We are very excited about Sally Duffell joining us on April 12th at 645 to tell us about how we can have a natural menopause without nasty symptoms or pharmaceutical drugs. Sally has done extensive research into how growing and eating sprouted foods is a really simple and very cost effective way to ease symptoms […]
Come along to the Hogsmill Community Garden on Saturday 17th March for a seed-swap between 12 and 4 p.m. Create your own haven for bees, butterflies and insects by growing plants for pollinators. Celebrate the start of Spring! Home-made soup provided! Bring along seeds to swap or choose from ours!
A few years ago it was all the rage to work out your carbon footprint and show how many planets it would take to support you in your Western lifestyle. Now there are industries who have to pay carbon taxes and therefore are putting a price on carbon. I believe the carbon tax was set […]
Kingston Environment Centre is under threat of closure as the council has not confirmed it will extend our lease, which runs out on April 18th. The council has told us it wants to receive a higher income from the premises we occupy in New Malden. As we survive on only a small amount of money […]
Yesterday we interviewed John Trend on Kingston Green Radio. He is starting a new youth-orientated charity shop here on the High Street , with the Charity “Oxygen”. It turned out he was a youth worker in this very building a few years back, which prompted us to look at some old photos which are still […]
I had a good conversation with Brian Mulley today. He thinks the Environment Centre should be assigning seed varieties for development by various community gardens. I like the ambition. I prefer to think that this year the community gardens around here will decide what to grow for themselves, see what they liked and was successful […]
Look out for a new youth project starting soon in New Malden. The Oxygen project is supporting young people running after schools projects and schools knife crime awareness, working with marginalised and disadvantaged youth. Their new shop is on 117 New Malden High Street and will include upcycling of furniture and clothing, and new business […]
Permaculture foundation weekend course, May 12-13, at Kingston Environment Centre: using a vibrant combination of theory and practice, our foundation course will introduce you to observation techniques; natural systems and patterns; ethics and principles of permaculture; permaculture design tools. The course is informative and interactive. You will leave having designed a permaculture space, putting into practice everything you […]
The 14th February was a special day at KEC. Love Kingston visited KEC and the main guest was the Mayor of Kingston, Julie Pickering. Also at the event were Garry and Sue, shown in photo, from the new Friends group setting up in Beverley Park, New Malden. Love Kingston were on the KGR talking about […]
Listen to the Fair Fayre event at KEC on mixcloud. In December 2017 a group of Traders came together at the Kingston Environment Centre to create the first Fair Fayre, A Craft and Fair Trade Fayre with the environment in mind. All the best goods from eco friendly beauty products to upcycled light bulbs were […]