Large survey involving two million adults found links between road and rail traffic and Alzheimer’s in particular
Andrew Gregory
Exposure to noise from road traffic and railways is associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to the largest study of its kind.
Research has consistently linked transport noise to health conditions including heart disease, diabetes and obesity, but studies on transport noise and dementia were scarce and small, and findings inconsistent.
Now an “impressive” study involving two million adults, conducted over more than a decade, has concluded that people living in areas with transport noise face a higher risk of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease. The findings were published in the BMJ.
South London school bans knives, guns, drugs and … bicycles | road.cc
Councillor seeking urgent meeting with principal says “We cannot have bicycles on the same prohibited list as knives, porn and ketamine”
A Wandsworth councillor has requested an urgent meeting with the principal of a school in the south London borough after it emerged that pupils are banned from cycling there, with bicycles featuring on a list of prohibited items that includes drugs, knives and pornographic material.
Low Traffic Islington
We are #lowtrafficislington. We want safer, quieter and healthier streets for all.
Local groups have sprung up all over Islington to campaign for safer, quieter streets, cleaner air and to support the Council’s drive to create Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) aka People Friendly Streets in Islington-speak. We currently have nine sub-groups with active websites, and thousands of members, Twitter and NextDoor supporters. Our sub-groups actively collaborate with numerous other community groups, and we hold events to celebrate the liberation of our local streets from through traffic. Our members and supporters have grown so much that we decided it was time to come together under one name – say hello to Low Traffic Islington!
Show your love for Low Traffic Islington with our Green Heart poster. Let the Council know you are one of the thousands of Islington residents who want safer, quieter and healthier streets for all.
Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined – The Washington Post
Robyn Dixon August 11, 2021
On one level, the Siberian fires are part of an annual cycle. But many climate experts see the staggering scope of this year’s fires as another sign of greater fire risks on a warming planet that is potentially being made even hotter by huge carbon emissions from the blazes.
Siberia’s fires are pumping huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere
Russia is fighting more than 190 forest fires in Siberia that have closed airports and roads, forced widespread evacuations and sent a pall of smoke across the North Pole. But it has abandoned dozens more fires covering thousands of square miles, with no effort to fight them.
As Russia faces one of its worst fire seasons, environmentalists say there is little urgency about an event that officials play down every year.
Climate Perks: The new sustainability trend that encourages employees to embrace slow travel | The Independent
:excerptstartThe work perks scheme rewards staff who travel in a slower, greener way with more time off, writes Lucy Thackray Friday 20 August 2021Sustainable travelFlying often seems like the quickest and most logical way to travel – but what if we had more time?That’s the question posed by British eco-charity Possible, whose Climate Perks initiative aims to… [Read More]
Cargo bike sharing to launch in Stoke Newington, London Fields and Shoreditch – Hackney.Gov
Our residents and businesses are passionate about doing all they can to help improve air quality – and we’re launching this scheme to provide easy-to-access e-cargo bikes for shopping and carrying goods.
Cargo Bike Share is a nationwide first, and is one of the many ways we’re working to rebuild a greener Hackney in the aftermath of the pandemic – with cleaner air, healthier lives and better neighbourhoods for all of our residents and businesses.”
Cllr Rowena Champion, Islington Council’s Executive Member for Environment and Transport, said: “We know that by taking steps to help residents and businesses lower their emissions, we can create a greener Islington and achieve net zero carbon status by 2030, to help tackle the climate emergency.
Activist – the problem — Badvertising
Where do we see advertising?
We are so surrounded by advertising that it can become oddly invisible. As a result advertisers shout louder and louder for our attention, using ever more clever techniques and digital media. Advertising is the cultural water in which we swim. It shapes our choices and wants, our priorities and what we consider to be ‘normal’ and part of the good life. More worryingly, research shows that we soak-up the messages and manipulations of marketing whether we are consciously aware of them or not.
Global warming will happen faster than we think – Nature
Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.
09 SEP 21
Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.
Prepare for the “new abnormal”. That was what California Governor Jerry Brown told reporters last month, commenting on the deadly wildfires that have plagued the state this year. He’s right. California’s latest crisis builds on years of record-breaking droughts and heatwaves. The rest of the world, too, has had more than its fair share of extreme weather in 2018. The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change announced last week that 157 million more people were exposed to heatwave events in 2017, compared with 2000.
Such environmental disasters will only intensify. Governments, rightly, want to know what to do. Yet the climate-science community is struggling to offer useful answers.
Scrap The A4174 Ring Road Rejig! – Action Network
South Gloucestershire Council want to spend £30 million of taxpayers money ripping up roundabouts along the ring road, introducing “throughabouts” or “hamburger roundabouts.”
It’s clear from the plans that:
• There will be years of disruption..three years of delays, road works, noise and construction traffic• Buses, cyclists and pedestrians are neglected
The plans do not provide adequate provision for either pedestrians or cyclists and make no commitment to improving bus frequency and reliability.
• The plans do nothing to address the climate emergency
Judge dismisses case against Hackney’s LTN plans – Highways Magazine
Hackney LBC has successfully defended a judicial review claim over its low traffic neighbourhood plans.
The claimant in HHRC Ltd v Hackney Borough Council brought an application for judicial review specifically regarding Hackney’s cabinet decision on 29th September 2020 to adopt an emergency transport plan entitled Rebuilding a Green Hackney – Emergency Transport Plan: responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on the transport network (“the ETP”).
‘In particular the claimant is concerned about the proposals within the ETP to introduce Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (“LTNs”),’ the judgement highlighted.
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