TransitionE11

Volunteers welcome for our Community Fridge! Please contact me if you're able to help - daytimes between 12-3. Reliability opening times are of paramount importance!

The @theeconomist visited our pioneering Eco-Show Home earlier this year to find out how older housing can be transformed into the highest energy efficiency rating through retrofitting and technology 🏠💡🌲 orlo.uk/34ZOh 👉 Find out more here: orlo.uk/Eco_Home_WF_Ye…

Can't believe our #Leytonstone Community Fridge @HubbubUK has been nominated for #PrideofWF2022 Award @wfcouncil! A big thank you to our nominators, and an even bigger one to all our cheerful and dedicated volunteers past, present...and future!

The @SoilAssociation's #OutToLunchUK campaign has revealed how attractions are “slicing, dicing and ditching” children’s menus as they battle rising ingredient costs and staff shortages. Please share their tweet in support twitter.com/SoilAssociatio…

Plants to build #climatechange climate-change resilience into your garden @lisaocarroll @The_RHS theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Labour's mission should be to create a UK economy that's regenerative & distributive by design - one that meets the needs of all within the means of the living planet. Aiming for 'growth' simply won't deliver on that. @UKLabour rise to the moment & offer us a vision worth backing

The rising inflation and the cost-of-living crisis have made it hard for Londoners to manage their expenses. Our food has been in high demand, with 700 organisations on our waiting list. Our CEO @LotteHill1 talks about the challenges ahead: bit.ly/3PzFqUk #foodpoverty

Leytonstone Community Fridge is a food redistribution project based in E11. We're currently looking for a few more local volunteer drivers/food collectors. Would you like to drive down food waste and help the hungry? transitionleytonstone.org.uk/community-frid…

Spot on, @GreenJennyJones

For a Govt which says it cares about cost of living crisis, it's remarkable that #QueensSpeech had absolutely nothing on a mass home insulation programme – the cheapest, fastest, most effective way to cut household bills, energy demand, climate emissions, and create 1000s of jobs

We have thrown away some many precious metals in discarded electronic gadgets that scientists are now saying we should be mining landfill sites. What a crazy throwaway society we have created bbc.in/3P78l2Q

No new coal. Understood????

And finally, it is being announced as definite on Thursday (also World Curlew Day!) - a GCSE purely on studying natural history in the UK and how it relates to the rest of the world. Field skills, ID, connection to nature. Some good news. Only took 11 years of campaigning!

Research shows that if you reduce traffic volumes you will reduce road casualties (& vice-versa) actionvisionzero.org/what-to-campai… This feature has a v useful summary of the impact of different measures in urban areas. Great for discussion in the local elections! theconversation.com/12-best-ways-t…

Don't know where to pick up your copy of the Echo? Plenty of copies at #LeaBridgeLibrary in the main section and the cafe too! #LeaBridge #E10 #localnews Here's a useful map showing where it is distributed across the borough: ow.ly/fift30kuFKA

Let's remember that not all oligarchs are Russian. Restoring democracy everywhere depends on constraining their power, regardless of their nationality. doubledown.news/watch/2020/27/…

45,000kg of beautiful potatoes. Would have been a real bonus for the #Community #Fridge network. Works out at 225kg each!

Internatioanl Energy Agency says changes to consumer behaviour would allow world to cut oil use by 2.7 million barrels per day in four months equivalent to more than half of Russia’s exports bit.ly/3D9cBt7

Scotland to propose ban on destruction of unsold goods in an aim to reduce waste. Proposal put forward as part of a new #circulareconomy bill bit.ly/3JfYQea

Well, we're certainly stuck in a tight corner now.

Unhooking ourselves from fossil gas and switching to an entirely low-carbon economy just became even more urgent.