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London to Launch UK’s First ‘Hydrogen Highway’

Andrew Williams — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:36:42 +0000

London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced plans to create Britain’s first “hydrogen highway” by building a network of hydrogen filling stations throughout the capital.

As part of the scheme, a pilot fleet of around 150 hydrogen cars, five buses and 20 black taxis will be assembled in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.

The flamboyant mayor has gone on record as saying that he wants Britain to become a world leader in fuel cell technology and his team have made the ambitious claim that, within twenty years, up to one in three of the 31m cars in Britain could be fuelled by hydrogen.

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London to Plant 2 Million Trees by 2025

Bryan Nelson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:22:19 +0000

London’s mayor announced a new 2 million tree plan to help fight climate change and keep Londoners cool.

The plan is designed to counteract the “urban heat island effect” in which urban areas absorb and release more heat than surrounding areas, due to having more pavement, traffic and power demand.

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100,000 Electric Cars to Hit London Streets, Pledges Mayor

The Guardian Environment Network — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:44:44 +0000

Boris Johnson announces commitment to making electric cars ‘first choice for Londoners’, pledging £20m ($29m) of the GLA budget. Written by Alok Jha and shared over the Guardian Environment Network.

London mayor Boris Johnson announced today his intent to make the city the electric car capital of Europe. He said he wanted to introduce 100,000 electric cars to the capital’s streets and to build an infrastructure of 25,000 charging points in public streets, car parks and shops.

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Ken Livingstone : Political Environmental Leader

Chris Milton — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:37:19 +0000

This article is part of EcoWorldly’s week-long spotlight on Politicians You Can Believe In. To read more, subscribe to our RSS feed, or view our posts about politics.

Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, has had a colourful professional life.

Always a social radical, he pushed the boundaries of London politics as leader of the Greater London Council in the early 1980s. By constantly attacking the Thatcher government’s policies he ensured unemployment, race issues and nuclear disarmament remained high on the news agenda.

After a hiatus as a Member of Parliament he returned to the tiller as Mayor of London in 2000 and surprised many by his comparatively moderate stance on many issues.

However, he had lost none of his radicalism and he quickly set about pushing the boundaries once more, but this time in a green direction. Here are five of his world leading initiatives, which politicians of all hues ought to take notice of.

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