“Business confidence in the South West higher than the national average. [chartered accountants ICAEW’s Business Confidence Monitor] . During the very slow months of deepest… Read More »How well are businesses doing in East Devon?
“Consumers care about sustainability—and back it up with their wallets” [McKinsey] . It’s the Rural Services Network’s national rural conference in September – and they have… Read More »Do businesses have a wider responsibility to the environment?
Next Sidmouth Repair Café – Saturday 29th July! . Simply google ‘news about repair cafés’ and you get hundreds of hits, just for the UK… Read More »The ever-increasing growth of Repair Cafés
“The Government will bring forward an alternative proposal to empower widespread community energy sector growth.” [Power for People campaign] . Commentators have been asking Where has… Read More »Will the Energy Bill include community energy?
“Rewilding is one of those words that prompts debate, some of it less than polite: I just say it usually the wrong word.” [Ed Dolpin,… Read More »The ‘rewilding’ debate: ‘going back to traditional farming practices’
The Uxbridge Ultra-low emissions zone: “People want support and help to go green, not feel they’re being forced into it before they’re financially able.” [Jack Richardson… Read More »National byelections, the issues and East Devon
“The reality is that net zero is being used to license a ‘burn now – pay later approach which has seen carbon emissions continue to soar.”… Read More »Electric Vehicles, Net Zero and Not Zero
“Empowering our community to make the decisions about what developments take place” . It’s two years since the launch of a very transformative project on… Read More »East Quay and the Onion Collective @ Watchet
“Ways to Reduce Processed Foods And Cut Your Food Budget” Shop local, shop fresh! Shop at Sidmouth’s local bakers! . There’s currently a lot of… Read More »The debate around ‘ultra-processed foods’: shop fresh, shop local!
Vegans eat more ultra-processed foods than any other diet. How bad is that really for health and the environment? [Euronews] “British farmers could find business… Read More »The debate around ‘ultra-processed foods’
“In an example of sustainability, materials from a demounted Nightingale Hospitals have been reclaimed and reused to build a diagnostics centre in Beales department store, in… Read More »Health services on our high streets
The award-winning ‘Renter’s Retreat’ garden “aims to inspire people to make yards and gardens wilder and that everybody can play an important role in helping nature to… Read More »Wildlife gardening in a small back yard
“It just seeks to set out a summary of what people and organisations have said to us.” . Six months ago, the District Council was… Read More »Draft East Devon Local Plan – Consultation Feedback Report
France introduces a repair bonus for shoes and clothes. What are your own tricks to make do and mend? Why not send in a nomination… Read More »Make do and mend – à la française
“Honey bees that choose their own nesting site and live without human intervention.” [Jonathan Powell, Free-Living Bees] “Reducing the impact of modern beekeeping practices on… Read More »Helping wild bees