10:10 is an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together we can achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010.

The idea is simple: by signing up, individuals and organisations from multinational companies to schools and hospitals commit to doing their best to cut their emissions by 10% by the end of 2010, precisely the sort of deep, quick cut the scientists say is needed.

While collectively cutting 10% of emissions in the next year or so would represent a significant step on the road to a low carbon Britain, it is for each of us – and for most businesses – a relatively modest challenge.

Find out more and sign up to take action. We have.

Do you want stations at Moseley, Kings Heath, Balsall Heath & Stirchley?

Centro are asking if people want re-opening of a passenger service on the Camp Hill line calling at these stations and going into Moor Street.

Centro is asking which schemes should be prioritised in its West Midlands Rail Development Plan.

If people in the area don't reply, the scheme could be pushed into the future. Non response could be understood as lack of support for it, and plans could be decided that exclude our local stations. Public consultation is open already and ends 11th September. Therefore, everyone who cares about this should respond to them, asking for the scheme to be a high priority and funded as soon as possible.

Make Birmingham a safer, greener place for all of us

Join Birmingham Friends of the Earth Call for a 20 MPH limit on all residential streets

Residential roads should not be grim thoroughfares serving only fast-moving vehicles. We believe that the benefits of a 20 mph speed limit would be felt throughout Birmingham on roads where we reside, shop locally and stroll.

There is strong evidence to support a maximum speed limit of 20 mph for residential roads throughout our City. The Government supports the introduction of 20 mph, and the Conservatives now support 20 mph ‘in all urban areas’.

Our residential roads should allow everyone a range of uses. Our residential roads should be a shared space on which residents, shoppers, pedestrians and cyclists, young and old are not second place to car drivers.

Once people feel safe using our roads they will be more likely to use carbon neutral forms of transport: cycling and walking. Parents on the school run will be able to walk their children to school without fearing for their safety on the roads.

So please sign up and make Birmingham a safe, vibrant and people-centred environment.

Birmingham City Council bosses have revealed plans to light up Spaghetti Junction so it can be seen from space. 

The plan would require a design which lights up the interchange's columns and flyovers without dazzling motorists or keeping local residents awake at night.

Clive Dutton, director of planning at Birmingham City Council, insisted it would bring huge benefits.  'We're going to illuminate Spaghetti Junction - you'll be able to see it from space!  'It is an extraordinary structure, one that is known around the country, but we feel as though it can have a massive impact around the world.  We want to get Birmingham on the map and this scheme will be potentially lighting up the whole city.'

We are deeply concerned at Councillor Summerfield’s proposals to light up the 400 columns in Spaghetti Junction on the following grounds:

 CO2 emissions to run (and make): Climate change is the biggest problem facing the world today. Lighting up these 400 columns would produce about four times as much CO2 as Birmingham’s Environmental Partnership saved across the city in all of its projects in 2008.

 Cost to run and cost to make.  Councillor Summerfield suggests the Lottery Fund might help.  We question if this would be the right use of any funds, much less those of the Lottery directed at “good causes”.

Light pollution. There are 1,000,000 people in Birmingham who might like to be able to see the stars which would be blotted out by this massive lighting scheme.   How many people are there on the moon wanting to see Spaghetti Junction?

We want Birmingham to be known for its vibrant culture and its many universities, not for squandering the world’s resources.