Birmingham City University “greening” it up!

Something “green” is stirring in the air at BCU. The university is developing new initiatives to become an eco-friendly university and to educate students about the environment. The university has set up a new campaign entitled “grrreen“. It is based on the three ‘R’s reduce, reuse and recycle. BCU has appointed various members of staff [...]

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Reading Festival 2008

Well…better late than never! I was lucky enough to bag myself a ticket to Reading Festival this year and I had an amazing time. But I remembered not to take off my green hat and found out about what Reading was doing this year to become more environmentally friendly. Well most of their information on [...]

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People and Planet Green League 2008

The Green League 2008 is published tomorrow in the Times Higher Education Supplement.  The Green League is a ranking of how environmentally friendly British Universities are.  The results are based on 9 environmental criteria such as Co2 Emissions and the percentage of waste recycled for each institution. This is the second year the table has [...]

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CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

I recently spoke to Emily Doyle from The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) about the environmental photographer of the year awards which is part of CIWEM’s Arts and Environment intiative “putting creativity at the heart of environmental policy and action”.
The winners of the 2007 competition are going to be on display at [...]

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Birmingham City SU petitions for recycling facilities

Birmingham City University Student Union has started a petition to lobby the university for more recycling facilities around the campuses. You can sign the petition here and also check out the Facebook group. I spoke to representations and campaigns officer Alex Jewitt a while ago about the union’s stance on green issues and he spoke [...]

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Interview with Glastonbury Festival

I recently spoke to Crispin Aubrey from the Glastonbury Festival about how the festival is trying to develop greener business practices and encourage festival goers to be more environmentally friendly. You can listen to the interview here

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Enviro Cribs Part Three

Enviro Cribs Part Three

The Final Part.

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Enviro Cribs Part Two

Enviro Cribs Part Two

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Enviro Cribs Part One

I’ve set up a YouTube Channel for Environmental News Online here. Check out my new video I did. It’s a tour of my house looking at how I could be more environmentally friendly. Apologies about the T-Shirt it was a spur of the moment thing and I forgot to change my wardrobe. Not scripted much [...]

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Sports stars and education

I don’t know why I never thought of sport as a way of educating people about the environment, but it looks like a great way to reach out to kids. Surfing the net recently, I came across a blog called 6footsix. It’s about the plans for a beach volleyball player called Colleen Smith to educate [...]

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