Over 200 fossil fuel ad campaigns shown on TfL network since Sadiq Khan set out ‘zero carbon’ goal
The figures come after UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged every country to ban such advertising
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The Citizen Gardener: ‘In nature, plants look after themselves, but people can forget, go away, or just give up’
Kate Poland’s guide to growing in small spaces, based on her first year as the gardener for an entire Hackney postcode
The Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland on smashing up paving and sowing seeds
Smashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift
A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together
Smash up paving and make space for nature at groundbreaking 10xGreener event
‘If a lot of people make a little space, we can make a difference’, says postcode gardener Kate Poland
The Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has a few tips and tricks for growing in confined conditions
The Citizen Gardener: ‘Insects keep the whole lot of us going’
In the first in a new column, award-winning community gardener Kate Poland tells us the dos and do-nothings that can help our insects
UK’s first ever postcode gardener gets to work in Homerton
Award-winning grower Kate Poland picked to beautify E5 over the next year
Homerton residents launch campaign to hire a gardener for an entire postcode
Crowdfunder builds on recent project to make one road in E5 ten times greener
Hackney councillor Jon Burke wants libraries to lend out power tools and kitchen appliances
But head of free market thinktank says he is sceptical about the idea taxpayer-funded authorities should buy goods on public’s behalf
Council launches £640k recycling rewards scheme despite ‘mixed results’
Government-funded initiative is part of a fresh drive to boost stagnant recycling rates in Hackney, but research suggests such schemes are ‘unreliable’
Revealed: Hackney Council sprays around 1,200 litres of glyphosate in the borough each year
Weedkiller is ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ according to World Health Organisation, but Town Hall says it has been declared safe by the EU
Friends of the Earth create buzz with bee count app
Charity launches Great British Bee Count mobile app launched to track decline in bee population
Expanding City Airport could cause Hackney residents sleepless nights
Sky high pollution levels a risk, argues Adrianna Threpsiadi from Hackney Friends of the Earth
Give bees a chance
Our lives depend on the winged insects, say groups creating a buzz about them
Hackney residents feeling heat of rocketing fuel prices
Fuel poverty, ‘green jobs’ and energy efficiency among the issues raised at public meeting hosted by Friends of the Earth