Climate Caravan Comes to Birmingham

by | Apr 20, 2012 | Energy And Climate Change

On Tuesday May 15th, our friends at the Campaign Against Climate Change are bringing their caravan to Birmingham to talk about how we can create a million jobs while dealing with climate change. The meeting is taking place at 7.00pm in Committee Rooms 3 and 4 in the...

Free Bee-Friendly Seed Packs

by | Apr 19, 2012 | Biodiversity

For our new Bee Cause campaign, Friends of the Earth have sent us some packets of British Wildflower seeds to give away for free, as well as some badges to help promote the campaign. Friends of the Earth have given away 10 000 packets of these in just one day after...

This is why we do Buy Nothing Day

by | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog

When counting our carbon emissions, groups like ours have long argued that we should also look at what is embedded in everything we buy. This would mean that a lot of the emissions of China and India would not just be seen as their problem, but ours, too. Now DEFRA...

Our response to the Digbeth LDO consultation

by | Apr 18, 2012 | Planning

The Local Development Order (LDO) for Digbeth was proposed as part of the city centre Enterprise Zone and means that planning restrictions are eased in order to “stimulate economic activity” in the area. We are concerned about the impact of this LDO in its...