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Finding Fair Trade In Birmingham
Feeling a little lost when it comes to finding fair trade in Birmingham? With support for fair trade increasing worldwide, the amount of fair trade shops in Birmingham have also began to rise. Therefore we have provided you with a guide to the various fair trade shops in and around the West Midlands. View Fair [...]
Birmingham Recycled Podcast Episode 11: Who should get the green vote?
Want to find out which party is offering you better green policies but don’t understand all that political jargon? Sian, Natalie, Chris, Katie and Laura tell all in the eleventh Birmingham Recycled podcast, discussing the top party’s green policies, helping you understand who is giving you the best offer. Topics discussed in the podcast are: [...]
Dudley Metropolitan Council work towards encouraging public to value and use Mary Steven’s Park
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council are working towards transforming Mary Steven’s Park as part of a million pound healthy towns scheme. A healthy towns meeting at Stourbridge town hall has promised to take into consideration the requests of the local public. Healthy towns is a national pilot fund that has provided Dudley Borough Council with 4.5 [...]
Urban Coffee Company urge customers to do more than just drink their coffee
Urban Coffee Company have found a variety of ways to conserve coffee and stop generating ‘tons of coffee waste each year’. Simon Jenner, who owns the coffee shop along with Amir, says: ‘When we started looking at the coffee businesses we realised that the high street stores were sending a serious amount of used coffee [...]
Public asked to set up bee hotels in their garden
OPAL Open Air Laboratories project are encouraging the public to set up an OPAL bee hotel in their garden to help protect bee populations. The project is funded by the National Lottery and aims to get people involved with green spaces, by introducing citizen science in the West Midlands. This has included carrying out a [...]
Questions raised about Birmingham’s nature reserves and aquariums
The Captive Animals’ Protection Society (CAPS) have criticised nature reseves and aquariums like the West Midlands Safari Park and Birmingham Sea Life Centre for the captivity and treatment of the animals they keep. The Manchester based organisation commented after the recent death of trainer Dawn Brancheau at Seaworld in Florida, that it was a ‘consequence [...]