£100m of new funding to support the development of Direct Air Capture (DAC) emissions reduction technologies.  . We need to be getting our carbon emissions… Read More »Climate change: and carbon capture

There are also special features on COVID-19, the Benyon Review of Highly Protected Marine Areas, Smart Ports, 5 litre Challenge, and finding plastic via satellites.… Read More »Devon Maritime Forum – June/July newsletter

A new language, a lexicon of blue that includes terms like blue economy, blue new deal, blue co-ops, blue carbon and blue biotech. . The… Read More »A blue new deal…

A traffic management scheme for Sidmouth? A round table would discuss ‘all the issues’. . Over the past weeks, schemes have been put into effect… Read More »A traffic management scheme for Ottery

– a Music crowdfunding project in Sidmouth by The Sidmouth Folk Festival . In April, the biggest event of the year had to be cancelled:… Read More »Be A Sidmouth Folk Festival Champion!

Finding a model to ensure food security and reasonable prices, while striving to increase sustainability and reduce global warming. . Last month, the MP for… Read More »The Agriculture Bill and the future for England’s farmers

Free Webinars from the Devon Maritime Forum . From the latest newsletter: . DMF/LNP Summer Seminars 2020 . Organised and hosted by the DMF in… Read More »A Blue Recovery: “a healthier, cleaner, greener marine”

How much provision is there already? . There have been concerns about the image of Sidmouth: “We need to show Sidmouth in its best light.”… Read More »Byelaws and bad behaviour on the beach

“… so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities” . A new campaign is with us, as reported by the Independent: Plastic Free… Read More »Plastic Free July – the campaign starts

How can we create a better food future for all in a post-Covid world? . BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme has been doing some very… Read More »Rethinking Food

“Sidmouth folks’ beach ball” . Yesterday’s posting captured some of the dismay at people overdoing it on the beach: “We need to show Sidmouth in… Read More »Sidmouth: “a lovely community”

“If people find our beach covered in rubbish they won’t come back. If they experience antisocial behaviour until late in the night, they won’t come… Read More »“We need to show Sidmouth in its best light.”

Educate and collaborate! Let wildlife move uninhibited through your garden! . Earlier this month, a new group dedicated to helping wildlife was formally set up:… Read More »Ideas on how the Sid Valley can enhance its biodiversity

– a resurgence in interest in ‘local food’. . Over the past few weeks, there have a couple of developments focussing on the issues around… Read More »Community Supported Agriculture in East Devon

Should volunteers step in to clear up the mess? . The Sidmouth Plastic Warriors were out in strength a fortnight ago – the purpose being… Read More »Litter on the beach