A (not) nice pear: How not choosing the apple of your eye and buying ugly fruit could solve food waste crisis
French supermarket’s scheme to promote ugly fruit and vegetable to cut down food waste is needed in Manchester
No need for pot: Bolton duo offer hemp seeds for Brits to scatter across forests in bid to free the weed
A Bolton business duo are trying to show the world there is more to the hemp seed than its cannabis roots suggest.
Funds to save lungs: Clean air group plead for donations to sustain tests into ‘unsafe’ M60 toxic gas levels
BCAG have already started a programme to monitor the air pollution in the Davyhulme and Urmston area, so that they can get a base line before the Davyhulme incinerator becomes operational
Barking up the right tree: Manchester eco group’s bid to make most of home-grown biofuel from Mother Nature
TreeStation provides woodfuel to Greater Manchester homes and businesses.
Levenshulme campaign for ‘urban wildflower meadows’ is bees’ knees for insects stung by flower shortage
Manchester’s honey-loving motif the humble bee is in need of the public’s help to stop their dramatic decline in population – and urban wildflowers meadows are seen as the key.
Bare if you dare: Cyclists gear up for stark journey as World NAKED Bike Ride Day comes to Manchester
North West’s leg of World Naked Bike Ride Day, which in previous years has seen up to 100 cyclists ride in the buff, takes place on Friday, June 6
A new leaf: Strip of 80 trees from Piccadilly through Northern Quarter will ‘transform’ Manchester
A New Leaf MCR held their first fundraising exhibition last night in order to raise funds to plant more trees across Manchester city centre
Green, mean planting machine: Eco group help polluted Manchester turn over a new leaf
A Manchester environmental group are hitting back against smog after the city was branded the third-worst in England for air pollution – and their plans are blossoming.
Is nature cruel? Manchester taxidermy exhibition explores conflict and co-operation in the animal world
A troupe of animals including wolves, hares and birds have descended on Manchester Museum to challenge the notion that ‘nature is cruel’.
Earth Hour 2014: Bolton art student’s poster wins nationwide competition to ‘let the stars light the night’
Earth Hour, an international grassroots movement to switch off non-essential lights for one hour, takes place March 29
Poisonous gas levels around Trafford are ‘shocking’ and breach EEC legal limits, claim pollution protest group
Trafford’s Breath Clean Air group began testing the levels of NO2 three months ago