Sustrans to use new funds to create online mapping facility providing personalised neighbourhood sustainable travel mapping
The Greener Living Fund, launched by government to showcase eight communities across England live more sustainably, reduce their carbon footprint and protect natural resources, has awarded £6m of funding to eight initial eight projects across England.
One of the winners was sustainable transport charity Sustrans, which was awarded more than £1.1m. The funds will be used to develop and nationally promote an online mapping facility – ‘iTravelSmart’ – providing personalised neighbourhood sustainable travel mapping.
The detailed mapping will show local amenities (such as shops, doctors’ surgeries, places of worship, post offices, bus stops) as well as sites of interest (such as parks, public artwork, nature reserves, places of heritage); and how to get to them on foot, by bike or by public transport.
People will be able to plan the best route e.g. from home to school, work to the shop etc; save it and share it with family, friends and colleagues. We will direct people to ‘iTravelSmart’ through Sustrans projects, marketing activities and a wide range of partner organisations.
The funds will also develop TravelSmart’s capacity to reach new audiences and to promote a wider range of pro-environmental behaviours such as energy efficiency and waste reduction.
The money will also be used on developing new nationwide online mapping on the Sustrans website.
This will show people how they can reach local parks, schools, shops and community centres on foot, by bike or on public transport.
Share: Social Housing Action on Resources and Environment, was awarded funds to help it deliver durable water savings – both technological and behavioural – as well as reductions in energy use and waste, and positively affect people’s environmental and community attitudes.
The programme’s aims are to achieve significant environmental savings and to catalyse residents in social housing to make pro-environmental changes to lifestyles and attitudes. The programme is a collaboration between Waterwise, Global Action Plan and Kathryn Rathouse Social Research who will be working in coordination with water companies and social housing providers in three regions of England to initiate and support community projects.
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