down the Broadway there were musicians, go-go dancers, conjurors and jugglers. And rickshaws did the rounds, carrying customers round the shops to buy discounted green merchandise. Tucked away in the Crocodile Café was a Green Grotto where the MHSG had … Continue Reading
Low carbon awards for Alan and Kate
There was prize giving in the Green Grotto on 31 March 2012 and inevitably Alan Morton, our Prime Mover of the Low Carbon Zone and other sustainability projects in Muswell Hill, was up for an Oscar. He outlined MHSG’s plans for extending our 100 homes project into other neighbourhoods (Bounds Green, the Harringay Ladder, Crouch … Continue Reading
Come and meet us on Saturday 31 March!
As part of the Muswell Hill Traders “Green is Good” event, Muswell Hill Sustainability will be celebrating the end of the Low Carbon Zone project with music, freebies and awards. We’ll also have a fun, interactive stall persuading local shoppers to answer Carbon Quizes in exchange for Easter Eggs (Fairtrade of course!). Whilst the Low … Continue Reading
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Co-housing coming to Muswell Hill!
Well done to Ruth Schamroth and team at North London Sustainable Housing Partnership for inspiring the recent acquisition by Hanover Housing Association of the former Saint Luke’s hospital site in Muswell Hill (see www.hanover.org.uk/cohousing-group-inspires-a326m-deal-for-st-lukes-site-in-muswell-hill. MHSG supports Ruth who says ”we believe that this will be good for the local community. Hanover is a not-for-profit organisation and is … Continue Reading
Reducing food waste on the Broadway
According to WRAP, the waste action group, , 5.3m tonnes of still-edible food is thrown away each year. The Best Before project www.bestbefore.org.uk has the desperately sensible mission of redistributing unsold food from retailers which is past its Best Before date, to those who will benefit from it such as soup kitchens and community groups. … Continue Reading
WE HELP THE METHODISTS GO SOLAR
Crowds flocked to the Methodist Garden Party on Saturday afternoon, 25 June 2011 where our 39 solar panels were on public display for the first time. All the traditional elements in a Garden Party were there, including cream teas and a brass band; and Alan Morton took the mic to tell a respectful audience how … Continue Reading
Compost giveaway
Remember all that green and food waste you put out for the Little Green men to collect? Well, it’s been processed in the Edmonton Eco Park and is now being returned to the community as compost by courtesy of the Council, the Warner Estates Residents Association and the Muswell Hill Sustainability Group. So roll up … Continue Reading
March Stalls on the Broadway
Mike Goldwater and Peter Thompson on one of the stalls Muswell Hill Sustainability and Muswell Low Carbon Zone set up on the Broadway. We were running a membership drive every Saturday and Sunday this March and making the LCZ better known to the public. It went well with a lot of positive response from the … Continue Reading
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Guardian Environment blog
- Flash floods are on the rise, while the budget to tackle them sinks | Bob Ward
- How much impact did the North Sea gas leak have on the environment? | Erin Hale
- Web chat: Desertec Foundation
- Should a tidal barrage be built across the Severn estuary? | Leo Hickman
- Don't dismiss geoengineering – we may need it one day | James Wilsdon
- Charles Rothschild's incredible legacy on the Wildlife Trust's 100th birthday | Tony Juniper
- Scientists find a way to bring down cost of producing 'artificial leaf' | Erin Hale
- UK's only carbon-neutral chocolate arrives by sailing ship | John Vidal
- Goshawk's nest destroyed in Peak District grouse-shooting area
- Sheffield guarantees a wildflower meadow in bloom for the Olympic Games
