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Manchester Steps Up For Zero Carbon: city partnership launches campaign to inspire climate action
A citywide campaign highlighting positive actions being taken in Manchester to tackle climate change and how residents and businesses can get involved has just launched
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Running Out of Time Climate Relay: June 6th – July 4th 2024
Join thousands of runners, walkers, wheelers and cyclists passing the Relay baton on its epic journey from Ben Nevis to Big Ben. Help deliver the message in the baton calling for action to cut emissions, restore nature, and support those hardest hit by climate change.
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Local Sustainability Champion: Paul Watson, Zero Waste Hero
In the latest Local Sustainability Champions blog, we have interviewed one of our very own colleagues, Paul Watson from Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue, on how he only empties his general waste wheely-bin once a year! Here’s how he does it with some easy-win tips for reducing your household waste…
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Train the Green Trainer with Daikin UK
Daikin UK is working in partnership with colleges and training providers across Greater Manchester to help train the next generation of green heating installers as the nation shifts away from fossil fuel boilers.
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Your Home Better: Retrofitting for the community
In this guest interview, we learn all about Your Home Better and its founder, Charlie Baker.
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Power Up Your Community Energy Project with funding from Electricity North West
Electricity North West is calling for applications to its Powering Our Communities fund, now in its seventh year. With a total of £100,000 available, this initiative grants funding to groups and organisations looking to develop community energy projects across the North West region.
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Project blog: mapping Greater Manchester’s nature recovery network
Find out how we are mapping Greater Manchester’s nature recovery network in our regular project team blog.
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R4GM Success Story: Platt Fields Bike Hub
From community groups and charities to businesses and schools, we believe that everyone has a role to play in helping Greater Manchester become carbon neutral by 2038. We are shining a spotlight on the passionate individuals who are already leading the way – our Sustainability Champions. We caught up with Zym, long-term volunteer at the Platt Fields Bike Hub to find out how the R4GM Community Fund has made a difference to their project…
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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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Healthy Summer Toolkit: activities for a healthy planet, body & mind
A healthy planet is key to healthy people, and a free new resource from Eco Schools is helping students understand this connection. The Healthy Summer Toolkit, developed in partnership with the Bupa Foundation, offers eight engaging activities that promote student wellbeing, environmental action, and a connection with the natural world.
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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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