We might be willing to get onto our bikes if it didn’t feel so dangerous out there… Here’s the latest information sent out today on… Read More »Speed kills! Slow down!

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!