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Lynmouth Road, Walthamstow is about to become its own power station, with solar energy for 30 homes. Now the artists responsible want us all to change how we heat our homes. By Anna Fielding
Deep beneath London’s suburbs lies a gigantic vegetable garden farming hundreds of thousands of the capital’s freshest microgreens.
Since 2015, Growing Underground has adopted one of eight underground World War Two bomb shelters to grow plentiful, pesticide-free produce. The farming happens entirely indoors, away all from traditional means of harvesting greens. The energy used to farm these foods is 100 per cent renewable. Customers can look forward to supplies of greens such as watercress and micro rocket, as well as herbs like Thai basil and garlic chives.
Drivers could face a £3.50 daily charge to enter Greater London under proposals from the mayor of London to address the capital’s funding crisis.
Sadiq Khan has asked Transport for London to start feasibility studies for the plan to raise £500m a year.
The boundary charge would be levied on vehicles registered outside the capital crossing into the whole of London – an area almost 80 times larger than the central congestion zone.
In 2019, London signed a pledge to become the first National Park City as part of a new drive to convince cities and their residents to be greener, healthier, and wilder. But how will it fulfill its ambitious target to turn 50% of its urban spaces green by 2050?
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Transport for London (TFL) have announced plans to transform parts of central London into “one of the largest car-free zones in any capital city in the world”.
A new ground-breaking project which pays households to store energy to power the grid during peak times begins in South London. Selected households in St. Helier, London are to be provided with batteries courtesy of government-backed company, Powervault, to help support the cities electricity grid with peaks in winter demand and reduce carbon emissions. In 2018, initial trials saw a reduction in household evening peak electricity demand by 60% and helped in cutting carbon emissions from electricity by 20% across the 45 households which took part.
Mayor, who is up for re-election, promises to make the capital carbon neutral by 2030
Resilience in a post-Brexit London.
The City of London Corporation recently announced its plans for the creation of the United Kingdom’s first 24/7 zero-emission street.
In the very heart of the city, Beech Street will be reserved exclusively for pedestrians, cyclists and zero-emission vehicles – as well as electric buses that make up the London’s public transport network. The only exception to the rule will be the City Council’s own vehicles such as waste collectors and emergency vehicles.
Over the course of 18 months, local authorities will be monitoring the effects of the project. If the results of the initiative are satisfying, the zero-emission street will be made permanent following the trial period’s end.
If vehicles in central London don't meet emissions standards, their drivers must pay a daily fine. Six months into the new program, the city says the regulation is decreasing toxic air pollution.
Scheme to pipe ‘waste heat’ from tube into hundreds of Islington homes and businesses
The sweltering temperatures on the tube’s Northern line will soon begin keeping homes in Islington, north London, cosy through the colder months, under a scheme to harness the heat from the underground.
The UK capital London has announced its plans to continue to develop London to make it one of the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) cities, which incorporates an extension to the city's EV charging network.
Almost 1,000 people a year in London are hospitalised with asthma caused by pollution
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has confirmed the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will be expanded to cover all of the capital city to tackle air pollution and congestion.
It will come into effect on 29th August 2023 and will operate across all London boroughs up to the existing Low Emission Zone boundary.
Estimates from Transport for London (TfL) suggests around 160,000 cars and 42,000 vans will be liable for a daily fee of £12.50 on a typical day.
The transformation of a Swedish shipyard into a haven for biodiversity inspired the UK capital’s ‘urban greening factor’ plan
16 November, 2020 − Planting trees and creating urban parks brings more green spaces and cleaner air, cutting heart deaths and saving lives.
The London Underground could soon be entirely powered by renewable energy. The move is part of a plan to make the city’s famous rail network zero-emissions by 2030, and have the entire city become carbon neutral by 2050.
Transport for London (TfL) is London’s biggest electricity consumer, and one of the largest consumers in the UK. It uses 1.6TWh every year, the same as 437,000 average homes.
Older Women's Co-Housing is a group of women who are creating their own community. The complex of 25 private apartments and shared facilities, such as a large garden and space to cook and share meals together, is the first co-living development for older people in the UK. Although the community, which residents’ age ranges between 50 and 90, underlines maintaining a structure without hierarchy, each resident bought and owns her own apartment.
London’s leafy streets and gardens have long been prized for their beauty — and more recently their ability to counteract carbon emissions and improve air quality. But the value of urban trees can also be measured with money. A new report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics estimates tree cover saved the capital more than 5 billion pounds ($6.56 billion) from 2014 to 2018 through air cooling alone. Additionally, by keeping summer temperatures bearable for workers, trees prevented productivity losses of almost 11 billion pounds.
The London City Resilience Strategy was recently unveiled by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. The document is the UK capital’s first-ever resilience strategy and it aims to tackle modern urban challenges – including city safety, climate change and of course, Brexit. The goal of the London City Resilience Strategy is not only to prepare the urban area to deal with the fallout and to recover from an emergency but to also bolster its crisis prevention efforts.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched a new green energy company which will be exclusive to Londoners.
Sadiq Khan has launched a landmark fair-priced, green energy company, available exclusively to Londoners to cut fuel bills and help make the capital a zero-carbon city.
London Power is a landmark partnership between the Mayor and Octopus Energy, which aims to make London’s homes warm, healthy and affordable, its workplaces more energy efficient, and to supply the capital with more local clean energy.
The City of London Corporation (CLC) has announced that the capital will get its first zero-emissions street.
Beech Street, much of which runs under the Barbican Estate, will now be restricted to zero emission vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians by Spring 2020. This new initiative is subject to final approval by Transport for London (TfL).
Emergency vehicles will be exempt from the restriction and there will be access to the car parks off Beech Street and for refuse collection and deliveries. Bus route 153, which is fully electric and runs down Beech Street, will also be unaffected by the changes.
Officials in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets tried to close a residential road to car traffic for 10 days. But taxi-driving protesters had other ideas.
A new initiative will see the London Underground used as a way to heat homes in the city.
A new Islington Transport Strategy details several measures that will be implemented by the borough to promote accessible and sustainable transport for all.
Using waste heat from the Underground and other sources, the Council has established a ground-breaking combined heat and power facility to heat local homes.
In order to prevent thousands of premature deaths, the mayor of London is fast-tracking measures that improve air quality in the city
Rushing the timetable for the introduction of environmental protection measures, the mayor of London has brought the introduction of an Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) forward from 2020 to 2019. The ULEZ is part of a broader package of measures that the city is gradually introducing in order to tackle the health crisis caused by severe air pollution. Every citizen of London currently lives in an area that exceeds World Health Organisation guidelines for most dangerous toxic particles. This in turn causes thousands of premature deaths each year and children in more than 450 schools in the capital are exposed to the dangerously toxic in air in the area.
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