A Vicious Circle: Climate Change and Pesticide Use
This paper was presented at Wanstead Climate Action meeting, 1st August 2023 by Pesticide Free Redbridge pesticidefreeredbridge@btinternet.com Pesticide use increases climate change Climate change increases pesticide use Climate change makes pesticide use even more toxic There is an alternative: Eliminating pesticide use will enhance green spaces in our cities and increase climate resilience ‘Thriving green…
Stop the Sunak government’s oil madness!
Hello! You may have seen the Wanstead Climate Action leaflet. The blog below is a personal view expanding on why experts agree that issuing new North Sea licences is absolutely the wrong thing to do for people and for nature, why nevertheless politicians are pursuing it, and possibilities of how to stop it. While you’re…
Rapidly Closing Windows of Opportunity: the IPCC report
It’s entirely by chance that Wanstead Climate Action is holding a public meeting about the climate crisis on the day that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the final report in its Sixth Assessment Cycle. We could almost guess the broad conclusions though: Are things bad and getting worse? Yes. Are governments doing anything…
Wanstead trees need water!
Marian Temple of Wanstead Community Gardeners emailed this appeal on 16 July 2022, shortly before the record heatwave struck Wanstead: TREE WATERING. This is really needed. Newly planted trees are very vulnerable in their first couple of years but I can see a tree in my street that’s been there for a good 6 years…
COP26 “Nothing to Lose”
“For the activist, the legal ramifications of their actions are no longer proportional to the dire consequences of failure. Such is the importance of decarbonization.” The reasons why climate activists become active get lost. Wanstead Climate Action’s reasons to travel to Glasgow and protest at COP26 are multiple and self-evident. While the last 18 months…
COP26 or COP-OUT
At midday Kathy is at the JP Morgan building, the rest of the Wanstead Activists have joined up with the crowd of protesters marching up Waterloo St and she watches as they come towards her. The fanfare is preceded by heart-beating drums and the shrill call of the lead drummer’s whistle. The ever present hi-viz-wearing…
Rebels on the Road to COP26
We follow members of our local environmental group who have made the journey from London to Glasgow, to find out why this action is so important to them.
en route to Glasgow, via COPmania
We all know it’s important, but remain mired in daily trivia. Today, 1 Nov, Wanstead Village Directory hits its stands with news that eight of us are joining the throngs at COP26 to ‘add pressure’ on world leaders for a rapid and fair transition to a fossil free future. Can we really have any effect…
WCA calls for 6,000 new green jobs in Redbridge and Waltham Forest
Over 6,100 jobs could be created in Waltham Forest and Redbridge across green infrastructure and care work in the next two years. Working with the Green New Deal UK campaign, we are calling for all local MPs to support sufficient government investment in energy efficiency, renewables, R&D and care work. 1.2m green jobs could be…
This Could Be A…Breath Of Fresh Air
Have you ever walked down the road and seen something you wanted to improve? Our latest campaign, ‘This could be a…breath of fresh air’, aims to do just that. Our posters, which you might have started to spot around Wanstead, are designed to improve, add or adapt features in the local areas in an effort…
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