This map shows the locations of air quality monitoring and action across London. View data related to where you live, work, study: Monitoring, Actions, Air Quality Data Modelling and London Boundaries.
Dalai Lama Compasssion
“We have to learn how to use our time properly. It’s important to make our lives meaningful. Bullying and cheating others may give a short-term return, but leaves a nagging sense of unease. Money doesn’t yield real satisfaction, whereas compassion does.”
Dalai Lama - Inner Values
“From kindergarten onwards we need education to strengthen inner values not just pursue material goals. We need to introduce emotional hygiene, much as we teach physical hygiene. This way we can address the problems we face, in the hope of making this a century of non-violence.”
How walking opens new horizons
“Walking provides just enough diversion to occupy the conscious mind, but sets our subconscious free to roam. Trivial thoughts mingle with important ones, memories sharpen, ideas and insights drift to the surface.
“It’s good to think when you walk, but it’s even better not to,” says Kagge, who prefers to switch his phone off, too. “That’s when you find answers to questions you didn’t even know you had.””
#saynotothemow
“Let your grass grow long! Long grass, peppered with flowers, is one of the rarest habitats in our gardens, yet it is incredibly beneficial for wildlife 🦋🐞🐝🌼🌱”
easy masterpiece
“Adding from the manufactured palette won’t reveal it.
Put fixative on the original, authentic - already fully composed.”
Reuse your glass jars
Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without loss in quality or purity. This is better than plastic where some are downcycled - meaning the more a type of plastic is recycled, a portion of it becomes unrecyclable. Retweet if you #reuse your glass jars!
Living with less plastic
Join Badger, Ratty, Mole and Toad as they begin their search for a wilder future
It’s not too late to bring our wildlife back
www.wildlifetrusts.org/wilder-future
It can’t be valid if I don’t “like” it or it doesn’t entertain me!
Many react negatively to a piece of art if they don't "like" it, as though it is invalid if it doesn’t provide some immediate and light entertainment or isn’t akin to the experience of shopping for a bland consumer item to match the wall paint! As the emotion of liking is typically overly expressed - and therefore not expressive - it demonstrates a worryingly limited lens through which many view what they come into contact with. And, frankly, a severe lack of exploratory spirit. Don’t give the mainstream a challenge, they can’t “like” it!
Here’s an interview about thinking and feeling far beyond “likeable”: capitalcultural.ro/en/interview-with-marina-de-bris-the-grotesque-beauty-of-art/
Make a wildlife pond
Refuse waste
Clean Up Britain infographic created with @DanTheScribbler
Balloons are the deadliest plastic to seabirds
Bee saver kit
Credit: Friends of the Earth
Mindful March
RSPB Red List for conservation efforts
The RSPB Red List prioritises action for species that need help immediately. Criteria include:
Species is globally threatened.
Historical population decline in UK during 1800–1995.
Severe (at least 50%) decline in UK breeding population over last 25 years, or longer-term period (the entire period used for assessments since the first BoCC review, starting in 1969).
Severe (at least 50%) contraction of UK breeding range over last 25 years, or the longer-term period.
"Prioritising is vital as we don’t have money and resources to work on everything, even within the red list we can’t prioritise action for all 67 species."
What can WE ALL do to help?
The first step is considering what to do in your own outdoor spaces to create better habitats for wildlife. Those who have a garden could consider wildlife friendly gardening - create a pond, plant pollen rich flowers, or plant shrubs with berries for birds.
How to create an insect-friendly garden
Cleaning without chemicals
e-cloths FOR cleanING with water, to reduce the major impact OF cleaning chemicals on the environment
e-cloth website says:
Paper towels and wipes go to landfill or are incinerated and have a major impact on the environment.
Impregnated disposable wipes are particularly harmful, due to their volume and the types of waste generated.
There is a significant environmental impact from the production and use of cleaning chemicals in the home, quite apart from the impact of the residues that go down the sink and eventually find their way into rivers and oceans.
A significant number of perfumed cleaning liquids, that claim to be natural, have traces of chemicals that many experts believe to be harmful to the environment.
e-cloths are made of man-made fibres and have an environmental impact, of course, but they neither use nor are impregnated with chemicals. The fact that they last for years and can be washed over 300 times, means the environmental impact is significantly lower than other cleaning products and processes.
www.e-cloth.com/pages/kind-to-the-environment
Leunig
Help reduce unnecessary waste
Aim for zero waste!
Find a plastic-free and bulk-buy food shop that only sells organic and seasonal produce - from as close to home as possible. Take your reusable containers with you!
Compost food waste or use a Council food waste bin, to help reduce harmful pesticide use.
Ask a community garden or allotment if they can use your brown papers for their compost.
Always seek alternatives. For example, loo roll doesn’t need to be wrapped in plastic! Find a bulk buy shop that sells loose rolls, or at the very least wrapped in brown paper.
Treat recycling as a last resort. If you must buy something in a recyclable bottle or container that you can’t reuse perhaps a local school or charity can use the empties for arts and crafts?
If you MUST buy something in packaging that can’t be reused or recycled, return the packet to the shop. If they take greater responsibility for disposal they might re-think the packaging.
Donate unwanted stuff to charity rather then sending it to landfill which comes at great cost!