2 Nov 2017
Urban Living Birmingham Blog
The Urban Living Birmingham consortium is identifying improvements to urban services by combining top-down urban governance with bottom-up lay and…
General News
2 Nov 2017
Rushlight Awards 2017-18
The Rushlight Awards are open to all types of organisation at any stage of corporate development, including individual inventors, early…
General News
30 Oct 2017
Project Manager – Fit For The Future Network – Job Opportunity
Fit for the Future is a knowledge sharing network, linking up hundreds of people who are tasked with making their…
General News
19 Oct 2017
Your views around decarbonisation of public and higher education sectors
BEIS are interested in evidence, and views, about the action required to deliver an ambitious decarbonisation programme across the public…
General News
19 Oct 2017
Government response to the CCC 2017 progress report
In June 2017 the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) and the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) published the ninth progress report on…
General News
16 Oct 2017
Industrial heat recovery support programme
BEIS in collaboration with the Knowledge Transfer Network, are seeking innovators, academics and industry thought leaders to participate in a…
General News
16 Oct 2017
Four Committees relaunch a joint inquiry on air quality
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Environmental Audit, Health, and Transport Committees have re-launched their joint inquiry into improving air…
General News
12 Oct 2017
Environment Agency’s Project Excellence Awards
If you have you led or been involved in a flood, coastal risk or resilience project that has delivered excellent…
General News
12 Oct 2017
The Clean Growth Strategy
The Clean Growth Strategy is a government published strategy to cut emissions while keeping costs down for consumers, creating good jobs…
General News
9 Oct 2017
2018 Globe Awards Deadline Announced
Submissions for the 2018 Energy Globe Award competition will close on the 21 November 2017. The aim of the awards…
General News
26 Sep 2017
BusinessGreen Technology Awards 2017
There are just under two weeks left for the UK’s top clean technology firms to submit entries for the BusinessGreen…
General News
26 Sep 2017
Coventry and Warwickshire Green Business Award 2017
The SME Coventry and Warwickshire Green Award is set out to recognise the input that SMEs put into both their…
General News
14 Sep 2017
EAUC Emerging Leaders Programme
The EAUC Emerging Leaders programme will be delivered over a ten month period with five delivered content sessions and five…
General News
31 Jul 2017
UKCIP and climate justice workshop report
The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) partnered with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Climate Outreach to pursue the climate…
General News
27 Jul 2017
Mayor welcomes publication of government’s Air Quality Plan
This week, the government published its air quality plan for reducing roadside nitrogen dioxide concentrations. The plan included a £255 million fund for…
General News
13 Jul 2017
The results are in! What are the barriers to a successful electric vehicle adoption?
Intern Liam Knott has undertaken a survey into the barriers to EV adoption as part of his placement at SWM…
General News
13 Jul 2017
New report highlights the potential of the local voluntary and community group sector (VCS) in local climate resilience
The Urban Heat report highlights the distinctive and largely untapped potential of the local voluntary and community group sector (VCS)…
General News
6 Jul 2017
Small Footsteps 2017 summer school taking applications
SWM member Small Footsteps 2017 is now actively recruiting this year’s cohort of 11-14 year olds for its five day…
General News
3 Jul 2017
CCC update on UK climate change progress
The CCC has recently released its second assessment of the National Adaption Programme’s progress in preparing for climate change. In a different…
General News
22 Jun 2017
New JRF report shows link between flood risk and economic growth
According to the report by Paul Sayers for Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF); flood risk could undermine economic growth in struggling…
General News
19 May 2017
‘Birmingham: A biophilic city’ film
A really interesting film has been produced by Birmingham City University called ‘Biophilic Birmingham’ – how green spaces, nature and…
General News
16 Feb 2017
SWM Green Leaders – The shortlist
The time has come to reveal the Green Leaders of the West Midlands! At tomorrow’s UKBCSD Mobility 2025 event in Birmingham…
SWM News
9 Feb 2017
BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2017
To mark the 10th anniversary of BusinessGreen, they are celebrating the immense progress the UK’s green business community has made…
General News
30 Jan 2017
Our comment: Water competition – an opportunity for efficiency.
The facts From April 2017 businesses and other non-household organisations in England will be able to choose the company that…
SWM News