The County, District (and Town) Councils have declared ‘climate emergencies’: Devon Climate Emergency | devon.gov ‘Climate Emergency’ declared – but shouts of ‘shame on you’… Read More »From climate declaration to climate action plan: a guide for councils
Things have been looking very uncertain over the District Council’s relocation policy: Knowle relocation project: BREAKING: PegasusLife merger . There have been new Freedom of… Read More »Knowle relocation project: costs and profits
Adam Rutherford of Radio 4’s Inside Science will be at the Science Festival on Sunday: The Book of Humans – by Dr Adam Rutherford .… Read More »Devon going carbon neutral
The Town Council, together with the Chamber of Commerce, has rebranded the town: . The Tourism and Economy Committee presented its Interim Branding report to… Read More »Sidmouth: ‘A not so hidden national treasure’
Yesterday, the Science Festival’s Café Scientifique held a session on energy: Cafe Scientifique: Wave and Tidal Power: Combating Climate Change . This evening’s Costing the Earth… Read More »Orkney: a model for renewable energy
Planting trees is clearly a good thing – at many levels: Plant lots of trees to tackle climate change Café Scientifique: Trees for Multiple Benefits… Read More »A flagship forest for Devon?
It is possible to produce good quality social housing – which also ticks all the green boxes – as featured on these news pages: The… Read More »The energy-saving, social housing revolution > Passivhaus wins architecture prize
Climate Activists have been very much in evidence today: Extinction Rebellion: Arrests at Sydney and Amsterdam protests And not everyone is enamoured of its tactics:… Read More »How easy is it to live ‘off-grid’?
Last week, the Town Council’s new environment committee met up for the second time, and agreed to its new guiding policy: Sidmouth Environment Policy .… Read More »Councils need more power and funding to meet national climate targets
There won’t be a Judicial Review of the decision to grant planning permission – but other options are being considered by campaigners: Sidford Business Park:… Read More »Sidford Business Park: Update 36: public meeting Tues 15th October
Radio 4 Extra has been replaying Richard Mabey’s programme on the ash tree: Yew, Sycamore And Ash—Series 2 . It is a beautiful tree: Under… Read More »Tackling ash-dieback in Devon
One of the most popular reads in academia is Garrett Hardin’s ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’: The tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource… Read More »Governing the Commons: how communities can look after their environment
Putting up car park charges is pretty heavy-handed: Raising car parking charges is about raising revenue – not about reducing emissions Raising car parking charges… Read More »Raising car parking charges: “Given the current state of the high street, this is not the time to put up prices.”
Remember the Sidmouth fatberg as reported across the globe earlier in the year: Sidmouth has a fatberg The Adventures of Fatberg BBC’s Blue Planet visits… Read More »The Sidmouth fatberg: stop flushing wetwipes down the toilet!
Earlier this evening, Channel Four news lead with a startling piece: Extinction Britain: Wildlife survey exposes shocking decline in animals . Indeed, across the media,… Read More »Extinction Britain: State of Nature report 2019