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Green Summit 2020: your waste and resources questions answered
Throughout this year’s Green Summit, we asked viewers to post their questions each day for our speakers to answer. We tried to answer as many as we could by the live chat stream, however there were some questions which needed a more thorough answer. This is our response collated from colleagues and partners…
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Green Summit 2020: your natural environment questions answered
Throughout this year’s Green Summit, we asked viewers to post their questions each day for our speakers to answer. We tried to answer as many as we could by the live chat stream, however there were some questions which needed a more thorough answer. This is our response collated from colleagues and partners…
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How Is Natural Course Improving Greater Manchester’s Waterways?
Find out what the Natural Course project has been doing to help clean up Greater Manchester’s rivers and canals.
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University of Salford Welcomes IGNITION Living Lab
The IGNITION project’s innovative Living Lab has unveiled its first phase over at the University of Salford.
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Plans in development for local energy network to boost green ambitions in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester has begun work on ambitious plans to revolutionise energy networks across the city-region, supporting a lower carbon future and our goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2038.
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Plastic straws and stirrers ban in force
The UK Government has now put into force the ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds following its delay due to the Coronavirus outbreak
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Greater Manchester Green Summit 2020: The Highlights
Last week we saw the Greater Manchester Green Summit 2020 which took place over four days. This year for the first time ever all our content, including presentations, talking heads, in-depth interviews and live Q&As were online where people could tune in from their homes.
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Why Do We Need Green Walls?
We know that green walls look beautiful, but their performance goes way beyond aesthetics. If urban planners, businesses, and local authorities can capitalise on this opportunity to utilise the vast surface area walls take up in our urban areas we could transform how the built environment functions.
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An Update from the IGNITION Living Lab
The University of Salford is proud to announce that Phase 1 of the IGNITION project Living Lab has started construction.
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Measuring Greater Manchester’s Green and Blue Spaces: Creating an Urban Green Infrastructure Baseline
Jeremy Carter, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, reveals how developing a new understanding of Greater Manchester’s existing green and blue space will support the delivery innovative climate change solutions.
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Five councils across Manchester win funding for pioneering renewable energy project
Energy Systems Catapult and five local authorities in Greater Manchester have won funding for a pioneering clean energy project – that will develop 10 renewable schemes across the city – and create a blueprint that can be replicated in other regions across the UK aiming for Net Zero carbon emissions.
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New University-led energy agency to turn Greater Manchester green
A new Energy Innovation Agency (EIA) to be established between three Greater Manchester universities, local government and industry has been announced today with the aim of kick-starting a decade of clean energy innovation to meet the region’s 2038 carbon neutral target.
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