Archive for April, 2009
Disney works with The Woodland Trust
Disney is working with the Woodland Trust of the UK to raise money, awareness, and create a 50 acre wood. “The Magical Woodland” (to be titled “The Magical Wood”) within already existing 858 acre Heartland Forest in Hertfordshire (near St Albans). It will be funded by the sale of specially designed and reusable Earth [...]
IKEA: using green credentials for good publicity?
IKEA have come under increasing criticism from environmental agencies in the UK and abroad, because of glaring failings and hypocrisy in their green credentials. The criticism includes IKEA’s West Midlands’ store, located on the outskirts of Wednesbury via the M6: ‘When we are planning a new IKEA store, the issue of good public transport links [...]
Podcast Episode 2: Cquestrate
Chris Unitt from Birmingham, who was involved in the online launch of the Cquestrate project, is talking to the Technology group about a possible solution to climate change. Cquestrate is the brainchild of Tim Kruger and the idea is broken down into two parts. First, you heat limestone to a very high temperature, until it [...]
Public like litter fine cutback
Birmingham Recycled have discovered that some members of the public are happy with Sandwell Council’s proposal to cut litter fines because of the recession. The Express and Star stated that Sandwell would be the first authority in the West Midlands to implement the measure, which sees fixed penalty notices for offences including dropping litter and [...]
Birmingham construction firm teams up to help combat climate change
Construction Company Thomas vale announced plans of introducing a divison with the purpose of aiding public sectors such as schools, local authorities and housing associations in instaling and operating sustianable energy technologies The firm sets out to deliver new sustainbale techmologies such as air source heat pumps, biomass biolers and heat power systems to clients [...]
Weekly roundup and the first podcast
This week was pretty exciting as we released the first of our podcasts. We will release podcasts on a weekly basis every Monday and you can either listen to them here on the site, or subscribe using iTunes or any other feedreader. Saturday was Earth Hour and I’m happy to say that we got a [...]
Bike Week 2009
”Bike Week”, the UK’s largest mass participation cycling event has been launched to take place this year from Saturday 13th – Sunday 21st June. With the slogan “Get more out of life – live local, get cycling!”, the week-long event aims to inspire people all over the country to discover the enjoyment and benefits of [...]
Government urged to tackle greenwash
A clear system of environmental labelling is needed to tackle the growing problem of greenwash, the deceptive use of promotion concerning how environmentally friendly products are, a report released this week claims. The Environmental Audit Committee are calling for the Government to introduce a universal scheme that uses clear, simple criteria and propose that an independent body should [...]