Green & blue spaces

GM Mayor Andy Burnham plants Sphagnum moss

GM Mayor Andy Burnham visits Moorland Partnership

In Green & blue spaces, Health and Nature on 09.01.2020
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham today lent a hand to a partnership restoring the peat bogs above Oldham.

Ageing Well: New Year, New You

In Green & blue spaces, Living and Society on 16.12.2019
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

Christmas might only just be on the horizon, but it’s not too early to sort out your New Year’s resolutions! Get 2020 off to a green, healthy and age-friendly start with GHIA’s end-of-project event on Thursday 9th January 2020 at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

David Attenborough at Landscape Institute Awards

Landscape Institute Awards Celebrates Natural Course

In Economy, Green & blue spaces, Nature and Society on 16.12.2019
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

This year’s Landscape Institute award ceremony was a ground-breaking afternoon for Natural Course.

Natural Course was the proud winner of the Transforming through Management and Science award, with particular focus on the project’s innovative new mapping tool.

IGNITION – steering the way to a greener Greater Manchester

In Buildings, Economy, Green & blue spaces, Health and Nature on 29.11.2019
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

What has the Greater Manchester IGNITION project achieved for the environment so far?

The Perfect Ten – Bird species selected to represent each of Greater Manchester’s ten boroughs

In Green & blue spaces and Nature on 27.11.2019
Contributed by Tina Bugliosi

The Greater Manchester Birding City Region project has selected a bird to represent each of the ten boroughs.

The Future of Your Green Spaces

In Green & blue spaces, Health and Nature on 25.11.2019
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

Alexandra Park was a hive of activity last week as key stakeholders met to discuss innovative new ways to fund and deliver parks and green spaces in Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester Natural Capital Group’s Annual Conference

Join us: Delivering a Greener Greater Manchester

In Buildings, Economy and Green & blue spaces on 22.11.2019
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

Get your exclusive ticket to the Greater Manchester Natural Capital Group’s Annual Conference – coming to Manchester in February 2020.

Green Supplier Event to Inspire Greater Manchester

In Buildings, Economy, Green & blue spaces and Housing on 20.11.2019
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

With green infrastructure on the rise across Greater Manchester, the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) is holding a special event for green suppliers across the region.

Natural Course on Track for Landscape Institute Award 2019

In Economy and Green & blue spaces on 14.11.2019
Contributed by Jennifer Lane

Greater Manchester’s innovative Natural Course project has been shortlisted for the Landscape Institute Awards 2019.

The project called ‘Charting a Natural Course: An Ecosystem Services Opportunities Map and Natural Capital Account for the River Irwell’ has come out on top of 185 entries and is now a finalist in the award’s Transforming through Management and Science category.

Greater Manchester’s Pilot Scheme to Restore Vital Peatland

In Green & blue spaces and Nature on 11.11.2019
Contributed by Tina Bugliosi

A new pathfinding peatland restoration pilot has been launched in Greater Manchester. The programme explains how local stakeholders can work together to improve the condition of English peatlands to help wildlife, people and the planet – now and into the future.

Greater Manchester Green City Region. Creating a greener, greater city region differently