ELECTRIC CARGO BIKES are helping a North Tyneside business to cut down their carbon emissions on local deliveries while saving time and money with support from North Tyneside council. Bike4health, a community interest company based in North Tyne industrial estate, made their first delivery last week using an Urban Arrow […]
A Sunderland firefighter is helping to build a safe haven for hedgehogs at St Mary’s School, Sunderland, as part of an awareness campaign for declining hedgehog populations across the country. Chris Smith, a 36-year-old firefighter from Sunderland is working with ecologists and environmentalists from Friends of Backhouse Park to launch […]
A COMMUNITY food and flower garden is being set up in Heaton by a Newcastle university student, who aims to make use of the concrete streets and empty backyards to grow vegetables and other plants. Jacob, a 31-year-old Ecology and Conservation student at Newcastle University, estimates that there is around […]
Zilch Weigh House opened its door to the public for the first time on April 12 this year. Founders, Andrew and Claire Quinn, used lockdown to develop and launch their sustainable living store, with the aim of leading by example for their young children, as well as providing their local […]
BY PLANTING RAISED beds with flowers and vegetables in car parks, and sowing wildflowers on unused council land, local businesses and allotment owners across the North East are joining the fight against climate change during Earth Month. Earth Month takes place in April every year to raise awareness of climate […]
SUNDERLAND City Council’s approval of the first phase of sustainable smart homes at the Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland have been congratulated. The masterplan of Riverside Sunderland eventually aims to house 2,500 residents. EEXECUTIVE manager of Capability North East, an organisation specialising in sustainability in the region, Claire Thompson, said: […]
ONLY one out of six cars used by UK councils are electric, despite most of them have declared a climate emergency, an SR News investigation has found. This represents 1,161 out of 5,899 total cars. Over 40 per cent of councils don’t have electric vehicles (EVs) and only 0.6 per […]
DEVASTATED allotment holders in Newcastle are “shocked” and “heartbroken” after vandals broke into sheds and smashed greenhouses. Many of the members of Greenwater Pool Allotments group in Jesmond Vale have carefully tended to their plots for many years, but this recent act of vandalism is the worst they have seen. […]
Sunderland City Council announced in February that 2,000 more trees are to be planted across the city, including alder, aspen and oak trees. Meanwhile, Newcastle City Council is working in partnership with the National Trust and Urban Green Newcastle to plant blossom trees. Popular in Japan, the National Trust aims […]
A Sunderland specialist believes that the area where you live “can predict many health outcomes”, as the city is ranked among the least healthy places in England. A TOP from The Sunday Times, based on The Office for National Statistics and England’s health index, analysing people’s level of health, physical […]