Deborah Colvin
@deborahcolvin62
Earthling. Born 318ppm
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08-10-2010 16:31:58
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Tower Hamlets: - Only 37% of households own a car. - Life expectancy is 10 years lower than the national. average. - Childhood obesity is higher than the London average. The solution is active travel, not more traffic on residential roads Lutfur Rahman
Posters appear all over Bethnal Green in support of our public spaces, trees and pocket parks and against the re-introduction of rat runs. People want Bethnal Green kept safe and liveable for residents. #willofthepeople Lutfur Rahman
We can mitigate the impact of heavy rainfall in urban areas by planting trees, creating rain gardens and depaving. So maybe Tower Hamlets Council could explain why they want to remove these? #SuDS #Flooding
Jesus Green - Save Our Safer Streets Tower Hamlets Council Trees and plants absorb excess rainfall while providing shade and cooling during heatwaves. They are ideal mitigation for the extreme weather that we are seeing.
Local resident Shaheena expresses, in East London Advertiser, her concerns about the mayor's retrograde plans to increase traffic in Bethnal Green. If you live, work or study in Tower Hamlets, please sign our petition asking the mayor to listen to residents. i.heartbg.uk/petition
I just supported this case! crowdjustice.com/case/save-our-… via CrowdJustice
1/3 Have the new road layouts increased pollution on boundary roads? Data collected by Tower Hamlets Council (which we had to obtain via FoI) shows that pollution levels have FALLEN more on Hackney Road and Bethnal Green Rd ("boundary roads") than in the rest of Tower Hamlets.
In solidarity, no more fossil fuels, system change not climate change. We are nature healing itself, we are history making itself #ClimateJustice #LossAndDamage St James's Church, Piccadilly @CClimateAction Church of England Environment Programme
St James's Church, Piccadilly The Big One kicks off @stjohnswaterloo with capacity crowd for Lords select committee panel with @CClimateAction Green Christian
Join us for a four-part series of online conversations with indigenous thinkers and contemporary theologians who are passionate about Earth Justice. Earth Justice at St James's Piccadilly sjp.org.uk/earth-justice/…