Karen Liebreich
@kareninagarden.bsky.social
Writer, guerrilla gardener. "Small acts of defiant beauty." Writes books, plants green stuff.
karenliebreich.com, abundancelondon.com
karenliebreich.com, abundancelondon.com
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I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Interview about Planting some Sh*t and Building a Greener City
thegreenlondoner.co.uk/plant-some-s...
#chiswick
thegreenlondoner.co.uk/plant-some-s...
#chiswick
‘Plant some sh*t—and then look after it’: Karen Liebreich on Building a Greener City” - The Green Londoner
We sat down with Karen Liebreich — writer, gardener, environmental activist, and non-fiction author — on a mild October afternoon at the W6 Garden
thegreenlondoner.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Interview about Planting some Sh*t and Building a Greener City
thegreenlondoner.co.uk/plant-some-s...
#chiswick
thegreenlondoner.co.uk/plant-some-s...
#chiswick
Why does modern architecture have to be so ugly? The new floors plonked on top of #Olympia. Meanwhile the old gates a few hundred yards away some beautiful old gates enhanced by stylish Halloween decorations @createstreets.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Why does modern architecture have to be so ugly? The new floors plonked on top of #Olympia. Meanwhile the old gates a few hundred yards away some beautiful old gates enhanced by stylish Halloween decorations @createstreets.bsky.social
Looks like my clever agent picked a winner here #CatherineClarke, A History of England in 25 poems. @gordonelliott.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Looks like my clever agent picked a winner here #CatherineClarke, A History of England in 25 poems. @gordonelliott.bsky.social
Multi-tasking. Preparing @abundancelondon.bsky.social posters for #AppleDay while reading about Parisian art.
August 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Multi-tasking. Preparing @abundancelondon.bsky.social posters for #AppleDay while reading about Parisian art.
Two colour-co-ordinated local influencers at today's @cheesemarket.bsky.social #lucycufflin and #bridgetosborne
August 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Two colour-co-ordinated local influencers at today's @cheesemarket.bsky.social #lucycufflin and #bridgetosborne
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21 July 1895 | A German Jewish woman, Grete Liebreich, was born in Wattenscheid.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
July 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
21 July 1895 | A German Jewish woman, Grete Liebreich, was born in Wattenscheid.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
June 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Just read this gripping, moving book. See you in #Chiswick in September. Will raise you grandmothers named Erna Borger, Studentenfutter & Viennese Nazis @julianborger.bsky.social @torindouglas.bsky.social @mliebreich.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just read this gripping, moving book. See you in #Chiswick in September. Will raise you grandmothers named Erna Borger, Studentenfutter & Viennese Nazis @julianborger.bsky.social @torindouglas.bsky.social @mliebreich.bsky.social
I won a prize for science @pintofscience.uk! This is unheard of. I can't tell you how chuffed I am with my engraved beer glass.
May 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I won a prize for science @pintofscience.uk! This is unheard of. I can't tell you how chuffed I am with my engraved beer glass.
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1/ The Trump admin may be about to greenlight the export of advanced AI chips to the Gulf. If it does so, it will place the most important technology of the 21st C at the whims of autocrats with expanding ties to China and interests very far from those of the US.
May 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
1/ The Trump admin may be about to greenlight the export of advanced AI chips to the Gulf. If it does so, it will place the most important technology of the 21st C at the whims of autocrats with expanding ties to China and interests very far from those of the US.
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Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment:
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment:
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Turns out the newts didn’t do it
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Turns out the newts didn’t do it
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... @kareninagarden.bsky.social (Chiswick Flower Market) whom we have worked with on a number of projects tells the tale of Ginkgo Corner in our latest blog here www.createstreets.com/ginkgo-corne...
Ginkgo Corner: carving out new public realm in Chiswick - Create Streets
In 2024 Create Streets helped the Chiswick Flower Market run a community consultation on how to improve the public realm along Chiswick High Road using our Create Communities platform. It’s not often ...
www.createstreets.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
... @kareninagarden.bsky.social (Chiswick Flower Market) whom we have worked with on a number of projects tells the tale of Ginkgo Corner in our latest blog here www.createstreets.com/ginkgo-corne...
Organising a brainful of ideas. Art book, public art project, apple book, guerrilla gardens...
April 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Organising a brainful of ideas. Art book, public art project, apple book, guerrilla gardens...
London street scene with moon.
April 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
London street scene with moon.
Norway ski touring.
March 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Norway ski touring.
Planted a stunning flowering dogwood tree on the High Road today. #Chiswick #GinkgoCorner @chiswickflowers.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Planted a stunning flowering dogwood tree on the High Road today. #Chiswick #GinkgoCorner @chiswickflowers.bsky.social
A host of daffodils in an #AbundanceLondon garden. And a dumped cutlery stacker. Go figure?
March 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A host of daffodils in an #AbundanceLondon garden. And a dumped cutlery stacker. Go figure?
Turnham Green Terrace piazza, created by #abundancelondon. Flowers + benches + art = music
March 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Turnham Green Terrace piazza, created by #abundancelondon. Flowers + benches + art = music
Acton Green crocus wave @abundancelondon.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Acton Green crocus wave @abundancelondon.bsky.social