Transition Leytonstone has compiled a list of local groups and businesses that are leading the field by reducing waste, conserving energy, reducing transport miles by sourcing locally, and supporting the local community in some way
The E11 charity Transition Leytonstone has created a helpful directory of businesses with staunch environmentally friendly credentials in a bid to bolster and raise awareness of the local green economy.
The directory is a compilation of local groups and businesses that are leading the field by reducing waste, conserving energy and using renewable sources to do so, reducing transport miles by sourcing locally, and supporting the local community in some way.
The list includes grocery shops, bike repair stores, and gardening centres ranging from Stone Mini Market, The Library for Change, Humble Origin, Biketrax, and Church Lane Community Garden, among many other shops.
Humble Origin, for example, makes and sells biologically active mulch and compost from a zero waste ethos. Their intention is to restore local soils through much needed carbon, nitrogen and humic acids. The new shop’s green credentials are further bolstered by the fact that they collect and deliver produce with electric cargo bikes, minimising local road pollution.
Announcing the directory in their weekly newsletter, Transition Leytonstone said: “Talking to people in local businesses, organisations and community groups we have found many of them making a real effort to reduce carbon emissions and also to support the local community and economy. To give them the publicity they deserve, and to help local people wanting to shop more ethically to find those green shoots and to create more, we are launching our new Green Directory.”
Transition is also holding a winter social at Stone Mini Market in Leytonstone High Road on Tuesday 8th December from 6.30pm to 8pm, with guests getting their first drink of mulled wine or cider on the house.
Read the Green Directory here
If you would like to suggest a business, an organisation such as a place of worship or a school, or a community group, for inclusion in the directory, please email [email protected]
To attend the winter social please email [email protected]
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