An ambitious vision to create a National Park in the West Midlands which could create hundreds of miles of green space, conservation areas and new cycle routes has been unveiled.
The plans have been drawn up by Kathryn Moore, Professor of landscape architecture at Birmingham City University, and would make the region home to the UK’s 16th official National Park.
How to…turn cocoa beans into electricity for off-grid Ghanaian farmers
UK researchers have developed a new green technology to generate electricity from discarded cocoa pod husks, which they hope will benefit Ghanaian farming communities with little or no access to grid power.