It’s national wildflower meadow day! We’ve been looking at some wildflower meadows that used to be extremely common before intensification of agriculture. Wildflower meadows are now rare, but we can bring them back, along with the insects and other wildlife that are associated with them. Wildflower meadows need a little bit more love than lawns, […]

Yesterday, Sheffield City Council discussed the report presented by the Tyndall Centre on its approach to reaching its self-declared target for becoming Carbon neutral by 2030. It is full of facts and statements on the climate science but little in the way on detail on how the Council should achieve the goal, indeed the report […]

It has been announced that the next meeting of Sheffield City Council on July 3rd will be a ‘Scrutiny Council’ on the environment and its declaration of a Climate Emergency.   Council bosses have now said that the meeting will be a PowerPoint presentation and a report from the Tyndale Centre, not from the City Council […]

Following Labour’s announcement that a Citizens Assembly for Sheffield would be set up to help draw up plans to make Sheffield Carbon Neutral by 2030 at yesterday’s (12th June) Full Council meeting.   Lib Dem Shadow Cabinet member for Climate Change Tim Huggan said  ‘The plans drawn up by Labour, without wider consultation must be a […]