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Top award for city energy saver plan

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:13:00 GMT

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

New trees set to spruce up borough

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:11:00 GMT

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

Go Green: Christmas call to rehome hens

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:54:00 GMT

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

Go Green: School holds food market

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:52:00 GMT

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.

More wood burning stoves sold by Shropshire firm

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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

Go Green: Council's boost for eco homes

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:37:00 GMT

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

Go Green: Waste recycling plant is almost completed

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:35:00 GMT

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

Go Green: Canal plain sailing to rescue dormice

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:33:00 GMT

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.

Go Green: Success for Birmingham energy project

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:17:00 GMT

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

Go Green: New inhaler recycling scheme is rolled out

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:11:00 GMT

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

Go Green: School bus had its chips

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:29:00 GMT

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

Go Green: Countdown to new city hotel

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:27:00 GMT

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

Fears for the UK's fuel-poor

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:10:00 GMT

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

Large butterfly set to hatch at Midland farm

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:06:00 GMT

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

Eco-schools given praise

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:02:00 GMT

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

MP helps to clean up park

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:01:00 GMT

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

Mela launches canal project

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:03:00 GMT

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.

Appeal to leave a legacy for the region's wildlife

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:00:00 GMT

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

Plan and you can be much greener

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:41:00 GMT

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.

Gardening's magic caught on camera

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:39:00 GMT

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