Culture, Leisure, Sport & Tourism

Reducing emissions from heritage buildings

Sunny — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:51:04 +0000

Help to make historically important buildings energy efficient while retaining their character by using this new guide.

‘Low Carbon Heritage Buildings: a guide’ has been produced to help people across Yorkshire and Humber sensitively introduce changes to historically important buildings that improves their environmental performance.

Power Up 2011

Sunny — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:51:39 +0000

Power Up is an inspirational residential weekend for community campaigners. It will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the legal and planning system from other campaigners, particularly important as communities get to grips with what the Localism Bill holds in store for your rights to shape your community.

Power Up will give you:

Friends of the Earth: The Big Green Bike Ride

Sunny — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:14:03 +0000

The ride will start in London on Sunday 6 May 2012. We'll cycle almost 500 miles through breathtaking scenery, arriving in Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, six days later.

The route will take us from the hustle and bustle of London through rolling countryside, around river estuaries and across stunning moorland. We'll visit historic cities and picturesque market towns as we wind our way north.

Know Your Limits - A Guide for Local Leaders

Sunny — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:57:35 +0000

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) recognised the gap in understanding ‘environmental limits’ at a local, practical level and set out to support the UK Government in developing a clearer set of principles for embedding environmental limits in a wide range of land use planning documents and policies.

This document is intended to provide an accessible summary of research to date. It assembles practical guidance to assist local leaders in recognising environmental limits, and in taking steps to help their communities live well, within these limits.

Blue Sky Green Space

Sunny — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:53:14 +0000

This document outlines in the broadest sense the wide range of green spaces – from parks and gardens to city farms, country parks, woodlands and wildlife sites to play areas, allotments to urban plazas – and the range of benefits they bring, whether provided and managed by statutory agencies, local authorities or by community led and managed groups such as community gardens or Friends Of groups.

Job Vacancy: RSPB Area Conservation Manager

Sunny — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:42:24 +0000

RSPB are looking for an experienced manager to lead delivery of our conservation programme in the North East, Yorkshire & the Humber.

Challenges and opportunities in this area are immense; coastal management on the Humber & Tees, marine protected areas, species recovery for black grouse, site protection for a suite of internationally important sites & species, advisory work for farmland birds in lowland areas and significant opportunities for wetland habitat restoration.

National Park schemes to lessen impact of climate change

Sunny — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:56:38 +0000

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) is working hard to help local people to offset the effects of climate change. National Climate Change Week, which starts today (March 21), aims to highlight the positive steps being taken in communities and organisations across Britain to combat the effects of climate change - the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today.

The beautiful landscape of the National Park is also playing a part in offsetting the impact of climate change through its trees, soils and peatland.

The Natural Environment Evidence Base for Yorkshire and Humber

Sunny — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:37:13 +0000

Natural England, Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Government Office and Yorkshire Futures to show the state of the natural environment in Yorkshire and Humber.

It presents mapped data and commentary about where our most valuable natural assets are, and what air, water and landscape quality is like across the region.

Helping Green Drinks Bradford

Sunny — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:56:49 +0000

Bradford Green Drinks is now one year old! We will celebrate at next Green Drinks on March 7thl. If you've come along to any of the monthly socials, you'll agree its been a great success, with laughter, lively discussion, sharing of news, interesting speakers on local intitiatives and generally a shed load of networking.

Natural Connections: the role of green space in connecting people to their local environment

Sunny — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:14:06 +0000

Please note that this event was scheduled to happen on the 1st of December 2011 but it was postponed due to the weather.

At a time of political and economic flux the time is right to think about changes in society and how they influence what people want from greenspace. Is there a need to re-think our objectives and the methods we use to deliver them?

New website for geodiversity and networking in Yorkshire and Humber

Sunny — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:23:47 +0000

Need to know about your local geological site? Want to know where to take your fossil find? Want to visit your nearest museum to find out more about your local environment and the rocks beneath your feet? Thinking of having a saunter along one of many local geological trails or attending events in your area? Then visit www.yhgeodiversity.org.uk to find out what’s going on.