Invisible Library

A scheme where books are left around london and when someone finds it they are asked to write where they found it and when inside the book... they can then read the book and are asked to leave it somewhere when they are done with it. Novel idea which has a sense of community about it and keeps people entertained.

Adopt a bottle bank

Each year community groups and charities are asked take on the responsibility of a bottle bank, by publicising and encouraging people to recycle their glass bottles and jars. The groups will also maintain the up-keep of the site, and reporting any damage of overflowing bottle banks to the council. The council will ensure all the bottle banks are emptied and the area is clean and tidy.

In return for their hard work, the adoptees will receive a financial reward based on the amount of glass collected from their allocated bottle bank. This payment is based on the savings that the council makes from recycling the glass instead of sending it to landfill, where this valuable resource is lost.

Free heroin for addicts

A scheme in which heroin is given to addicts in supervised clinics has led to big reductions in the use of street drugs and crime, the BBC has learned.
More than 100 users took part in the pilot - part funded by the government - in London, Brighton and Darlington.
They either injected heroin or received the drug's substitute methadone.
Those given heroin responded best and an independent panel which monitored the scheme over six months is advising ministers to set up further trials.

Legalized Brothels...

Amsterdam famously has its red light district. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Prostitution will go on legal or not so does it make sense to make safer environments where girls can be monitored and protected rather than the dangerous underground scene that currently exists.

FREE BIKES!

Initially set up in Amsterdam, but now in a handful of other cities like Paris, and Brussels - Europian countries are welcoming the notion of free bikes. The idea is that people sign up to the scheme and can then borrow bikes for free all around the city.

Sell by date...

Squatters in London often go through the bins outside supermarkets at night and find the food that has been binned due to it reaching its sell by date.
A scottish entrepreneur is hoping to solve this problem by making a Website 'to end supermarket waste' by selling food destined for the bin. Leading supermarkets will sell him the food which is nearly out of date and allow him to sell it.
This still leaves a massive problem for me... so much fresh food i.e bread has such a short shelf life shorly all of this correspondence would take to much time in delivery of products etc.
Some supermarkets in Amsterdam have set up a scheme donating the food which is going out of date to homeless shelters - massively beneficial to all parties involved.

Guerilla Gardening

Guerilla Gardening began in 2004... it is a light hearted collective highlighting and acting upon the mass of neglected space around London which is more than adequate to cultivate and grow.It has grown in popularity and is now a large community of people coming together and turning rough urban landscapes into beautiful and colorful patches around London.