“A vibrant town depends on visitors.” . There has understandably been unease about the ‘easing’ of lockdown – and the influx of visitor to tourist… Read More »Making Sidmouth pubs and cafés safe and welcoming

Rethinking the tourism model . The tourist industry is desperate to reopen: Devon and Cornwall get ready to #WelcomeBack visitors from July 4 – Cornwall… Read More »Looking to a new kind of tourism after the corornavirus

Can you help? Sharing food in Sidmouth which would otherwise be thrown away. Using the Olio app to connect food and people. . There are… Read More »Looking for Food Waste Heroes

“The move would create thousands of jobs, a more resilient country and tackle the wildlife and climate crises.” . Today’s online panel discussion with University… Read More »Call for a National Nature Service

An ultra-low embodied carbon building from locally-grown hemp. . A piece in yesterday’s Telegraph by Simon Heffer laments “the failure to build with local materials, whether stone or… Read More »Grow your own house

“At the heart of the community.” . People are realising that the ‘corner shop’ is in fact cheaper than the big supermarkets – and that… Read More »‘How the corner shop has come into its own’

… Monday, 29 June. “If you don’t want to go back to the commute into Exeter and have fully embraced flexible working over lockdown.” .… Read More »Lighthouse Sidmouth Workhub to reopen

“The importance of getting shops open and offering a good welcome.” . As of tomorrow, Monday 22nd, Sidmouth’s town centre will be making more space… Read More »Sidmouth businesses slowly open up

“Our vision is to create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food.” . There are some great initiatives around local food happening:… Read More »The Incredible Edible Network: growing food locally

“You can encourage flower-rich verges and ensure visible management. The key to realising this lies in ‘cut and collect’ whereby highways authorities remove the grass… Read More »Biodiversity on the roadside

“Most of our garden is quite a wild garden.” . One of the key ideas of the new Sid Valley Biodiversity Group is to focus… Read More »Sidford @ Gardeners’ World

“building a more resilient, nourishing and community-centred food system for the local area” . Some two years ago, a local food initiative was launched: In… Read More »In My Back Yard: new East Devon food producers coop

Using spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it for later use. . Batteries are increasingly important, but still problematic: New… Read More »New liquid air battery technology

“Empowering and enabling new community energy companies … to accelerate our transition to clean energy.” . Last month, the campaign for community energy ratcheted up:… Read More »Local Electricity Bill successfully introduced into parliament

“We have such a beautiful town and want people to know that it’s safe to visit and shop in too.” . Measures are being brought… Read More »Sidmouth slowly opens up