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Pupils' garden design shortlisted for award

Shorlisted: Hamptin Hill Junior School pupils with their garden designs

5:10pm Friday 30th July 2010

The wild ways of a group of pupils has put their school in with the chance of winning a £10,000 garden.

Parks given Green Flag award

Celebration: From left to right - Councillor Virginia Morris, Clare Phelps, Margaret Austin, Alan Austin, Councillor Clare Head, Margaret Prain and Pat Simpson

9:00am Thursday 29th July 2010

Nine parks and open spaces in Richmond are among the best in Britain - it’s official.

London Wetlands Centre goes hi - tech

New Toy: BBC presenter Miranda Krestovnikoff shows children how to use the underwater camera

2:30pm Wednesday 21st July 2010

Underwater cameras and virtual pools are both part of a novel new project unveiled at WWT London Wetland Centre this week.

Peddling the way to greener travel

To Hire: Bikes can now be hired from Richmond station thanks to new green initiative

11:05am Wednesday 21st July 2010

A pioneering new bike and ride initiative has been introduced to encourage travellers to make their journeys greener.

Join the capital growth plots plan

Rosie Boycott, picture by Charles Glover

12:16pm Thursday 8th July 2010

Chair of the London Food Board, Rosie Boycott, on the Capital Growth Plots competition...

Flower show to be 'greener than ever'

1:00pm Friday 2nd July 2010

The UK’s biggest gardening show will be greener than ever as the message of sustainability takes root.

Schools put eco issues top of the agenda

Green thinking: Pupils from primary schools across Richmond gather for a mass eco conference

9:41am Monday 21st June 2010

Green was certainly the theme when pupils from 30 schools came together to suggest ways they could tackle climate change.

Setting sail to save bluefin tuna

All aboard: Mark Sanders-Barwick, from Teddington, has joined 41 campaigners in the Mediterranean to help conservation society Sea Shepherd

3:38pm Friday 11th June 2010

An eco-warrior has set sail for the Mediterranean to join a campaign to protect a fish which is being hunted to extinction.

Street signs up to 'crop swap' campaign

Get planting: Celebrity gardener Chris Collins with St Margarets resident Stephanie Mills and her two children Lewis and Ryan

3:25pm Friday 11th June 2010

A new initiative has launched to encourage communities to battle it out and discover whose street is top of the crops.

Garden wildlife survey set to begin

Garden wildlife survey set to begin

5:50am Saturday 5th June 2010

London’s gardens and outdoor spaces will be under surveillance this week for the UK’s biggest summer wildlife survey.






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