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We're turning off the lights at the Woolwich Town Hall in solidarity with Ukraine.Royal Greenwich’s Woolwich Town Hall will join London’s famous Wembley Stadium arch, the Colosseum in Rome, and the Sydney Opera House, in answering the call to turn the lights out tonight at 8pm (local time) in solidarity with Ukraine, 10 months after the Russian war began.| www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
About 30 protesters brought a Greenwich Council meeting to a halt last night after criticising the council for not calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Police led the demonstrators out after they started yelling from the public gallery. The council chamber was cleared by security guards and the meeting was suspended. Some of the protesters […]| The Greenwich Wire
It feels like countryside, but we are in London and only nine miles from Trafalgar Square.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
Plastic pollution is out of control and environmental groups have been pushing to secure a global agreement to tackle it. Fossil fuel lobbyists again blocked a full treaty that would cut plastic production. But the fight for a strong treaty and just transition to a reuse-based future goes on.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
The facility has been burning household waste since 1993, and much of that waste is plastics. But concerns about the chemicals in plastics, and the dangers of air pollution, have grown. Wales offers a vision of a different way to manage waste, with some councils recycling over 70% of waste.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
