Lickey Hills Conservation Day letdown: no publicity, no people
Only two members of the public attended the Lickey Hills Conservation Workday on Sunday 8th March. No advertising for the preseveration event was arranged to reach the local community apart from details in Birmingham City Council’s Out And About brochure, which lists the events of all local parks. The day, which involved clearing trees and [...]
Live blogging from the conservation workday at Lickey Hils
Birmingham Recycled reporters Natalie Adcock and Emma Williams spend their Sunday helping out at the Lickey Hills conservation workday. The eco-warriors had the great idea of giving live blogging a try. Equipped with their mobile phones, they were able to keep users updated throughout the day by sending messages directly to their twitter feed. In [...]
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We always welcome suggestions from our users and value them very much. Craig McGinty recently suggested that we do a weekly round up of what’s been going on around here. I will look more into the option of turning this into an email newsletter, but for this first one I will stick to a post [...]
Clean Birmingham scheme branded failure and waste of money by MP.
A scheme to clean Birmingham streets which cost the council an estimated £20,000 has been branded a failure just six months in to the campaign by MP Liam Byrne. The supposed ‘blitz’ which took place earlier this year saw 68 on the spot £60 fines dished out to members of the public by environmental wardens, unsurprisingly over half refused [...]
Reduction in 2009′s Easter Waste
This year’s Easter sees confectionary giants Birmingham-based Cadbury, Nestle, Marks and Spencer and Mars achieving significant reductions in the packaging of chocolate eggs. The move came after a voluntary agreement by the sector last year to tackle the waste from egg packaging that amounts to 3,000 tonnes yearly in the United Kingdom by 155,000 tonnes [...]
Coventry City goes Eco-friendly
The final designs for Coventry City Centre’s revamp were revealed at the end of last month. The massive overhaul, costing a whopping £1billion, has been designed by Los Angeles-based architects, Jerde Partnership, who have designed cities all over the world. The design has taken a year to complete, taking on board the ideas of the [...]
WWF target Birmingham attractions
The World Wildlife Federation are targeting Birmingham’s main attractions, including the NEC, ICC and NIA, to participate in their global “Earth Hour” campaign. The organisation was in the UK’s second city today to convince local businesses and authorities to turn of their lights for one hour at 8.30pm, March 28th 2009, to show their support [...]
Clean up our waters
Marine wildlife is suffering at the hands of humans who are not disposing of their garbage responsibly. Thanks to developing science, the innocent animals that are continually mistaking cigarette butts and detergent bottles for their dinner are at less risk of dying at the hands of careless humans who are littering oceans, lakes and rivers. [...]