environment

Lights and stuff

Lights and stuff

Pic from BBC NEWS: In Pictures : Brum to lighten up “an experiment ” (a test?) has taken place to see how some bits of town would look with coloured lights at night. This bit is apparently Albert St, Digbeth, and not Martin Mullaney’s new plan to stop anti-social behaviour by Highbury Hall

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Greenies, and meanies

Birmingham Strategic Partnership invite you to their sustainability forum entitled Tackling Climate Change. This will take place on Thursday 22nd February at The Auditorium on Level GO,Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham B4 7XG. This is a chance to be amongst the first to consult on Birmingham’s Draft Strategy and Action Plan for tackling Climate Change. At 4.15pm Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ will be shown. A light buffet at 6pm will be followed at 6.30pm by presentations on the Draft Strategy, and your chance to have your say by voting via electronic keypads. The evening is free of charge, and you may arrive before or after the film. To book your place and for more information please contact Lorraine Cookson at the Sustainability Team on Tel: 0121 303 5449 or email sustainabilityteam@birmingham.gov.uk. So even if you’re not intersted it’s a free film and grub.

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