Ambitious tree-planting targets
14,000 trees – 1 for every person living in the Sid Valley. Trees, biodiversity and climate change. . Last week, the town council’s environment committee… Read More »Ambitious tree-planting targets
14,000 trees – 1 for every person living in the Sid Valley. Trees, biodiversity and climate change. . Last week, the town council’s environment committee… Read More »Ambitious tree-planting targets
Appreciating bees as pollinators. Moving away from sugar-feeding and intensively farming bees for their honey. . Earlier this month, Charles Sinclair of the Sid Valley… Read More »Shifting towards sustainable beekeeping
“Ancient woodlands are important because they have had time to develop a rich diversity of wildlife and they sequester a large store of carbon in… Read More »Allowing and encouraging woodland to regenerate
… one of the largest citizen science projects in the world. “What will you see?” . This is the “world’s largest garden wildlife survey” –… Read More »Big Garden Birdwatch: 28-30 January
“Looking at weather data from 1865-71 and 2017-20, very clear evidence of our climate now being milder in winter and warmer in summer.” “Only 18%… Read More »Sidmouth’s changing climate
“Solar can be a net benefit in terms of restoring a native habitat and improving ecosystem services, like storm water control and carbon storage and… Read More »Are solar farms good for nature?
“Soil is the most biodiverse place in the Sid Valley.” “Soil can sequester much more carbon and for far longer. Especially if it is left… Read More »Looking after our soil in our gardens
“Making changes to leave the land better than you found it.” Devon farmer Andy Gray’s regenerative farming project to feature on the BBC’s Countryfile programme… Read More »Regenerative Agriculture in Devon
The Environment Bill “will be further strengthened with an amendment that will see a duty enshrined in law to ensure water companies secure a progressive… Read More »Breaking: new controls on dumping sewage
“One way of dealing with this might be environmentally friendly methods of treating human waste, such as constructed treatment wetlands (CTWs), or artificially created wetlands specifically… Read More »Drugs in our rivers
“The bottom line is, England’s rivers are too polluted.” South West Water “is sitting on a £3bn cash pile, but directors say they intend to spend… Read More »EA report: in the South West, only one in every five rivers support a healthy ecology
“… to inspire and enable the creation of wildlife-friendly villages, parishes, towns and cities to support nature’s recovery in Devon.” . There’s a new initiative… Read More »Wilder Communities – in the Sid Valley
Towards a Nature Recovery Plan for the Sid Valley Citizen science on the River Sid . A fortnight ago, saw the launch of the Wild… Read More »Wild About Devon – in the Sid Valley
Solarpunk sans politics . The Solarpunk idea or movement is very much about now: Solarpunk 2021 – Vision Group for Sidmouth . It has many… Read More »Solarpunk: resources for Sidmouth
“Biodiversity exists everywhere, even the smallest urban green spaces provide essential habitats for the most minute of species. If we manage to link those small… Read More »Our green corridors – connecting with nature