Natalie Adcock
Midlanders can Tweet for charity
The world’s first Twitterthon will be taking place tomorrow (Tuesday 16th June) at 11AM, where Computer Aid (or @Computer_Aid) will be campaigning for an ambitious 1,000 donations of old computers in four hours to help schools and hospitals in the developing world.
Birmingham Recycled has previously spoken about how people in the Midlands can donate old [...]
Birmingham Recycled Episode 7: West Midlands Safari Park’s World Environment Weekend
Last weekend the West Midlands Safari Park played host to a variety of activities aiming to raise awareness about environmental issues in celebration of World Environment Day on Friday 5th June.
I went along to the activities to see how truly committed the park is to helping the environment after previously being concerned by their methods [...]
West Midlands Safari Park celebrates World Environment Day
The West Midlands Safari Park last weekend played host to a variety of activities raising awareness about environmental issues for World Environment Day, which is on Friday 5th June.
The education classroom was turned into a free centre where you could calculate your carbon footprint and learn how to reduce it.
For children there was the chance [...]
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 your top [...]
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 events taking [...]
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 pollution.
Help [...]
Public like litter fine cutback
Birmingham Recycled have discovered that some members of the public are happy with Sandwell Council’s proposal to cut litter fines because of the recession.
The Express and Star stated that Sandwell would be the first authority in the West Midlands to implement the measure, which sees fixed penalty notices for offences including dropping litter and cigarette [...]
Government urged to tackle greenwash
A clear system of environmental labelling is needed to tackle the growing problem of greenwash, the deceptive use of promotion concerning how environmentally friendly products are, a report released this week claims.
The Environmental Audit Committee are calling for the Government to introduce a universal scheme that uses clear, simple criteria and propose that an independent body should monitor [...]