Sustainable Hackney

The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition.

🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/

Petition: Stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 to Protect Nature We think the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 threatens irreplaceable habitats, weakens environmental protections, and ignores pressures on public services. We urge the Government to withdraw it ...

Please sign and share the petition

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick.

STOP the Planning & Infrastructure Bill ⚠️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Campaigners outside Thames Water HQ demanding they say no to Thames Water’s proposal to be allowed to dump sewage for the next 15 years.

“Head of OFWAT hear us say, Thames Water NO way!”

OFWAT is considering allowing Thames Water to break the rules and dump sewage in our rivers and seas for the next 15 years.

We are outside OFWAT HQ to demand they say NO!

Flood risk building on the Thames Water Depot Google map illustrating the site’s proximity to the Old River Lea and Lee Navigation The following text is adapted from a speech that Save Lea Marshes was intending to give last year. Waltham…

In our latest blog, we explore the flood risk associated with building on the Thames Water Depot and how the transformation of the site into @elwaterworks.bsky.social would mitigate flood risk - a fitting local response to a Climate & Nature Emergency

www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/10/14/f...

Aim: One street. 20 solar roofs. 30% savings. Help us show 100 communities how to copy this across Britain. Every street a POWER STATION! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/themillion

This film! This whole project! Artists that make things happen
#PowerStation #solarstreet #DanEdelstyn #HilaryPowell
https://streetbystreet.power.film/doughnutday2025/index

Films for Action
POWER STATION
Community-led activism for a solar energy revolution
Friday, November 21st
7.0pm - 9:30pm. Doors open 6.30pm
Panel Discussion
St Paul's Church, West Hackney
182 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7UE
Free - donations welcome
To book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-stat...

The excellent panel for The Line We Crossed
19 Sept 2025, 19:00 – 21:30 (Doors open 18:30)
St Paul's Church Hall, 182 Stoke Newington Rd, London N16 7UE

Films for Action: The Line We Crossed. From the frontlines of climate resistance it traces the quiet unravelling of our protest rights. At St Paul's Church West Hackney 182 Stoke Newington Road, Fri, 19 Sep 2025, Doors open 6:30, Film show and discussion 7 - 9.30
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/films-for-...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!   Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where oncestock car and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish...

Tell Google to look elsewhere! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!   Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Whitewebbs campaigners announce new Judicial Review CPRE London is working to enhance, promote and protect London's green spaces. Love London's beautiful green spaces? Find out more and get involved.

Campaigners in #Enfield have launched a fresh legal challenge to the Council’s decision to construct a private sports facility on top of protected #GreenBelt land in #WhitewebbsPark. See below for more details and links to the CrowdJustice fundraiser👇
www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/whitewe...

Phosphate concentration graph

Nitrogen readings graph

Latest pollution readings on the Old River Lea. Improvement in all indicators, except nitrogen at the Flood Relief Channel @ldnwaterkeeper.bsky.social @thames21.bsky.social

25% funded already! Keep donating and sharing 💚

Save Whitewebbs Park - Fund Our Judicial Review! Whitewebbs Park, Enfield, is under threat from development by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Join us in protecting this beautifully, naturally rewilded park from destruction. 💚🌱

Save Whitewebbs Park!

This beautiful park in Enfield is under threat from the bullldozers.

Donate to help fund the Judicial Review of Enfield Council's decision to let Spurs take over this public park: www.crowdjustice.com/case/savewhi...

Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

Lula: Reject the Devastation Bill Brazil’s Congress just passed a bill that would be the death sentence for the Amazon – but President Lula has 14 days left to veto it! The bill, dubbed the “devastation bill”, will significantly weake

Tell Brazil's President Lula: Stop the bill that would be the end of the Amazon! action.eko.org/a/lula-rejec...

Waterworks Meadow, dry grass and smoke can be seen from two barbeques, to the left and right

Worrying to see that people have been using barbeques at the Waterworks Meadow again.

Zoë & Reiner in front of the sustainable Hackney banner

Zoë with members of Flourish in diversity, Sustainable Hackney and Voyage Youth in front of a banner and under a tree

In the absence of the council's sustainability event, @sustainhackney.bsky.social put on their own!

So many great organisations in the borough from @saveleamarshes.bsky.social to @hackneylcc.bsky.social , mentoring young people in sustainable fashion to creating insect corridors & much more ⭐️

Shocking decision. It's clear none of London's parks and green spaces are safe now.

All the groups with stalls/events at our Sustainable Sunday, this sunday 2-5pm at St Paul's Church, 184 Stoke Newington Road, N16. See you there!

Sustainable Hackney have two great events coming up!

🎬 Film night on Friday 18th July, screening of The Last Tourist

☀️ Sustainable Sunday on the 20th July, join for workshops, games, and refreshments

Looking forward to seeing you there 💚 @sustainhackney.bsky.social

We promise you an informative but fun and friendly afternoon - chat to us and your fellow Hackney residents and visitors before you return home feeling inspired and optimistic about the future of Hackney we can create together. www.sustainablehackney.org.uk/event-detail...

Friday, July 18
Film for Action: The Last Tourist
Travel is at a tipping point.
Friday, July 18 · 7 - 9:30pm
Doors open 6.30pm
St Paul's Church,
182 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7UE
Panel discussion
Free event, donations welcome
Tickets on door or Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-for-a...

Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds

Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn #Climate

EAST ASIA HISTORIC HEAT WAVE

CHINA
131 more stations broke their heat records for May (and many more of High minimums) with up to 43.5C

34C in SOUTH KOREA

JAPAN RECORDS
32.2 Naha (previous was in May 1906 !),33.0 Maehara,30.2 Ikawa,32.7 Yokota,31.3 Kuma,31.0 Yuya,30.7 Takatsu

Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of seed disperser declines and discuss...

One huge problem with the big focus on tree planting is that a forest is not just trees - its a community of interacting plants and animals

Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Live in an area built mainly from concrete? You might develop this condition Asthma is more prevalent in urban settings. Zhebin Yu asnd Erik Melen report

"Even areas without high levels of air pollution, but which were built primarily from concrete and asphalt and lacked green spaces, increased asthma risk by as much as 36 per cent."

Access to green space is not a fluffy extra - it's integral to health.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

Not just building flood defences but maintaining those we've got, restoring peatlands & woodlands & wetlands & urban gardens & all the spongy spaces that absorb water, reducing flood risk. @floodmary.bsky.social speaking at yesterday's EAC.

www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...