Sustainability initiatives
Initiatives by topicArts, sport and cultureCommunity energyCycling activismFor cycling, although hilly, Sheffield is compact and has few major trunk roads. It is on the Trans-Pennine Trail, a National Cycle Network route running from West to East from Southport in Merseyside to Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire and North to South from Leeds in West Yorkshire to Chesterfield in Derbyshire. There are many cycle routes going along country paths in the woods surrounding the city. [1] Food activismError in widget YouTube: Unable to load template 'wiki:YouTube'
Food Hall, food reclaimed, city centre - Grow Sheffield - Heeley City Farm - Lower Walkley Community Group - Sheffield Organic Growers, cluster of independent organic growers, based on a 12-acre site in Moss Valley on the edge of Sheffield Open spaces61% of Sheffield's entire area is green space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, and an estimated 2 million trees, giving Sheffield the highest ratio of trees to people of any city in Europe. [2] Wikipedia: Sheffield, Greenspace Sustainable transport activismThe Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 29 locks. It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation. [3] Wikipedia: Supertram (Sheffield) |
Events2017 Feb 16 The Platform - ‘Sheffield Re-imagined 2017: A Manifesto for a Better Sheffield 2014 May 24 - 26 Sheffield Food Festival News and comment2016 Sheffield is on a quest to be the fairest city of them all – here's how it's doing, May 9 [4] Death of the high street? Rise of the DIY grassroots community venue... February 6 [5] 2015 Sheffield: The beauty of small in a region getting bigger, December 10 [6] University of Sheffield Commits to Divest £39m From Fossil Fuels, November 30 [7] 2014 Foundations for a fairer city, September 30 [8] Hundreds Get On Their Bikes to Demand #Space4Cycling in Sheffield, May 20 [9] Interwiki linksWikipedia: Sheffield External links
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