We’re going green! Newham Voices is launching a campaign to support your efforts to confront the threat of climate change.

We know that our readers are passionate about the environment. It was the single most important topic highlighted by residents in this year’s council survey of community concerns.

So our collective New Year’s resolution for 2022 is to focus on telling the story of how people in the Borough are playing their part in making our air safer, our streets cleaner and our business greener.

We want to hear from you on what you are doing at home, at work, at school and in your social life to protect, conserve and enhance Newham’s environment.

The council and climate-change campaigners want to turn Newham into a resource-efficient, green, and competitive low-carbon local economy that ends the threat from air pollution, fly-tipping and poor waste management, all of them risks to health and wellbeing.

Many residents, including young people, are frustrated that the issues are not being taken seriously. Some are protesting, others are making changes in their lives to deal with the crisis – but many people are still in the dark about the climate change crisis and what it means for them.

Our Green Action campaign will provide information on how people at grassroots level are coping with change and how they are integrating concerns about the environment into their everyday lives.

In this issue we highlight some of the concerns – showing how little changes can have a big effect, even at Christmas.

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