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Welcome to Tottenham & Wood Green FoE

Local scoundrels campaigning in Wood Green

If you'd like to help in our local campaigns, why not come along to one of our meetings? They are usually held from 7.30pm at the Phoenix Millennium Centre, 386 West Green Rd, entrance through first gate in Vincent Rd. Ring the bell if door is shut. Climb the stairs - we are usually in room opposite top of stairs. We usually meet for about an hour and a half to report on recent events and plan our next activities and then we go for a drink in the nearby Goat pub. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 25 November at the Phoenix Millennium Centre as above.

Latest news:

Biofuels Campaign. A large orang utan launched our biofuels campaign at the Haringey Green Fair on 6-7 June, highlighting the links between growing palm oil and rainforest destruction. The campaign aims to stop to European Union Directive requiring 10% of petrol and diesel to be biofuel by 2010 - a target which will drive more forest loss and divert more farmland from food-growing to filling car fuel tanks. The land needed to fill a 4x4 fuel tank just once could feed a person for a year.

We followed this up with stalls at the Tottenham Festival and Rise Festival, we now have nearly 600 cards signed to Euro-MP Sarah Ludford, who we are going to lobby on 29 August.

Next campaign stalls at Lordship Rec festival Saturday 13 September, and Haringey Car-Free day in Wood Green High Road on Sunday 28th September.

Heathrow. We supported the "Make a noise" anti-Heathrow expansion carnival on 31 May. With airlines in a crisis over rising fuel prices, who needs a third runway anyway?

Climate action: We have now seen the government accept the need for 80% cuts in CO2 emissions in principle, but they have not yet put them in the Climate Change Bill which is now nearing the end of its passage through parliament. The government has also adopted something close to the annual targets we argued for. The big weakness in the Bill now is the continuing exclusion of emissions from international aviation and shipping. We took part in FoE's national day of action on aviation emissions on Saturday 5 April. The Haringey Advertiser came to take pictures. We also collected signatures on the aviation emissions issue at our stall at the Haringey Independence day event on 26 April.

Local climate campaigner Janet Boorman said
"The third runway will bring more aircraft over Haringey. It will be responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than the whole of Uganda, with over 25 million people. It's obscene to be doing this when we desperately need to cut emissions to prevent climate catastrophe. Haringey says it is the greenest borough, so it should at least join up - it costs local taxpayers nothing to do so"

We organised a showing of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth at the Wightman Road mosque N8 on 25 November, jointly with the London Islamic Cultuiral Society and the London Islamic Network on the Environment. We have also addressed meetings of jewish and catholic organisations about climate change in recent months.

News on major developments: We have commented on major plans for Wards Corner and Lawrence Road, both in the Seven Sisters area, calling for carbon-neutral developments with lower amounts of parking. There is a community campaign on Wards Corner trying to save some of the historic buildings on site, which we are in contact with. This campaign had 350 local people to a public meeting on 28 February.

The Hale Village proposal for the GLS site at Tottenham Hale, with 1210 flats, 700 student rooms, 800 parking spaces, a hotel, school, shops and health centre got outline planning permission in May 2007. The site has now been demolished and building has started.

Plans for Haringey Heartlands could also come in soon - we will be on the case from a sustainability perspective.

Sustainable Haringey: This is a new network to coordinate and stimulate work on sustainability issues across the borough, with working groups on tranmsport, food, what you can do to make your own home more sustainable, and on involving black and minority ethnic communities. The challenge is now to build this so it can raise awareness and create new projects in Haringey. See www.sustainableharingey.org.uk or contact Quentin on 8801 9490 if you are interested.