Sheffield Environment Weeks run from Saturday 27th April to Wednesday 5th June this year (2024). Sheffield can be proud of the hundreds of activities that make up Sheffield Environment Weeks, which has run for many years. They range from talks on a range of subjects, to projects like urban agriculture and wildlife conservation. Volunteers do the hard work all year…

99% of the global population breathes air with high-level pollutants, including Sheffield with 250-500 deaths per year, largely in lower-income neighbourhoods and due to traffic-related pollution. Three scientists join Graham Turnbull, Founder of Clean Air Sheffield, to discuss the Sheffield Clean Air Zone, and explore the impacts, effectiveness and possible alternatives to the system. Part of the 2024 Festival of…

Blurring the Edges is a look at the research on social frontiers through visual art and augmented reality. Social frontiers arise when there are sharp differences in the community groups of neighbouring communities. The exhibition is by Bulgarian-born, Sheffield-based Lora Krasteva, and Rotherham-based Uzma Rani. It includes a community-made soundscape, and artwork which blends national flowers of Bulgaria, Pakistan and…

The monthly meeting of Principle 5, Yorkshire Co-operative Resource Centre. This is a regional group within the co-operative movement, based in Sheffield, with a co-operative lending library for individuals and co-ops. As a co-operative, Principle 5 is member-run and owned (not “funded”), by over a hundred individual members and member co-operatives. A range of publications are available to members and…