ken livingstone
Posted by petespeller — 26 April 2012 at 4:10pm
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"Boris bikes" were an initiative of Ken Livingstone implemented by Boris Johnson
People look to world cities like London to provide political leadership on national and international problems like ending our oil and gas addiction. With exactly a week to go before the May 3rd London elections, we’ve teamed up with Friends of the Earth to look at how the main four candidates shape up.
Posted by jamie — 29 February 2008 at 2:36pm
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Fashion is a fickle beast but now a whole city
is going retro (well, not quite but it was too good a pun to waste). The
long-awaited plan to retrofit all buildings owned and operated by the Greater
London Authority (GLA) with energy-saving systems and technology is finally in
motion with contracts awarded to companies which are going to slash the capital's emissions.
While much of the discussion about energy
efficiency in buildings has focused on new houses, there are still millions of
older buildings that lack proper insulation or top-notch heating systems. No
matter how good those eco-towns are, if and when they're built they'll only
represent a small proportion of the building stock in the UK.
Fortunately, the GLA have a cunning plan.
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Reacting to news of a major initiative to "retrofit" London's public buildings -
including police and fire stations - to cut energy waste, Greenpeace Chief
Scientist Dr Doug Parr said:
"London is setting the pace, and if we're
going to beat climate change then we need to see this level of ambition in
cities across the world. Slashing energy waste and decentralising power across
the capital will save Londoners money and cut emissions, but just as importantly
it will mean our city is seen as an environmental trailblazer.
Posted by jamie — 22 February 2008 at 5:11pm
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London mayor Ken
Livingstone was never going to get an easy ride over his planned changes to the
congestion charge, and Porsche's threat of a legal challenge is perhaps no big
surprise. Famed for its fast, sleek, inefficient cars, it claims the new
£25-a-day charge on gas guzzlers is "unfair and disproportionate".
As well as the promised judicial review, the
company has started a petition for the Jeremy
Clarksons of this world to voice their opposition to Ken's plan. "We know that huge numbers of people in London and across the
rest of the country support our case," they claim. "They agree with
us that it would be bad for London - that it is
unfair and sends the wrong message about what sort of a city London is whilst having no meaningful benefit
on the environment."
Posted by jossc — 18 February 2008 at 1:27pm
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With just over a week to go until the consultation process ends, London mayor Ken Livingstone is keeping up the pressure on the government to abandon plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport. During a visit to Sipson, one of three villages threatened by the bulldozers if the plans go ahead, Ken said: "It is vital that all airport expansion in London and the South East, including Heathrow, is halted now as it is completely contrary to the growing evidence on the role of aviation in contributing towards catastrophic climate change.
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Responding
to Ken Livingstone's announcement today that gas-guzzling vehicles will have to
pay £25 a day to enter London's congestion charge zone, Greenpeace
Chief Scientist Dr Doug Parr
said:
"Gas
guzzlers have no place in a modern city like London, so it's great news that the congestion
charge will give people a big incentive to pollute
less.
Posted by jossc — 16 January 2008 at 4:44pm
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All four leading candidates for the forthcoming London mayoral election have joined forces
to fight Gordon Brown's push for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Ken Livingstone,
Boris Johnson, Brian Paddick and Sian Berry
have all agreed to feature in a new anti-expansion advertising campaign
launched today. The ad features in the Times, Guardian, Independent and Evening Standard newspapers.
Posted by jamie — 9 January 2008 at 12:36pm
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As Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone might not be the perfect politician but at least he's streets ahead of central government on climate change and reducing emissions in the capital. His latest ploy is to hold a light bulb amnesty during which Londoners can exchange their old incandescent bulbs for a bright new energy-efficient one.
According to london.gov.uk, you can take up to two old-fashioned bulbs to any London branch of B&Q between Friday 11 and Sunday 13 January and exchange them for compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) provided by British Gas. Nice.
Posted by jamie — 11 June 2007 at 5:26pm
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In the news today are reports of the first zero-carbon home being unveiled in London. Housing minister Yvette Cooper has been touring the site, nodding in a ministerial way at the insulation, solar panels, water recycling and construction methods that went into the first home to meet the top standards of the government's sustainable housing code.
According to the report on this morning's Today programme (you can listen again for the next seven days), the ultra-efficient abode cost 40 per cent more to build than a 'normal' house but as more are built, the economies of scale will bring that down. As the government intends to make all new housing zero-carbon by 2016, that price fall should start in the near future, although Cooper was evasive when quizzed about exactly how many of the 160,000 homes planned in the Thames Gateway region would be zero-carbon. A rolling increase in standards was all she would commit to.
Posted by bex — 6 March 2007 at 10:23pm
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