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The Altrincham Living Wall – Progressive, Science-led Green Infrastructure
Reducing the heat demand from existing commercial and public buildings and increasing engagement with our natural environment are just two Five Year Environment Plan priorities addressed by introducing nature based solutions such as living walls to buildings, inside and out. Living walls also provide essential climate adaptation measures, helping to keep the buildings warm and cool, increasing biodiversity, acoustic dampening and improved psychological wellbeing.
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Creating a circular economy solution to road sweeper waste
Demonstrating how innovative thinking can help address environment concerns as well as making good business-sense, UBU, a Manchester-based road sweeping provider, has invested in a wet waste treatment plant which separates waste into recoverable streams like sand, aggregates, and ‘cake’ residues. Read more…
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Grow-a-loaf Guidebook Giveaway
Thanks to Bake Your Lawn’s crowdfunders, the Real Bread Campaign has very limited copies of the Grow-a-loaf guidebook to donate to schools, charities, CICs and other community not-for-profits.
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Hundreds of Oldham homes given green makeovers
Around 200 homes across Oldham have been given major green makeovers to slash bills and make them more energy efficient as part of a trailblazing multi-million-pound retrofit programme to transform 3,800 properties across Greater Manchester.
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Project blog: understanding the state of nature in Greater Manchester
Learn all about Greater Manchester’s first State of Nature Report in our regular project team blog.
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Greater Manchester School Eco Refill Shops – Opening time, the launches begin!
In the second blog in our series covering the progress of the ten School Eco Refill Shops, we can happily report that the schools have undergone their enterprise training and are now beginning to launch and open for their school communities…
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Feel The Benefit of Making Your Home Better
Fresh after the launch of GMCA’s ‘Feel The Benefit’ campaign, Hellena Mason-Smith, Community Engagement Assistant from Your Home Better, takes a look at you can reduce your home’s carbon emissions when making home improvements through this programme…
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Solar array at Wellington School completed!
Following a community share offer in summer 2023, local social enterprise Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR) has installed the largest community-owned solar array in Greater Manchester at Wellington School in Timperley.
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Local Nature Champions: Claire Biggs, Director and Project Manager at SNUG
In our next Local Nature Champions interview, we speak to Claire Biggs, Director and Project Manager at Sustainable Northmoor Urban Greening (SNUG).
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Project blog: setting out our shared Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Find out more about the development of Greater Manchester’s first Local Nature Recovery Strategy in our regular project team blog.
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Local Nature Champions: Susan Faulkner, Farmer at Woodside Farm
In our next Local Nature Champions interview, we speak to Susan Faulkner, Farmer at Woodside Farm.
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Delivering home energy improvements to GM residents through ECO4 Flex
Continuing our series of guest blogs from partners, Next Energy Solutions, a market-leading and award-winning specialist in improving the energy efficiency of homes, tells us how they are delivering the Energy Company Obligation Flexible Eligibility Scheme (ECO4 Flex) across Bolton, Salford and Wigan…
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