Stop Junk Mail…

by | Oct 24, 2007 | Blog

The Mailing Preference Service blocks junk mail in the UK. It really works as companies are legally required to stop bothering you if you’re on the list.Registration took me 1 minute 36 seconds and lasts for 5 years!Just go...

Green Roofs: a primer

by | Oct 22, 2007 | Planning

Green Roofs  What are they and why are we keen to see more in Birmingham?  Read a short but comprehensive primer written by one of Birmingham Friends of the Earth's Planning Campaigners… Energy Efficiency    Many cities of the...

Plastic Fantastic

by | Oct 16, 2007 | Blog

In these days when any post is rare, it may seem boastful to say that a leaflet dropped through my door that filled me with excitement. No, it wasn’t a new menu for Papa Johns (my goodness they’re offering a free bottle of pop with every order over a tenner – our luck...

Poem: View from the canalside

by | Oct 16, 2007 | Blog

ARTERIALthere’s hardly a single place i knowand it fills my heart with grief and woefor i can’t find brummagemwilliam dobbs, 1825we drop down out of sightdown to the water’s edgewhere the cold black inpenetrable water sitssnake oil patterns swirling...