Alessandro Rota

Photographer

Sustainable London?

Oxford Street, London (UK) 21.0...O2 of any European capital city

Oxford Street, London (UK) 21.02.2014 - Europe's busiest shopping street and the highest levels of NO2 of any European capital city

Hyde Park, London (UK) 21.02.20... the wettest January since 1910

Hyde Park, London (UK) 21.02.2014 - January 2014 has been the wettest January since 1910

Oxford Street, London (UK) 21.0...haust emission of road vehicles

Oxford Street, London (UK) 21.02.2014 - London has the highest levels of NO2 of any European capital city. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is the exhaust emission of road vehicles

Old Compton St, City of Westmin...alternative for local transport

Old Compton St, City of Westminster, London (UK) 18.02.2014 - Rickshaw regulation in London is problematic but they offer a greener alternative for local transport

Charing Cross Rd, City of Westm...alternative for local transport

Charing Cross Rd, City of Westminster, London (UK) 18.02.2014 - Rickshaw regulation in London is problematic but they offer a greener alternative for local transport

Clapham High St, London Borough...ned bunker rented from the TFL.

Clapham High St, London Borough of Lambeth (UK) 10.02.2014 - ZeroCarbonFood project is crowdfounding the resources needed to produce local salad underground (33meters above the surface) in an abandoned bunker rented from the TFL.

Clapham High St, London Borough... (left) and Steven Drin (right)

Clapham High St, London Borough of Lambeth (UK) 10.02.2014. ZeroCarbonFood co-farmers and project-founders Richard Ballard (left) and Steven Drin (right)

Dalston Lane, London Borough of...hop hydroponics growing systems

Dalston Lane, London Borough of Hackney (UK) 13.02.2014 - FARM:shop hydroponics growing systems

Dalston Lane, London Borough of...ics to produce sustainable food

Dalston Lane, London Borough of Hackney (UK) 13.02.2014 - FARM:shop eco and social design-driven urban farm with innovative growing systems using aquaponics and hydroponics to produce sustainable food

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Dalston Lane, London Borough of Hackney (UK) 13.02.2014 - FARM:shop eco and socialdesign-driven urban farm produce sustainable food

Dalston Lane, London Borough of...s and aquaponics growing system

Dalston Lane, London Borough of Hackney (UK) 13.02.2014 - FARM:shop hydroponics and aquaponics growing system

London Borough of Southwark (UK...'Guerrilla Gardening'

London Borough of Southwark (UK) March 2011 - Richard Reynolds author of the book 'Guerrilla Gardening'

London Borough of Southwark (UK...evelop their own neighborhoods.

London Borough of Southwark (UK) March 2011 - Guerrilla Gardening is an organic movement whose objective is the illegal cultivation of someone else's land. Through their cultivation the guerrilla gardeners seek to improve the landscape, and gain the interest of the local community in order to develop their own neighborhoods.

Oxford Street, London (UK) 21.02.2014 - daily bikers

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Public Project

Sustainable London?

Copyright Alessandro Rota 2025

Updated Feb 2014

Topics air, bike, carbon, Documentary, Editorial, Environmental, Food, NO2, Photography, pollution, Street

UK's carbon emissions are dangerously high. With London having the worst nitrogen dioxide levels in Europe. Currently the EU is making amendments due to missing its NO2 targets. The work I am undertaking explores contemporary solutions which people are experimenting with in order to low emissions.

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