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Notts Goes Green: the Architectural Designers Transforming Our Built Environment

We take a look at Leonard Design and find an ambitious Notts-based global architecture firm looking to reduce their emissions and work towards net zero…

Em Green Talks This Fabric World - The Animation Fighting Overconsumption

During their time at NTU, Em Green created This Fabric World, an animation created to criticise the fast fashion industry. After winning the Young Creative Awards with the same animation, Em has gone on to thrive in the creative industry, landing a job at Tinmouse Animation Studios. We catch up for a chat about animation style, childhood inspirations, and helping others...

Notts Goes Green: Challenges and Opportunities For Heritage Buildings

Nottingham City Council's Carbon Neutral 2028 plan has spurred many local businesses toward going eco-friendly, but what does that mean for our heritage buildings such as those in the historic Lace Market? Becky Valentine, Co-Owner and sustainability lead at property management company Spenbeck takes a deep dive into the issues

New Pop-up Project Offers Space for Creative Ways to Tackle Climate Change

The Green Light in the City project aims to offer a space for learning, fun, and discussion around environmental issues... 

We Join Blue Barrel Cider for a Day of Scrumping In St Ann’s and a Chat About the Importance of Keeping Things Green

Made with fruit from mostly forgotten orchards, Blue Barrel Cider might be one of the most eco-friendly drinks on the market. Our Adam Pickering joins Leo Jordan, one of the creators of the beverage, for a day of scrumping out in St Ann’s and a chat about the importance of keeping things green…

Film Review: The Green Knight

Dev Patel comes across giants, talking trees and an adorable fox in David Lowery's latest release...

Nusic New Music Podcast #255 with Rob Green, Tori Sheard, Snowy and more...

This week’s New Music Podcast features new music inspired by coffee, new music inspired by fighting bears, plus the MC who has just made history.

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

10 Years Later: Green Lantern

It's remembered as being so bad that it's become meme material. But is there anything to enjoy about Green Lantern? We take a look 10 years on... 

Green Hustle Gears Up For Nottingham's First Post-Lockdown Festival

After a successful virtual event last year, Green Hustle returns for an in-person festival in June...

Nottingham Is Getting its Own Tiny Forest Thanks to Green Hustle

The city's first tiny forest will be planted on Woodthorpe Grange Park... 

How the New Art Exchange Became a Leading International Arts Space

Skinder Hundal has been Director at New Art Exchange (NAE) since 2008, from the moment their iconic black box building in Hyson Green first opened its doors. Now, as he takes up a new position as Director of Arts, British Council, Skinder reflects on NAE’s journey from a small community-led organisation to a leading international arts space, and the important role it has played in championing art from diverse culture.

Green Party and Lib Dems Launch Broadmarsh Proposal

The Green Party and the Liberal Democrats in Nottingham have joined forces with an environmentally-frienly plan to replace the old Broadmarsh shopping centre.

Season's Greenings: How to Have a Sustainable Christmas This Year

This December, Carbon Neutral Nottingham are sharing green-fingered tips with the help of local businesses...

Hockley Hustle Presents Green Hustle: The Digital Festival Celebrating All Things Sustainability

A highlight in our calendar comes every October when, on the last weekend of the month, the streets of Hockley are taken over by musicians, poets, street performers, food vendors and punters for the annual Hockley Hustle festival. For obvious reasons, it won’t be returning for its fourteenth year, but that doesn’t mean Team HH are taking a (probably well-deserved) break. Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, they’ll be treating the people of Nottingham to a few different projects. The first of those is Green Hustle, a digital festival celebrating, promoting and exploring all things green in our city… 

Should the Broadmarsh Site Be Turned Into a Green Space?

After shopping centre giant intu collapsed into administration, causing yet another Broadmarsh development plan to fall by the wayside, Ewan Cameron decided it was time for something different. Creating an online petition calling for the area to be turned into a communal green space, his campaign has over ten thousand signatures at the time of printing. Here’s exactly why he thinks the plan to turn Broadmarsh green is essential for Nottingham...

Nottingham Green Festival is Back For Its 27th Year

For nearly three decades, hoards of like-minded, green-thumbed folk flock to the Arboretum on a September Sunday for the Nottingham Green Festival, a community-led event where the whole family can educate themselves on being environmentally friendly. Our new Stage Editor, Rebecca Buck, has fond memories of the fest, dating back to her childhood...

Snap Notts: The Windmill

This month's collaboration takes inspiration from Green's Windmill...

Fourteen Year Old Photographer Indy Kiemel-Greene: "The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, and it's only going to get worse."

It’s not just adults that are raising more awareness about the environment - more and more young people are getting closer to nature too. Indy Kiemel-Greene is just fourteen, and is already a keen wildlife volunteer and photographer. We spoke to him about his work, attending the Time for Now lobby, and how people can help wildlife to thrive...

Rob Green: "I will always love gigging in Nottingham – audiences here are so open."

2019 is shaping up to be Rob Green’s biggest year yet...

Community Group Friends of the Forest Have Been Protecting Notts' Green Spaces for Over Twenty Years

For the last twenty years, Friends of the Forest – a community group founded and led by June Perry – has been opposing the Forest Recreation Ground from being built on, defending our right to use the area to enjoy a picnic on a Saturday afternoon, or a kickaround on a Wednesday evening. In other words, for public recreation...

Nusic Podcast #203 with Bru-C, Molly Ralph, Emily Makis, Tilly Greentree and More...

Singer-Songwriter Tilly Greentree on Noise from the Next Generation and the Nottingham Music Scene

The Notts singer-songwriter is this year’s Audience Award winner from Nottingham Music Hub's Noise from the Next Generation. She sits down with Fashion Editor, Anna Murphy, to talk sound, musical style and being sixteen. 

Snap Notts: Hyson Green

The History of Robin Hood and His Links to The Green Man

He’s plastered on movie posters, book covers, bank logos and the sides of buses, but there is a side to Robin Hood that you may not be aware of. Today, Literature Editor LP Mills takes a deep dive into the strange and ancient history of Nottingham’s best-loved outlaw, Robin Hood...

Explore Vertical Gardening at the Festival of Science and Curiosity's Urban Greening Conference

This month sees the Festival of Science and Curiosity come to town. As part of the events, the Urban Greening Conference offers attendees the chance to find out about vertical gardening, resource efficiency and sustainable eating. We sat down with event organiser Penney Poyzer to find out about the conference...