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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is the environmental benefit of the community events we hold here? Getting together and making new friends from our own neighbourhood helps with community cohesion and lifts our spirits. Appreciating the different cutures that thrive in our communities builds happier more vibrant and safer neighbourhoods. At a time when […]
A piece of potential good news by the BBC this morning. Norway has a bottle recycling system that recycles 97% of its plastic bottles. This could be adopted in the UK, and Scotland has already commited in principle to adopting such a scheme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42953038 For local information about plastics and […]
Untidiness could help save the planet Are we being too neat?I don’t know where the passion for neatness in the environment came from. Maybe it’s an inherent need to impose order upon the chaos outside in what was once a very wild and unpredictable world. Whatever the reason it has […]
Have you ever bemoaned the state of a patch of grass, be it your neighbour’s messy front lawn (admittedly front lawns are becoming a rare commodity too), a patch of rank grass in the park or an unkempt sidewalk? Then you’ll know that most people prefer to see a well-manicured […]