Archive for May, 2009
Go ‘veggie’ and help the environment
Ghent, Belgium’s second largest municipality has announced a weekly ‘veggie day’ where residents of Ghent will banish meat from their diets for one day every week in an effort to reduce the city’s carbon emissions. Even Council officials will be served vegetarian meals one day every week and are encouraging the rest of the town [...]
New car scrappage scheme is not as green as we thought
Today’s the day that the government put their ‘going green’ car scrappage scheme into play in order to benefit poorer drivers and potentially the environment, but vehicle manufacturers and the ETA (Environmental Transport Association) have challenged how ‘green’ the scheme really is. The scrappage scheme offers a discount on new vehicles of £1000 – £2000 [...]
LDV Vans buy out paves way for electric van future
Birmingham van company LDV have received an offer from Malaysian car importer Weststar in a last ditch buy out, Sky News reports. The offer, thought to have been signed on Monday night, is set to save hundreds of jobs and allow LDV to restart production this July, after 8 months of closure. This has also [...]
Be on the Bat Watch
Birmingham Parks are now working as project partners with Opal West Midlands which aims to bring science alive for local people by investigating just how well wildlife is doing in the city and what improvements can be made including the neighborhood for bats project. The neighbourhood bats project aims to asses the current quality/habitat available [...]
Manufacturing firms encouraged to embrace renewables despite recession
Manufacturing companies from Birmingham and the West Midlands will be able to get an insight into the renewable energy industry at the end of the month, despite many companies battling the recession. The event is organised the Corporate Finance Faculty at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and will be held [...]
Birmingham Recycled’s Top Ten Conservation Projects
Birmingham Recycled have put together our top ten current environmental conservation projects around Birmingham that you can get involved with. The green markers indicate nature projects, whereas the red indicates animal projects, yellow markers are building conservation, purple is recycling campaigns and turquoise is for noise pollution campaigns. Be sure to tell Birmingham Recycled what [...]
Walk to School Week – 18 – 22 May 2009
Pupils across the West Midlands will be united in this year’s Walk to School week. Kicking off next week, Birmingham City Council’s Road Safety Team will be launching the event at Christ the King Catholic Primary School in Kingstanding on Monday. Working with the 1,700 schools, the campaign aims to get children across the region [...]
Xerox to release new environmentally friendly printer
Earlier this month, Xerox announced plans of a new printer which will reduce both waste and energy, the Xerox ColorQubeTM 9200 Xerox, who have taken part in various environmental campaigns in the past, claim that the new system will reduce printing waste by a whopping 90%. This is because the new system will use solid [...]