Birmingham parks for the week beginning 17th August
Another week, another pack of activities waiting for us in Birmingham’s beautiful parks this summer!
In the Kingfish Country Park, you can go wild for a Family Fun Day with “Wellie wanging, duck racing and lots more antics” on Wednesday from 10AM. It is recommended that you wear sturdy footwear and light refreshments are provided. Perhaps [...]
Organic foods bite back.
A recent report published by the Food Standards Agency has left a sour taste in the collective mouths of Birmingham organic food buisnesses. Organic buisnesses have been under enough pressure with the recession, damning reports and comissioned findings such as these are only making the problem for organic food sales a whole lot worse…
The paper published on [...]
Cadbury’s future looking green.
Being one of the largest companies and manufacturer’s in the UK hasn’t made Cadbury forget about or desregard the importance of their carbon and enviromental footprint.
Launching the ‘Purple Goes Green’ initative back in 2007, Cadbury are looking ahead to the future and have set out a series of goals and targets they hope to achieve by [...]
Tuesday Walkabout
Birmingham has our very own outdoor gym going on every week with the Friends of Kings Norton Nature Reserve’s Tuesday Walkabout.
The sessions are a mix of relaxing in good company, enjoying our local habitat and exercising by performing essential jobs such as picking up litter, cutting plants where necessary or building a boardwalk.
The sessions are [...]
Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition 2009.
From the 15th-17th of September, Birmingham’s very own NEC Arena will host the yearly Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition.
This UK event see’s the biggest players and companies in the waste and recycling field take over the Birmingham arena. Along with hundreds of stalls demonstrating areas of the industry such as products, brands and management technique, there is a [...]
Birmingham parks for the week beginning 10th August
Time for another weekly roundup of the activities in Birmingham’s parks, but despite it being summer we have only four activities to report on for this week.
On Saturday 15th August from 2PM, in the Edgbaston Reservoir there’s the chance to get involved with a History Day Guided Walk, reminiscing back to 1823 when the reservoir [...]
Co operative green energy for schools scheme
Schools all over the country are going greener, thanks to the Co Operative’s latest eco-friendly scheme.
Through the scheme, which started in 2007, the Co Operative have invested over £1 million to date in installing solar panels in Primary schools all over the UK.
These solar panels enable schools to save the planet and their electricity bill [...]
Green E-commerce
Online shopping has risen over the past few years. People using e-commerce to reach everything they need. But the bigger question has become “Is online shopping greener?”
Discussions about whether online shopping is actually ‘greener’ than physically going out to get shopping have sparked interests. Points such as a cut in pollution due to less transport being [...]