Archive for February, 2010
Clothes swap is a big hit for Northfield Ecocentre
Clothes recycling at Northfield Ecocentre has proven that getting ‘new’ clothes can be friendly to the environment and your purse. The centre held its first ‘clothes swap’ on Thursday evening (February 25), with local residents and volunteers recycling their unwanted items for ‘new’ pieces donated by others. Organisers, Nell Osborne and Trudy Gallagher were surprised [...]
Staff and students at Birmingham University get involved with Fairtrade Fortnight
As part of ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’ Birmingham University staff and students have been getting involved with promoting Fairtrade products. On Monday (21st February) evening they held their first event of the fortnight ‘Fairtrade Wine Tasting’ where members of the public and university came along to taste some of the best Fairtrade wine, with grapes coming from [...]
Woodgate’s Conservation Workdays ‘desperately’ need the public
Woodgate Valley Country Park ‘desperately’ need volunteers for their Conservation Workdays on 4th and 18th March to help improve the park for the public. The poor weather this winter has put people off helping and hindered the output of their annual Conservation work. Woodgate have been holding their Conservation Workdays for the past 5 years [...]
Birmingham resilience get us prepared for predicted floods
The Environment Agency and Birmingham Resilience are teaming up to host a flood awareness drop in session for local people who are curious about how to cope in flooded conditions. The aim of the session is to prepare locals for such emergencies and how to reduce the risk. The session, set to take place on [...]
Half term fun in the snow
Birmingham residents enjoyed the school half term this week by spending the last few days sledging, dog walking and enjoying the scenery of Birmingham’s snow covered parks. The snow, which started yesterday (Thursday), covered the city in a white blanket. Many residents took to parks like the Lickey Hills (see photographs below), Cannon Hill Park [...]
Birmingham students find a lack of knowledge about recycling
Students from Birmingham City University making the documentary A Greener Brum have found that the reason for the public’s mixed response to recycling is a lack of knowledge about the issue. Film student Luke De La Nougerede and his group mates spoke to members of the public who generally said that they did not see [...]
Delivery van journeys becoming more resourceful
The delivery van industry in Birmingham and across the countery is becoming more eco-friendly with a system that uses their return journeys home, normally done with an empty load, to deliver more goods. This company Anyvan was created by Angus Elphinstone and Ben Goor, who say that it was a result of the frustration they felt [...]
Government neglecting energy security
Spokesperson for Ofgem John Moylan has warned Birmingham and all other mainland areas in the UK to prepare for their gas and electricity bills to increase even more over the next few years. He added that the energy industry is going to need two hundred billion pounds worth of investment and that mainland Britain could [...]