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HCA News56 3 NOT TO BE MISSED! Return of the Kalahari HIGHBURY Bushmen COMMUNITY NEWS www.highburycommunity.org No 56 May 2008 Supper Talk: 20 Highbury Park N5 2AB Saturday 7thJune, 6-9.30 pm, £16 including meal Tel: 7354 5029 Fax: 7354 5034 Smug as we might feel here in central Barrister Gordon Bennett and Kali Mercier, for Survival London, usually only a short walk International, spent many months in Botswana successfully The Transition buzz from neighbours, shops, public fighting the legal case of the Kalahari Bushmen to get back their transport and even jobs, where the US goes the UK follows. The first homelands after eviction by the Botswana government.With their By Nicola Baird first-hand experience of both the Botswana legal system and the has started half of the film is bleak.Towards the way of life of the Bushmen, their superb photos and fascinating end it cheers up, offering a vision of stories promise to make this a most interesting evening. how Americans could change in a bid Great Affordable Presents COULD WE SEE Highbury take solar panels to sun tubes, was perfect to cope with the twin problems of There’ll be the usual wonderful buffet supper and live music. Fabulous Furniture the first steps along the Transition inspiration. Indeed the building has rising fuel prices (caused by peak oil) A great local event to bring friends to. 5% off for Highbury Community Newsletter Readers Town path? become the first carbon neutral (Bring copy of advert please). and climate change. Redesigning the property in Islington thanks to the city so we work near where we live, Highbury Roundhouse, 71 Ronalds Road, N5 1XB Have you seen that film everyone’s recent installation of a wood pellet (just off Highbury Fields) talking about because it turns growing more of our own food and (biomass) boiler to cover its minimal developing self-sufficiency skills Gathering Moss Interiors strangers into neighbourhood heating needs. For those of us Tickets: 020 7359 5916 193 Blackstock Road, Highbury, London N5 2LL champions? Even with its puzzlingly (rather than just buying new stuff) [email protected] 020 7354 3034 Mob. 07762 641847 shivering through the winter in are presented as enviable ways to Open Weekends Only pessimistic name, The End of Highbury’s typical draughty Victorian Evenings: 020 7226 7240 www.gatheringmoss.co.uk live, which also make Suburbia, it has wowed communities terraces (or baulking at rising heating Fundraising for the Roundhouse and the Bushmen. throughout the world. When it was neighbourhoods livelier and bills), the Centre’s insulation is an friendlier places. shown to a group in Kinsale, Eire eye-opener. You can see for yourself they produced an Energy Descent if you visit on the afternoons it is As we watch the battle for the Plan designed to take communities open (Tuesday and Thursday). Democrats’ presidential candidate it What’s the speed limit from oil dependency to local is chilling how little Hillary outside Arsenal tube station? Drug & Health Food Store resilience. And it has inspired Clinton and Barack Obama 17 Highbury Park, N5 1QJ. Tel 020 7359 3623 the birth of the fast growing mention the need to tackle Transition Town movement. climate change. The Here we are travelling along Drayton Park… Organic & Non-Organic • Food Baby Products According to www. Republicans’ candidate, John Toiletries • Household Products transitiontowns.org, a McCain, doesn’t believe in it Aromatherapy • Homeopathy ‘transition town initiative is a at all. However the US is a Herbal Remedies • Eco Friendly Products community working together huge producer of the to look peak oil and climate greenhouse gases, such as Get your fabulous jewellery, handmade change in the eye and address carbon dioxide and methane, this big question: “for all those that are causing our climate chocolates, and helium balloons at aspects of life that this to change. community needs in order to Over the next few months a sustain itself and thrive, how do To Be Established AND S O COMBINED new law, first suggested by we significantly increase resilience HCA, FOG I F E cards • gifts • wrapping paper THE END OF SUBURBIA SCREENING Friends of the Earth, is due to be (to mitigate the effects of peak oil) passed by Parliament which will help 1c Highbury Park N5 1QJ and drastically reduce carbon the UK take the lead in cutting its emissions (to mitigate the effects of The End of Suburbia charts the US’s carbon dioxide emissions. The 020 7354 1223 climate change)?”’ The answers reliance on super cheap fossil fuels to current Climate Change Bill provide a range of co-ordinated run their cars and heat their homes. In (supported by both of Islington’s So it’s 20mph here as well. projects, crossing all areas of life, particular it shows how supplies of MPs) will make it a legal obligation that ‘leads to a collectively designed for Parliament to reduce these So the speed limit outside Arsenal tube station depends on from Highbury Community Association energy descent pathway’. natural gas – a key fuel used to where you have come and in what direction you are travelling – provide Americans with heating and emissions whoever is based in The HCA represents 780 residents and businesses on all The first public Islington screening of air conditioning – have peaked (a Number 10.This looks set to ensure clearly that can’t be right. The original plans Islington Council aspects of living and working in Highbury, Lower Holloway showed us for the Gillespie 20mph zone were straightforward, The End of Suburbia attracted more phenomenon known as peak oil). It policies that help individuals try to and Finsbury Park. Run by volunteers, it relies on donations. reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and not like this at all. Have the Council Officers in charge of the Send cheques to HCA Treasurer, c/o 83 Highbury Hill, than 50 people, mostly Highbury also details just how unprepared most scheme checked what their contractors have actually done? We N5 1SX, made out to ‘Highbury Community Association’. residents, and was organised jointly Americans are for dealing with the they are producing. It will mean big will be asking the Council what is going on here. In the by Highbury Community major changes this will have on their changes for us all if we are to make meantime, if you know anyone who has been booked for Send letters or articles for next issue to Association, Friends of Gillespie Park lives. Commuting long drives to an 80 per cent reduction in our [email protected] or HCA News, 85 Highbury and Islington Friends of the Earth. It work, owning two or more gas carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. speeding along these roads, advise them to appeal.We will also Hill, N5 1SX.Visit www.highburycommunity.org be asking the Council why the lower part of Highbury Hill is a was shown at Islington Ecology guzzling vehicles and driving to out- Feedback on The End of Suburbia was 30 mph zone surrounded on all sides by a 20 mph zone! © HCA 2008. Printed & published by HCA, 83 Highbury Hill, N5 1SX Centre which, boasting every of-town superstores are 20th-century possible eco feature ranging from habits that just can’t last. (continued on page 2) 6 1 (continued from page 1) Find out more… Arsenal’s Cracks CALIGARI CABINETS very positive. A group from Highgate Climate Action • Transition Towns by Rob Hopkins (Green Books, By Roger Wright Network joined us for their first Transition Town outing – £12.95; available at www.foe.co.uk/shop). Could Bespoke fitted furniture someone reading this order it for the library? they had begun work towards making Highgate a NOT THE CRACKS in Arsenal’s defence, of course, but the Tailored to your taste and interior Transition Town just a few days before. There were also • www.transitiontowns.org. • Islington Ecology Centre – information from ones in people’s houses that have appeared since the members of Islington’s only Carbon Reduction Action redevelopment started. www.caligaricabinets.co.uk Group (CRAG), hoping to find new recruits to inspire www.islington.gov.uk. each other to slash their carbon footprints. As an average • CRAG contact:Stephen Taylor When the redevelopment started back in 2006, all the 07976 417 227 person emits a wasteful 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide each ([email protected]; 0207 263 7373) or see properties backing on to Highbury Stadium, as well as some in year, group spokesman, John Ackers, reckons it is easy to www.carbonrationing.org.uk/islington surrounding streets, were surveyed by Highbury Holdings (the • Islington Climate Change Fund offers advice on and slash this figure by driving less (bikes and the car club work developers). Each property owner was provided with a copy of 30 Highbury Park well), avoiding planes and insulating your home. Insulation grants for installing renewable energy technologies the survey. Since then, there has been all the demolition, turned out to be the hottest topic at the post-film chat at such as solar panels, wind turbines and biomass excavation and redevelopment of Highbury Stadium. In London N5 2AA boilers: www.islington.gov.uk/Environment/ particular, there were a great many lorry trips involved, over a the Auld Triangle pub on St Thomas’ Road, with many Tel/Fax 7359 7440 people swapping information about Islington’s Climate climate_change/fund.asp or call 0800 953 1221. number of speed humps, some of which were finally removed by • How can I stop climate change? (Collins, £14.99; Islington Council after the ‘big dig’ was finished.You can still see Change Fund and progress on their plans to harness the www.lafromagerie.co.uk renewable energy provided by the sun.
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