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 [...]
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 [...]
Future unsure for Centre of the Earth
The Wildlife Trust’s Centre of the Earth in Winson Green might be used as headquarters for the organisation instead of being an education facility as employees are planning on being transferred. The current Head of Centre Andrew Simons is being made redundant. The Wildlife Trust say however that there will still be the same educational [...]
Blame The Cows!
You may not have realised it but internationally, the meat industry on a whole produces a chunky slice that is 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. This huge slab of pollution is partly down to the carbon dioxide emission caused by fertilization used on the cattle’s feed crop and farm machinery to harvest it. [...]
Government urged to save British bees
Birmingham bees will soon be extinct unless the government steps in to act by dedicating more money to research, claims organisation Help Save Bees. As National Honey Week begins today, Help Save Bees states that different breeds of bumblebees and honeybees are dying out because of pesticides, land management reforms, farming practices, government legislation and [...]
Birmingham Recycled Episode 4: Conservation
In this 4th. podcast from the conservation team at Birmingham Recycled; Emma, Kimberley, Natalie and Katie talks about reducing packaging on Easter eggs, the conservation management plan at Lickey Hills and and the issues surrounding water pollution in Britain. Cadbury have reduced their packaging on some of their waster egg products, but have they done [...]
Public Pond Survey
As discussed in a previous article, ponds are a great resource for communities and a haven for wildlife. However, information on what’s inhabiting these ponds isn’t always easily available. The Birmingham City Council wants to know more about the wildlife in gardens and ponds throughout the city. To find this information out, they offer a [...]
UK eco-villages
I searched one of my social networks, Greenerpeople (environmental forum/community), and found some comments on a thread about an eco-village in Cornwall/eco-villages in general. What is an eco-village? According to eco-village network UK, Ecovillage – Sustainable, low-impact community with some shared ownership/management of land. Percy, a Greenerpeople junior member, says: “I have a friend who [...]