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Group News - May 2015

on May 11, 2015

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Basecamp
Three group members (David, John and Hayley) are wanting to go to our local groups' conference - Basecamp in Castleton in June. Liddy has said this can be paid for by the group

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Clean Air Campaign

Clean Air Demo
Sheffield City Council's Clean Air Consultation was launched on 1 July and there was an interview and photo in the Sheffield Star. See the article here.

Picture Credit: Richard Souter

Clean Air Zone Consultation
Individuals can respond and there is also potential for a Sheffield Friends of the Earth local group response as an organisation. The issues for FoE were discussed and Richard is co-ordinating a group response. There will be a meeting to finalise a group response at 7pm on 12 August in the Red Deer.

To have a say see the citizen link here.

Schools
We have delivered further clean air school assemblies. There is also another local organisation based in Howden House running a schools accreditation plan for supporting active travel.

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Buses
South Yorkshire Freedom Riders have been in touch about campaigning for free and improved public transport and we will respond to highlight areas of shared campaigning around transport.

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Climate Change Campaign Update - June 2019

Council meeting
Tomorrow Richard and Beatrice will be meeting with Sheffield Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Streetscene and Climate Emergency, Cllr Lewis Dagnall

Context on the meeting - Lewis requested meeting with Extinction Rebellion and other climate groups. Beatrice is attending the meeting with Richard and will be discussing the Green Commitment for Sheffield which is now 2 years old and see what is progressing. Rachel for the Sheffield Climate Alliance will also be attending. Richard has been speaking with Simon Bowens, FOE rep for the North East about the key messages for the meeting. Group discussed sending out a press relase after the meeting to keep up the pressure.

Cycling Dexter from Cycle Sheffield shared information about their campaigns for a cycle friendly city through enabled infrastructure. They responded to Sheffield’s transport strategy with the view that the climate change section was rather weak as did other charities but from their responses it has…

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