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With just a few weeks to the London mayoral election the candidates face an unlikely challenge: having to include cycling on their manifesto. Groups such as Londoners on Bikes are lobbying all the candidates, analysing their policies, and announcing their voting recommendation in an election that seems set to be different.
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| If you are reading this then you are part of an increasing number of people buying soya products. Chances are that you could be a vegetarian that either for health or environmental reasons is considering soya as an alternative source of protein to meat. At New Environmentalist we want to encourage people to lower their carbon footprint and eat less meat, but is soya a viable alternative? We thought it would be interesting to see where the mainstream supermarkets got the Soya for their own brand vegetarian products, and we have also asked two producers that specialise in Soya and vegetarian products. The two questions that we asked were: 1. Where is the Soya grown? And 2. Is it non-genetically modified? Read full article HERE ! |
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A cycling revolution is happening in the UK and it couldn’t happen any sooner! Only in the last week two major campaigns have been launched and New Environmentalist is proud to support both the Cities Fit for Cycling Campaign national campaign run by The Times newspaper and the Love London, Go Dutch Campaign initiated by LCC (London Cycling Campaign).
Please pledge your support directly on the campaign websites and if possible, contact your local MP to voice your concerns on cycling in your area. While these campaigns are important at both national and regional levels, we believe that the changes required need to happen at a local level first. That is why, at New Environmentalist we have been running our own local cycling campaigns since 2010, in an effort to raise more awareness of cycling as an alternative and healthier local means of transport in urban environments. Read more here.
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Our volunteers that cycle in Brent have complained to us that our council has fallen behind other London councils for safe cycling. We believe that the main culprit is the out-dated transport infrastructure: all the main roads linking Brent to Central London are narrow and over-crowded. Trying to cycle around Wembley, Brent Park, Wembley Park, Harlesden, Dollis Hill, Willesden, Kilburn High Road or Harrow Road feels like playing Russian roulette with one’s life. There are almost no secondary roads for cyclists to use due to an unfortunate legacy of railways, waterways and poorly designed motorways. Additionally, a lack of serious investment in cycling has resulted in only a small number of cycle lanes and few cycling facilities.
Please find here the full text of our email to our MP for Brent: Sarah Teather, in the hope that we will be represented in the Parliament debate on cycling, on Thursday, 23 rd February 2012. |
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Beyond Durban or saving tomorrow, tomorrow
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) from Durban 2011 ended with a common decision to adopt a legally binding agreement on climate change no later than 2015, to be fully implemented by 2020. However, just a day later Canada has pull out with Russia supporting their decision.Read more here. |
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New Environmentalist is pleased to announce that Agent Green, one of our partners in Transylvania completed in September 2011 a new local project to increase the ecotourism potential of the Retezat National Park. The project consisted of marking, increased accessibility and planning a viewing point for the Lolaia waterfall. The waterfall is a spectacular natural attraction located at 1050 meters altitude in the north of the park and is accessible to visitors all year round by a passage called Carnic. Read our full article here… |
New Environmentalist is proud to announce a new partnership with Apuseni Mountain Club. Apuseni Mountain Club (or Club Montan Apuseni) is an association operating in Transylvania whose purpose is to protect endangered species and to promote responsible tourism. The association aims to achieve their goals by implementing sustainable development programs in partnership with local communities and by educating the younger generations in nature conservation. Partner’s link.
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The New Environmentalist “Sprint” team was proud to take part in this year’s London Duathlon, in the Challenge Relay category. The London event is the world’s largest duathlon held annually in Richmond Park, south-west London, with thousands of participants. Ion started the Relay with a challenging 10km run, Ciprian then took over with two fast laps around Richmond Park (22km in the rain) and Siobhan crossed the finishing line with a fast 5km run and a blistering sprint to the line. The result was a well deserved 7th place (out of more than 80 teams competing), with an overall time of 1 hour and 52 min. Click here for more pictures. |
Alter Natives Eco Farm
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Siobhan and a few of our volunteers travelled to Almeria for a week at an Eco Farm: the Alter Natives, a family run venture that uses sustainable technologies to grow organic vegetables in a part of Spain that is more famous for its semi-arid desert and western movies than the unexpected fruit and vegetables.
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Lauren Tucker is our youngest volunteer Media Advisor at only 17 years old but her passion for wildlife, photography and local conservation issues has really impressed us and we are looking forward Lauren’s future work. This article focuses on the conservation issues around the village of Newton St Loe.
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