Platform

Pulling together for a green and blue city

In Green & blue spaces, Nature and Society on 23.01.2014
Contributed by Mark Hillsdon

Mark Hillsdon reports on the work of Manchester: A Certain Future's Green & Blue Infrastructure Group.

The Alternative? Skills sharing and the Greeniversity

In Culture and Education on 23.01.2014
Contributed by Beth Perry

The Alternative? Beth Perry profiles Greeniversity as a new way of sharing skills for sustainability.

Outlook for 2014 from the Greater Manchester Low Carbon Hub

In Buildings, Energy and Transport on 23.01.2014
Contributed by Mark Atherton

Mark Atherton is the Director of Greater Manchester's Low Carbon Hub and in this piece for Platform outlines their plans, and hopes, for the year ahead.

The Alternative? Incredible Edible Beer Garden, Eagle and Child

In Food and Green & blue spaces on 21.01.2014
Contributed by Elisa Burrai

The Alternative? Elisa Burrai profiles the Incredible Edible Beer Garden at the Eagle and Child pub in Ramsbottom

Opinion: The great divide? Greater Manchester and its students

In Education and Society on 20.01.2014
Contributed by Bianca Manu

Opinion piece from Bianca Manu on the need to bridge a gap between Greater Manchester's students and the local community.

Greater Manchester Hydrogen Partnership

In Economy, Education and Energy on 20.01.2014
Contributed by Mike Hodson

The Alternative? Mike Hodson profiles efforts in Greater Manchester to promote an old technology to address current ecological and economic problems.

The Alternative? 5 Oaken Clough Terrace

In Nature on 17.01.2014
Contributed by Elisa Burrai

The Alternative? Elisa Burrai profiles 5 Oaken Clough Terrace in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Visitors to Manchester Museum's Living Worlds gallery

From natural history to environmental sustainability

In Culture, Education and Nature on 13.01.2014
Contributed by Henry McGhie

Henry McGhie, head of collections and curator of zoology at the Manchester Museum reports on the thinking behind the Museums’ Living Worlds gallery which reinvents natural history for the 21st century.

Riot police in Piccadilly Gardens, August 9 2011, by Phil Long via Flickr

Perspectives essay: Urban faultlines and the dissonant city

In Buildings, Education and Society on 13.01.2014
Contributed by Martin Hall

A perspectives essay from Martin Hall, Vice Chancellor of the University of Salford Manchester, on urban faultines and the 'perpetual dissonance' of the city.

Manchester Garden City - Victoria Street - courtesy of CityCo Manchester

Public Health and the Great Green Uplift of our Urban Ecosystem

In Green & blue spaces and Health on 10.01.2014
Contributed by Steve Merridew

'Would you favour schemes which maintain, improve, enhance and increase green space and waterways in and around Manchester?' Ask most people in Manchester this question and you’ll get an emphatic 'yes', of course.