Is the new Birmingham Airport Air Quality leaflet to stop residents from complaining?
Birmingham residents feel that Birmingham Airport’s new Air Quality Leaflets about oily deposits, fuel dumping, contrails and odours is merely a tool to stop complaints. The leaflet aims to help local residents understand the issues better and is available for downloading from the Birmingham Airports website. However residents feel that their complaints are not receiving [...]
Cadbury maintain that they are doing enough to be green this Easter
Cadbury have released a statement confirming that under the new management of Kraft, they are still committed to maintaining an eco work ethic. Since Kraft’s takeover of the Birmingham-based confectionary company in January this year, customers have been left wondering whether the company will commit to previously set goals by Cadbury aiming to reduce the [...]
Birmingham queues up to join world-record breaking World Water Day campaign
Campaigners in Birmingham are planning on joining thousands of others in over 50 countries in a symbolic queue for the toilet to urge Britain to tackle the national and global sanitation crisis. The stunt is a bid to make a Guinness World Record for “The World’s Longest Toilet Queue“. The event which will take place [...]
Topshop refuses to validate new ‘fairtrade’ range
Topshop’s new range of fairtrade clothing as part of this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight is under criticism after evidence suggests that the conditions faced by those who make the clothes are less than fair. Philip Green, owner of the Arcadia group, which incorporates Topshop/Topman, has refused to sign up to the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) which [...]
Body Shop’s new ethical range uses recycled scents
The Body Shop have just launched their new ‘It’s Back!‘ range, featuring some scents that will be familiar to all those who were around in the 80s and 90s, and all 100% ethical. The range features ‘banana shampoo & conditioner’, ‘dewberry shower gel & body lotion’, & ‘carrot moisture cream’ to name but a few, [...]
Oxfam aid worker talks to Birmingham about climate change
Birmingham University’s Oxfam Outreach Society hosted a talk last night by Oxfam aid worker Arbab Shakar as part of his tour of the UK. The event took place at The University of Birmingham and aimed to raise awareness of the impact of climate change in Pakistan by providing an insight into the first hand experiences [...]
Aston University bags the Bronze award for ‘EcoCampus’ campaign
Aston University has just been awarded the bronze award as they successfully completed the first stage of the ‘EcoCampus’ campaign. EcoCampus is an Environmental Management system that is tailored to help universities meet the ‘Environmental Management Standard (ISO14001). The programme, which has four stages, takes place over a three year period. During those three years [...]
Broad Street isn’t so ‘broad minded’ ethically
Green nightclubs have sprung up in cities such as New York, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Chicago, & most-recently in London, but there are not any in Birmingham. ‘The clubs are fast-becoming an eco-friendly trend on the high street, sporting energy-efficient dance floors, waterless urinals/toilets, leaf-covered ceilings, and ‘eco Vodka’ (to name but a few). The largest and [...]