Climate Change Festival blog

Read our round-ups from Birmingham with the highlights of the nine-day festival. You can join the discussion at any time.

Festival finale looks to the future

The final day of the climate change festival, which has run for a week in Birmingham, captured its essence.....read more

Schools go green for the day

Thursday at the festival was world environment day and - for 30,000 pupils across Birmingham and three other English cities - the UK’s first-ever green day for schools.....read more

Putting a positive glow on climate change

Chris Williams from Birmingham Friends of the Earth gives his thoughts on the climate change festival....read more

The biggest hole ever dug in Birmingham

Ken Shuttleworth, designer of London's Gherkin and Birmingham's The Cube, leads a guided tour of Birmingham while sharing his thoughts about the city....read more

Break the mould

Sustainable Development Commission chair Jonathon Porritt argues that at last we have a chance to bring our cities alive again through a very-low-carbon make-over. To transform them into places where people love to live....read more

Monday and Tuesday

Walks and talks, the Rotunda, Glenn Howells, University of Birmingham, green roofs, the CUBE, Make Architects...read more

Opening weekend

Free-running launch, the pylon centrepiece, plasticine at Claystation, photgraphic exhibition, 14 new benches for Birmingham, March of the Penguins....read more