“I love how community is encouraging sharing and showing people how they can make a difference in a meaningful way.” [Angie, Sidmouth Repair Café] This… Read More »Sidmouth Repair Café is back: Sat 27th Sept
“Supporting community approaches towards extending the life of existing products: resisting obsolescence by sharing knowledge, skills and creating alternative solutions where they didn’t seem to… Read More »reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, repurpose, recycle, recover
“… exploring the growing efforts within the travel industry to accommodate disabled travellers” [Sustainability Reporter] . We can ask with confidence Is Sidmouth an ‘age friendly’… Read More »Inclusive travel rights for disabled people: a guide for Sidmouth
“You can create something that is of this place, not just a place that could be plonked anywhere. People can feel completely empowered – like… Read More »“People – not just planners – can drive radical change in how we build.”
“There will be an opportunity to have your say and share your thoughts and views” at the Library in the centre of town from 12… Read More »Reorganising Devon’s local government: roadshow comes to Sidmouth: Weds 3rd Sept
Funding can be used to purchase equipment such as solar PV, air-sourced heat pumps, insulation, LED lighting, etc. [East Devon District Council] Last year’s grant… Read More »Apply to East Devon’s Carbon Action Fund
Which is why it was so important to establish good design at the heart of the Neighbourhood Plan. . It is a couple of years ago… Read More »How we fix the modern scourge of soulless urban landscapes
from local planning to the climate and beyond… . A correspondent has got in touch with the VGS to ask to what extent people in… Read More »Trying to engage with local government
“A right to supply locally would enable community energy schemes to sell the clean power they generate directly to local homes and businesses. Communities across… Read More »Government commits to local selling for community energy schemes
“Have your say today – East Devon District Council local government reorganisation and devolution” – consultation extended to Sunday 31st August . We have been… Read More »Reorganising Devon’s local government: an expanded Exeter or two new unitary councils?
“We must all return to the basics: reduce, reuse, recycle, making any number of choices every day that collectively make a difference.” [Prof Richard Thompson,… Read More »Taming the flow of plastic pollution
Where global meets local in the Sid Valley . The VGS projects and blog try to ‘think globally and act locally’, as the ’60s saying… Read More »A look back at the big environment stories
“An incredible transformation taking shape.” [Mitch Tonks, CEO, Rockfish] . Back in April, the CEO of Rockfish restaurants was reported saying that the Sidmouth Rockfish will… Read More »Rockfish, Sidmouth @ the Drill Hall: ‘open by the end of this year’
This Saturday 26th July sees the Sidmouth Repair Café take its summer break – until it returns in September. Whether it’s a wonky lamp or… Read More »Sidmouth Repair Café – waste not, want not!
The proposed East Devon Local Plan policy would ‘limit development in areas deemed to be at significant risk of coastal erosion’ [East Devon News] Local… Read More »Cliff Road residents’ concern about planned restrictions to their property