Big Smoke spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, on a fantastic little community garden project in Camden. It’s great that Camden Council was open minded enough to help support this initiative involving members of the community finding new ways to both fight austerity and make the […]
We’ve spotted lots of interesting links over the last week which we’ve not yet had the chance to highlight, so let’s make a start in catching-up; London buses one at a time is a great blog by a group of “ladies who bus”. Twitter “bullying” is bestial, but there are […]
Are you looking for smart colleagues, meaningful projects, and fresh technology challenges? mySociety is a community of coders and technology fiends using our talents to make the world a better place. We do this by building useful, high impact, democratic open source web apps likeFixMyStreet.com, WhatDoTheyKnow.com and TheyWorkForYou.com, and running projects, such as Alaveteli.org, […]
The London Array is a massive wind energy project based in the Thames Estuary that should provide a significant amount of London’s energy. They have produced a progress report on the ambitious initiative that involves 175 large turbines providing renewable energy for the capital. The project should be online by […]
Come for free croissants and to meet with cyclists and get help from Dr Bike at this popular event now in its 15th year. Also bike marking from the Metropolitan Police Safer Transport Team (Camden). Cycle information from Camden Council Smarter Travel Team. Ossulston Street by junction with Brill […]
There’s something about this that really tickles me. Enjoy.
Detroit, at the National Theatre, is something quite unexpected. Appearing at first to simply be a play about new neighbours in an American suburb the layers of the onion gradually unfold transforming a witty, well performed play into something far stronger. As the backyard barbecues go on Ben and Mary […]
Sometimes you get the impression that some estates are all stick and no carrot. This is actually the one green space in the immediate, and it is of course behind bars, unused and it is forbidden to play on it. Why don’t they build a glue factory on it and […]
An opening has arisen for a Stagiaire in the Brussels office of Jean Lambert, Green MEP for London, starting at the beginning of September 2012 for a period of 6 months. The position provides an excellent opportunity to gain an insight into the everyday workings of the European Parliament, to […]
There seems to be a few of these around London. Really lovingly graffiti-ed vans gracing our roads, or often just our car parks. Long may it continue.
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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