“This energy security and price crisis is another prompt to do this.” . Maybe we need to be taking drastic action to reduce our energy… Read More »A guide to cutting both our energy bills and our carbon footprint

More than 3,000 workers at 60 companies across Britain will trial a four-day working week, in what is thought to be the biggest pilot scheme… Read More »Moving to a shorter working week

Carbon concrete is four times stronger and lighter. . Concrete is not exactly environmentally-friendly: Futures Forum: Climate change: and concrete: “the massive CO2 emitter” There… Read More »Alternatives to reinforced concrete

INSULATION … and the‘whole building approach’. . We need to be looking at the energy efficiency of traditional buildings: Understanding how any traditional building was designed to work rather… Read More »How to improve the energy efficiency of historic buildings

“Buildings that are non-designated heritage assets can be of considerable local architectural and historic significance.” Sidmouth’s Grade III and local heritage lists . Some might… Read More »Should we protect local heritage not nationally listed?

The Friends of the Commons newsletter: habitat management, Lower Otter Restoration Project, guided walks, Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve news… . . .As winter turns… Read More »East Devon Pebblebed Heaths – April update

“I cannot recall the last time that so many rural councils voiced their anger at specific service funding allocations.” Cornwall was “leading the way in… Read More »Funding rural bus services

“While climate change, biodiversity and food security are often viewed as separate challenges, they are inherently interlinked.” . There’s growing interest in holistic/agroecological/regenerative agriculture –… Read More »Regenerative Agriculture: the future of farming?

“… because it will help cut bills and carbon emissions while reducing reliance on foreign gas. It is a genuine triple whammy.” PLUS: Practical help… Read More »Energy efficiency: “the fabled silver bullet”

Practical ways to manage . Things are getting very difficult – if not desperate – for many: Where you stand if bailiffs knock at the… Read More »Cost of living crisis: help at hand

“People who are struggling in fuel poverty should reach out to their MPs to explain the situation they find themselves in – and contact their… Read More »Rural fuel poverty

“Over 50% of the UK public support the development of large-scale solar projects in their local area.” “Here in Devon, as elsewhere, a rash of… Read More »What support is there for wind and solar power in Devon?

Looking to reduce oil and gas consumption . Tomorrow, the UK government unveils its energy policy: What might the UK energy strategy contain and how… Read More »What happened to the German Energiewende?

Arguing for the mass insulation of buildings alongside a vast acceleration of renewables: “We should crank [them] up with wartime urgency. There should be far… Read More »Energy efficiency: “its time has come”

“Joanna’s input and expertise on plastic matters have been an invaluable guidance and I have used many of her briefings and input for this work.… Read More »A memorial to Joanna Toole – and ending ocean plastic pollution