Environment
Barcelona News
Urban allotment network to expand.
The local department of parks and gardens has signed an agreement with La Caixa Foundation aimed at expanding the network of graden allotments in the city. The accord follws the recent assignment of t...
Vienna News
Poster campaign to combat dog waste.
Following the success of the petition Parents Against Dog Droppings, signed by more than 157,000 Viennese citizens earlier this year, the city council has launched a poster campaign aimed at convincin...
Madrid News
Madrid is one of the few European capitals along with Helsinki, Stockholm and Budapest participating in the In town without my car day as part of the European Mobility Week 2006 from 16-22 September....
Dublin News
In an effort to keep the Irish capitals streets clean, city council litter wardens are issuing fines of 125 each to motorists who throw their cigarette butts out of the car window. This year the numbe...
Oxford News
Trap Grounds to be registered as town green.
Following years of campaigning by a local Oxford group, a three-acre area of scrubland, grassland and woodland known as the Trap Grounds in North Oxford looks set to be registered by the county counci...
Madrid News
New recycled water deposit inaugurated.
Madrid mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardn has inaugurated a new recycled water deposit in the Parque del Oeste. The deposit has a capacity of 6,000 cubic metres which will be used to irrigate the Oeste and L...
Paris News
Water conservation measures in Paris.
Continuing low levels in the Seine Normandie basin, which supplies Paris with water, have led the city council to confirm its summer water saving drive. Measures include limiting street washing to ear...
Berlin News
Handling the heat wave in Berlin.
While six weeks of over 30 temperatures have caused many of Germanys rivers to become stagnant pools, with hundreds of dead fish found in canals and lakes in Berlin, the
local population in the Germ...
London News
London forges new climate alliance.
A new partnership between the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group,(LCCLG), representing the mayors of 22 of the worlds biggest cities, and former US president Bill Clinton has been launched in Los...
Oxford News
Heat relief for Oxfords elderly.
Soaring temperatures in Britain this summer have prompted Oxford city council to offer grants for the installation of insulation in the homes of Oxford residents over 60 years of age. The grants are a...
Oxford News
Oxford boosts recycling service.
Oxford city council has given the go-ahead to a new recycling scheme which should more than double current recycling levels. The new scheme, to be launched in September 2006, will be introduced in two...
London News
Higher congestion charge for polluting vehicles.
London mayor Ken Livingston has announced plans for a differentiated congestion charge in central and western London, favouring vehicles with low CO2 emissions and punishing high-polluting cars like t...
Paris News
Two new branches of the car-sharing company operated by Caisse-Commune have just opened in Saint-Michel and Mairie in the 17th arrondissement, bring the total number of auto-partage stations in Paris...
Barcelona News
Barcelona city council has launched a comprehensive drive to improve the capitals beaches. A recycling awareness campaign, with posters featuring four comic strip super-heroes in the act of collecting...
Berlin News
Reichstag hosts World Cup Arena.
A replica of Berlins Olympiastadion in front of the historic German parliament building is to give football fans the chance to watch the screenings of 2006 Football World Cup matches broadcast live in...
Vienna News
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud is being celebrated in Vienna, where the father of psychoanalysis lived and worked for eight decades. A special exhibition entitled The Couch. Think...
Madrid News
City council plans to redevelop the boulevards linking the Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen museums with the Cibeles fountain are causing controversy because of their possible impact on the trees in the...
Barcelona News
Five new underground stations and a new bus route are part of the city councils comprehensive transport project for the Zona Franca industrial park in the Poble Nou neighbourhood. Underground line 9,...
Oxford News
Oxford city council has allotted 75,000 to a get-tough campaign targeting illegal rubbish dumping, littering, graffiti artists, noisy neighbours and dog fouling. The money will be spent on educating t...
Oxford News
A team of six rangers is already at work seven days a week patrolling Oxfords parks. A 150,000 project has been approved by the city council to provide a visible public presence in local parks. The ra...
