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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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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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Calling all schools and education establishments: Let’s Go Zero Climate Action Countdown
Let’s Go Zero, a national campaign helping schools get to net zero, is launching an exciting climate action event from 7th June to 5th July called the Climate Action Countdown. The campaign includes free webinars and a calendar of 29 daily challenges linked to sustainability helping to focus and kick-start action.
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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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EVENT: Green Transformation Conference 2024
Pro-Manchester’s Green Transformation Conference will welcome a wide range of companies developing innovative new technologies to lower emissions, reduce our carbon footprint and improve our environment.
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