Manchester named world’s 14th most sustainable city ‘thanks to grassroots groups’
Manchester has been named the world’s 14th most sustainable city and community groups are the driving force behind it, according to an environmental campaigner.
Do recycle: bottles and cans… don’t recycle: wedding rings! Recyclers save husband ‘a lot of earache’
Recycling workers saved a married Manchester man from ‘a lot of earache’ when they helped reunite him with his wedding ring at the weekend.
Tories didn’t ban fracking as they ‘live in back pockets of frackers’, says Dave Haslam
Anti-fracking protesters including iconic Mancunian DJ Dave Haslam are angry and dissatisfied by the government’s ‘destructive’ partial ban on fracking.
Is green roofing the answer to saving endangered bird species across Manchester?
Urban green roofing projects are offering a lifeline for threatened bird species, with MMU and a Chorlton grocers pioneering the way in the city.
Run, rabbit, run! £2.2m wildlife grant for Manchester to Liverpool nature corridors
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside are the winners of a £2.2million Heritage Lottery Fund grant for their Great Manchester Wetlands: A Carbon Landscape project
Anyone for a game of disc golf? Frisbee aces aim for first North West course at Trafford
A group of Manchester ultimate frisbee veterans are bringing their discs to the golf course – and need your help to make their idea fly.
Electric car surge as Manchester charge point use soars ten-fold in one year
Electric car drivers are being given a boost by Transport for Greater Manchester (TFGM) as record sales of ultra-low emission vehicles surge across England
The future’s bright: Rochdale gives power back to people with solar farm first to turn Manchester green with envy
Renewable energy will soon be shining bright and available to the public as Greater Manchester’s first accessible solar farm will be opened later this month in Rochdale.
A (not) nice pear: How not choosing the apple of your eye and buying ugly fruit could solve food waste crisis
French supermarket’s scheme to promote ugly fruit and vegetable to cut down food waste is needed in Manchester
No need for pot: Bolton duo offer hemp seeds for Brits to scatter across forests in bid to free the weed
A Bolton business duo are trying to show the world there is more to the hemp seed than its cannabis roots suggest.
Funds to save lungs: Clean air group plead for donations to sustain tests into ‘unsafe’ M60 toxic gas levels
BCAG have already started a programme to monitor the air pollution in the Davyhulme and Urmston area, so that they can get a base line before the Davyhulme incinerator becomes operational