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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Aug 24

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-...

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 5

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 oncestock car and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish...

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 16

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...

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...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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CPRE London @cprelondon.bsky.social · Aug 14

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...

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.

www.cprelondon.org.uk

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 9

25% funded already! Keep donating and sharing 💚

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 8

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 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. 💚🌱

www.crowdjustice.com

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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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

action.eko.org

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

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

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Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social · Jul 21

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 ⭐️

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

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Jul 15

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

Enfield Dispatch @enfielddispatch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Khan's office approves Spurs plans for Whitewebbs

Campaigners have expressed their disappointment as decision paves way for 16 hectares of parkland to be enclosed by the Premier League club
enfielddispatch.co.uk/khans-office...

Khan's office approves Spurs plans for Whitewebbs

Campaigners have expressed their disappointment as decision paves way for 16 hectares of parkland to be enclosed by the Premier League club

enfielddispatch.co.uk

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Jul 16

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!

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HackneyGreens.org.uk @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Jul 13

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...

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Jul 3

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...

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · May 20

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

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

www.theguardian.com

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · May 20

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

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · May 20

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...

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...

www.nature.com

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · May 20

"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...

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

www.independent.co.uk

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · May 20

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/...

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Apr 28

Australia sees nearly 40% decline in plastic pollution along major city coastlines www.the-independent.com/climate-chan...

Australia sees nearly 40% decline in plastic pollution along major city coastlines

Country has pledged to phase out unnecessary plastics by 2025 and recycle or reuse all its plastic waste by 2040

www.the-independent.com

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Thames21 @thames21.bsky.social · Mar 24

📞We would like to celebrate London's rivers and we want you to join us. This is vital if we are going to make these beautiful arteries part of our daily lives and make them as healthy as possible.🧵⬇️

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Mar 25

Beating the Bounds 2025!

Join us on Sunday 25 May at 2pm on the towpath outside The Princess of Wales pub for our biennial walk

This year, as part of The LoveLea Festival, we'll walk the route of the Old River Lea on #HackneyMarshes

More info on our website saveleamarshes.org.uk/2025/03/24/b...

Beating the Bounds of the Old River Lea!

Beating the Bounds is a traditional walk that marks significant boundaries, such as the boundaries of a parish, a manor, commons or another important public open space. The event usually takes plac…

saveleamarshes.org.uk

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