Young Greens Walk the Walk

Local Green Party member Wolfgang Wood is walking 50 miles from Kidsgrove to Manchester (including the entire length of the Gritstone Trail from Kidsgrove to Disley), to highlight the Climate Emergency.

He wants to remind us all that many short journeys can be done on foot! Wolfgang’s walk will take place on 8th-9th of September.

Wolfgang says:

“I was shocked to read on the BBC website that 60% of 1-2 mile journeys are taken by car.  Cars on average produce 290 grams of CO2 per mile meaning that changing from driving a daily 1.5 mile journey to walking 5 days a week could save over 100 kilograms of carbon dioxide per year.

"To show that it is possible to replace short-distance car travel with walking, I'm doing an extreme example of a 50-mile continuous walk from Kidsgrove train station to Piccadilly station in Manchester using the Gritstone Trail and various canal towpaths.”

Wolfgang, 17, lives in Scholar Green near Alsager and is a student at Reaseheath College near Nantwich. He founded Cheshire East Young Greens to support the work of the Green Party in and around Cheshire East. This is their first expedition!

Rich McCarthy, Co-Chair of Cheshire East Green Party said:

“Wolfgang has planned a great, local expedition which both highlights our society's problem with its attitude to and use of transport, and at the same time is an adventure which can be achieved without despoiling the environment or our climate in any way.

"This is definitely a great example of challenging ourselves in a sustainable manner and I’m looking forward to hearing all about the walk once he's had a good sleep afterwards.”

To join him, sponsor him or find out more: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/young-greens-walk.

All funds raised will go to the Cheshire East Young Greens group.