North London Food & Culture

Day: 24 July 2012

Life Tips Special: Green Your Gaff with Jon Cowdrill

In today’s column, let’s consider gadgets and appliances. Reducing our carbon emissions in NW5 and beyond can only be achieved by reducing our energy demand and increasing the proportion supplied by renewable sources. Demand reduction will play a larger part than renewables, but it’s often overlooked. It might not capture the imagination like high-tech solar …

Life Tips Special: Green Your Gaff with Jon Cowdrill Read More »

A tribute to not getting lost. Or – How I drew the North London Arts Map

Human beings have always had an instinct to map their surroundings. Order from chaos. Significance from nothingness. The first petroglyphs on stone depicted agricultural crops, carved by the village shamen on behalf of the people, a right-rumpus pleading with the Gods to see that crops did not fail. These maps were not topographically accurate, but …

A tribute to not getting lost. Or – How I drew the North London Arts Map Read More »