Category: London

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London’s Polluted Air

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See Air Pollution – Local effects from Global Causes for a round up of regulations, North London’s Air for more on journey types and what Camden and Haringey can do, and Your Car for information on clean cars – particularly Electric models.

Click here for Waking Up to Poisonous Air , showing this Green Party map of local air quality results:

For daily information at London Air Quality Network click here.
For Defra’s daily air forecasts click here.
For daily Air Text Alerts of Air Quality click here or here.

For Real Time Air Quality information for London click here.

For a CleanSpace Mobile App with a personal monitoring tag click here. (Note: the Tag costs £75, but signing up does offer some incentives, and no responsibility is taken by Transition Highgate for this).

For information about Personal Exposure measuring equipment click here.

Also watch out for the Tzoa wearable device that will measure PM10, PM2.5, dust and pollen, UV, temperature, humidity and atmosphere pressure.

To donate to Client Earths legal action against Defra to abide by the Supreme Court’s order to come up with ambitious new measures to meet EU pollution limits click here. “Your donation will help us fight in the courts for your right to breathe clean air.”

Poor Air Quality affects locations all across the world. See the Air Quality Index for any city to find current pollution levels and also the World Health Organisation database for ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 1600 cities in 91 countries.

Common causes, though they vary in different places, include vehicles, aviation, construction and even domestic boilers. Many of these are sans frontier meaning that co-operation, innovation and regulation has to be at Global, Country (or EU) level.

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Autumn Programme 2013 – London’s Waste

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A TALK ON LONDON’S WASTE PROBLEM AND HOW TO MANAGE IT – Oct 23rd at Highgate Library Chester Rd.

In partnership with Transition Dartmouth Park and given by Mike Webster, Development Manager at the London Community Resource Network.

FROM ‘HUMP IT AND DUMP IT’ – TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY.

Mike discussed ‘Sustainable resource management in London – where we’ve come from, where we are now and where we are going.

This October talk was the final of four about how well prepared London is for the challenge of Climate Change. The first covered ‘Water’, the second ‘Food’, and the third ‘Transport’

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London: Managing Drought and Flood

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Dr Tim Evans (Chairman, CIWEM Wastewater Management Panel and independent environmental consultant) gave a fascinating talk on the 14th March at the Highgate Society about London’s water as part of a series considering one big question:  how well prepared is London to meet the challenge of climate change? The talk was filmed and is available full-length on YouTube. We also have a 15 minute extracts video. The meeting was sponsored by Transition Highgate, Muswell Hill Sustainability Group and Sustainable Haringey.
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