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Top award for city energy saver plan Dec 20 2011

A PRESTIGIOUS international honour has been awarded to the city council’s Birmingham Energy Savers (BES) programme.Read

New trees set to spruce up borough Dec 20 2011

A NEW environment champion has donated a tree-mendous 116 saplings to help spruce up Solihull.Read

Go Green: Christmas call to rehome hens Dec 13 2011

THE British Hen Welfare Trust is calling on people to re-home some hens for Christmas.Read

Go Green: School holds food market Dec 13 2011

A NEW food market begins tomorrow as part of an innovative two-year programme to get Kingstanding families growing, cooking and eating their own healthy food.Read

More wood burning stoves sold by Shropshire firm Dec 13 2011

A SHROPSHIRE firm has seen an increase in the amount of people thinking green and buying a wood-burning stove.Read

Go Green: Council's boost for eco homes Dec 06 2011

A STREET of 28 new eco homes has been built in Morville Street, Ladywood.Read

Go Green: Waste recycling plant is almost completed Dec 06 2011

A NEW £2 million waste recycling facility at Aldridge is on track to be completed this month.Read

Go Green: Canal plain sailing to rescue dormice Dec 06 2011

NATURAL habitats along parts of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal are being improved in a bid to help boost populations of the endangered Hazel dormouse.Read

Go Green: Success for Birmingham energy project Nov 22 2011

RESIDENTS have been doing their bit to save the planet as part of an international energy project.Read

Go Green: New inhaler recycling scheme is rolled out Nov 22 2011

PEOPLE with respiratory illnesses in Birmingham can now recycle their inhalers for the first time as part of Complete the Cycle.Read

Go Green: School bus had its chips Nov 15 2011

A SCHOOL in Sparkbrook will soon be able to power its minibus using cooking fats, oils and grease.Read

Go Green: Countdown to new city hotel Nov 15 2011

THE countdown to the opening of Birmingham’s newest hotel is on after the final piece of roofing was fixed into place.Read

Fears for the UK's fuel-poor Nov 01 2011

THE Government’s flagship Green Deal energy efficiency scheme could leave fuel-poor households out in the cold, a thinktank has warned.Read

Large butterfly set to hatch at Midland farm Nov 01 2011

ONE of the world’s largest species of butterfly is emerging at Stratford Butterfly Farm.Read

Eco-schools given praise Oct 25 2011

FOUR local schools have been praised for their efforts to be more sustainable.Read

MP helps to clean up park Oct 25 2011

SOLIHULL MP Lorely Burt cleaned up Langley Hall Park with youngsters from the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh Birmingham.Read

Mela launches canal project Oct 18 2011

A MELA held alongside the canal in Bordesley celebrated the start of a project to encourage more people to use and care for Birmingham’s Heartlands Canal Ring.Read

Appeal to leave a legacy for the region's wildlife Oct 18 2011

WILDLIFE lovers are being encouraged to leave a legacy that will help protect nature for future generations.Read

Plan and you can be much greener Oct 11 2011

EIGHTY TWO per cent of people in Birmingham would like to be more environmentally friendly – but fail to do the everyday things that can help make a difference.Read

Gardening's magic caught on camera Oct 11 2011

TWO Solihull photographers have won a competition to find images that perfectly capture the magic of gardening.Read

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