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Homestead Park Festival: Here is Hope

Saturday, July 5, 2025 - 10:00 to Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 18:00

Homestead Park Festival invites the people of York to come together for a FREE weekend of celebration and reconnection with nature, creativity, and community. Set in the historic Homestead Park, the festival will take place over the first weekend of July, bringing artists, musicians, and changemakers to the park to inspire, create, and seed the start of a new way forwards for JRFs work in York. 

Green Business Forum: Technology and Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 16:00 to 19:00

The Green Business Forum is a series of events guiding York’s businesses towards Net Zero. Working group members who run or work with businesses and want to know more about AI’s environmental impact and possible innovative ways of using technology for good may find this session of interest.

York and North Yorkshire Carbon Negative Conference

Friday, June 13, 2025 - 09:00 to 16:00

Join York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority in leading the charge for a sustainable future at their Carbon Negative Conference this June.

Share the room with like-minded policymakers and industry leaders, hear from brilliant speakers such as the influential Baroness Brown of Cambridge, and get the very latest on their Routemap to Carbon Negative Refresh. The conference will be at The Milner York, 13 June, 9:00 – 16:00.

York's Changing Waterscapes

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 10:00 to 16:00

How can people's enjoyment of the waterscapes of York be enhanced? How can flooding and other aquatic issues be better understood and communicated?

Come along and tell the team from the York Waterscapes project at this interactive event examining the past, present and future of water in the city.

Please meet outside the Reading Café.

This event is hosted by the York Waterscapes Working Group (York Climate Commission).

A New Kind of Wilderness + Recorded Q&A

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 17:45 to 20:45

A New Kind of Wilderness is a new award-winning documentary distributed by MetFilm Distribution. The film follows Maria and Nik, who, together with their four children, have created a self-sufficient, deeply connected life on a small farm in the Norwegian forest.

Green Screen: '#ClimateScam?' + Live Panel

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 18:30

#ClimateScam? (12A, 41 mins) Film synopsis

With the news full of increasingly devastating climate-related disasters, why is it that so many people - including large numbers of young people - believe the climate crisis is all just a hoax? 

York Climate Commission: Annual Celebration Event

Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 09:30 to 13:30

Join us to celebrate the achievements of York Climate Commission through 2024

Last January, the York Climate Commission (YCC) re-launched; opening its arms to organisations and partners across the city to work collaboratively, help cut greenhouse gas emissions and enhance York’s environment to meet the challenges ahead. We held a fantastic event at the Merchant Adventurers' Hall, where many working groups formed, and all left with an enthusiastic spring in their step.

What has happened since then?