by Qwag | Mar 2, 2023 | Meetings
Our Amazing Vanishing Front Gardens Wednesday 17 May 2023, 7.45pm (online) The costs of losing the most local of green spaces Christine Eborall, Ealing Front Gardens Project In November 2022 even the National Infrastructure Commission reported on rising flood risk...
by Qwag | Mar 2, 2023 | Meetings, News & Events
WAG AGM + The Thames, Wetlands and Aquatic Plants (online) Wednesday 15 March 2023 7.45pm: AGM. 8.30pm: Guest speaker – Dr Mark A. Spencer F.L.S Forensic Botanist and Hon. Curator (Plants), Linnean Society of London Layers of plants at the Thames Road...
by Qwag | Sep 7, 2021 | Meetings
Wednesday 15 September, 8pm – online Professor Sanjeev Gupta hit the news by helping to land NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars from his room above a hairdresser’s in Ladywell. Normally, he would have been at NASA HQ but the pandemic kept him in SE London....
by Qwag | Jul 9, 2021 | Meetings
Wednesday 21 July, 8pm – online Famously, much of Lewisham flooded in 1968. Even today over 2,200 properties are at risk of flooding from run surface water run off. Is the borough taking flood risk seriously or is it building its way into trouble? The question...
by Qwag | Jun 29, 2020 | Meetings
Wednesday 15 July, 8pm-9.30pm (on Zoom) Sarah McMichael will share how she and her Lee Forum colleagues have devised a local Neighbourhood Plan to address community aspirations for a cleaner, safer and greener local area. Sarah will cover how they involved people in...
by Qwag | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019, Meetings
Most of the time we perceive noise as a problem. From road traffic and aircraft to noisy neighbours, we’re surrounded by sounds in towns. Professor Drever will challenge how we perceive the urban ‘soundscape’ and will introduce the idea of the...
by Qwag | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019, Meetings
QWAG 30th birthday AGM + Wildflower meadows on the Quaggy Mark QWAG’s 30th birthday at our 2020 AGM. Celebrate with our famous buffet then hear from our special guest speaker, Catherine Ashcroft, on plans to improve the ecology of the river side with ‘secret’...
by Qwag | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019, Meetings
In search of plant folklore. Roy Vickery of the South London Botanical Institute, and author of Vickery’s Folk Flora (2019), discusses his life’s work collecting information on the folklore and uses of British plants. Bring your own memories of plants,...
by Qwag | Jul 1, 2019 | 2019, Meetings
Presented by Richard Buchanan, Secretary of the Blackheath Scientific Society Richard will present a talk first given by Steve Colclough of the Institute of Fisheries Management. He will speak about the decline and recovery of the water quality of the River Thames and...
