WILDLIFE, nature and environmental experts from across South Yorkshire offer their thoughts on everything from the best local walks to global issues of climate change in The Star's Green Scene.
Our online section dedicated to green news is bursting with ideas and, this month, includes an offer to take a stroll with the Sheffield Ramblers.
Log on to their column Stepping Out to get all the details of their short walk around the Hathersage
area, which takes place on Sunday August 31.
The group will leave the village and head towards North Lees Hall, said to be Charlotte Bronte's inspiration for Thornbridge Hall in her novel Jane Eyre, and then up onto Stanage Edge.
Organisers describe being greeted by some fine and far-reaching views before heading on to the next landmark of Upper Burbage Bridge, then on to Higger Tor which should be resplendent in flowering heather.
Also in Green Scene:
- Each month C Robb Worthington of the South Yorkshire Energy Centre looks at how individuals can make a difference, in his column A Sustainable Life. He believes that, without an accurate understanding of the situation this generation faces, it is very difficult to understand why we should take any action at all to address climate change.
As well as including the most recent facts and figures in the global warming debate, A Sustainable Life looks at why everyone needs to do their bit.
He says: "The generations that follow face an unknown situation, but it is a situation we will decide.
"We can choose to leave them with a planet with vastly reduced biodiversity, flooded coastal cities, water and food scarcity on a global scale, more resource wars, in short, nothing like the rich comfortable planet we inherited.
"Or we can choose to focus all our efforts to avoid that legacy. This is the situation we face."
- Sheffield Carbon Reduction Action Group's Rick Morgan has tips on saving money and saving the planet at the same time in his column Green Footsteps.
He says things as simple as reading meters at the end of each month can save money as well as helping cut back on the amount used.
"As I have done various things to reduce my use of electricity and gas, I can see the benefit and I have found I am encouraged to do more.
"I think the biggest savings for me have come from topping up my loft insulation to 10 inches and only heating those rooms I am using.
"Altogether I have cut my gas and electricity use by 75 per cent over the last four years. Not only has this saved me money but I feel good because I know it is important to do my bit to prevent runaway climate change."
Rick has set up a new website – www.sheffield.thecarbonaccount.com – for Sheffield people who want to calculate their carbon dioxide emissions.
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