Hackney community activism news
Community gardens plot in Clissold Park, part of the successful Growing Communities social enterprise project through which local people can get involved in growing and distributing produce via organic veg box schemes, a farmers' market and a range of urban gardening sites. Attribution: ceridwen
Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Hackney.
2025
2021-2023
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‘I call it botanarchy’: The Hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people, theguardian.com (Sep 28, 2023) - ‘Real’ public engagement must be prioritised for path to net zero to succeed, climateoutreach.org (Sep 05, 2023) — the UPPER Coalition Reports include examples of successful co-designing and collaboration with local citizens, including Camden Think & Do’s programme, Kendal’s Climate Jury, and initiatives in Hull and Hackney
- Amazon's e-cargo bikes and walkers to eat into London carbon footprint, newatlas.com (Jul 04, 2022)
- More flowers, fewer cars: the rewilders turning parking spaces into parks, The Guardian (Jun 22, 2022) — Across the UK and Europe, the ‘parklet’ movement is gaining pace, transforming dead spaces where cars used to be into pockets of green
- Now Building On Planet A, Alternative Editorial (Apr 03, 2022)
Community food systems should be part of the new normal – here's why, New Economics Foundation, Apr 26, 2021...neweconomics.org
2010-2019
Community parklets: Locals invited to apply as council reopens trial programme, Aug 7, 2019...[1]
- This firm is launching the UK's first energy trading community in Hackney, Nov 22, 2017...[2]
- We Went To London's First Zero Waste Shop And This Is What We Found, Sep 13, 2017...[3]
- Campaigners demand 'mini Holland' in Hackney after Walthamstow success, Nov 11, 2016...[4]
- Pedal power: kids set world record for annual Bike Around the Borough, Jul 8, 2016...[5]
- Theatre's green dream boosted by cash for carbon-neutral heating, October 22, 2015...[6]
- Hackney estate's solar project starts 'community energy revolution', October 6, 2015...[7]
- The Edible Map of Hackney, August 30, 2010...[8]
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