It is now more than 7 months since Sheffield City Council declared a Climate Emergency. Some progress has been made. The Tyndall Report was commissioned and has shown that the Council need to reduce its emissions by 14% every year to reach the target of zero by 2030. They are working on a Citizens AssemblyContinueContinue reading “Our politicians are failing us but the people are rising up!”
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The Star has broken the readers charter
Our argument is not with Neville Martin, who is entitled to his misinformed view, but with the Sheffield Star for publishing such an outrageous headline. If a reader writes to you claiming measles jabs cause autism, will you make that your headline? If Benson Hedges writes to you saying smoking is good for health, willContinueContinue reading “The Star has broken the readers charter”
We now face an existential threat bigger than Nazi Germany
It was wonderful to see the Lancaster bomber fly over Sheffield. We need constant reminders of the sacrifices that both our armed forces and civilians made to ensure the defeat of the Nazis. But as well as looking back we also need to look to the future.We now face an existential threat bigger than NaziContinueContinue reading “We now face an existential threat bigger than Nazi Germany”
Sheffield should go Carbon Neutral by 2030
Sheffield Star 13th Feb 2019 Dear Editor At the Full Council meeting I presented a petition of over 400 names, collected in less than a week, calling on Sheffield to become carbon neutral by 2030. Climate change is now an emergency. The 2018 State of the Climate report says that the 20 warmest years onContinueContinue reading “Sheffield should go Carbon Neutral by 2030”
