Green infrastructure
The “green approach” in architecture and design. . The Arch Daily features a lot on these pages as it regularly has great ideas on urban… Read More »Green infrastructure
The “green approach” in architecture and design. . The Arch Daily features a lot on these pages as it regularly has great ideas on urban… Read More »Green infrastructure
Reimagining an unloved space and turning it into a sea-themed garden . Last summer, an idea for an ‘unloved space’ bore fruit: Creating a Coral… Read More »Creating a Coral Reef Community Garden at the Ham underway
Devon Maritime Forum News Bulletin – March 2021 Hello and welcome to March’s DMF News Bulletin. In this month’s edition we signpost you to a number… Read More »Devon Maritime Forum: March newsletter
Sidmouth has “one of the highest vaccination rates in the country”. “But the fact is immunization doesn’t eliminate all cases.” “We do not yet have… Read More »Sidmouth, Covid and care homes
“All in all, though a carbon tax in the UK is likely to be ineffective at best and economically disastrous for marginalized communities at worst,… Read More »To carbon tax or not to carbon tax?
Solar panels and bumblebees in an expanding ‘business park’ Or building an eco-home and working the land . There’s a nice ‘business park’ just outside… Read More »‘Net-zero development’ in Mid Devon
“We’re Solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.” “The heartbeat of Solarpunk is looking to the future with optimism.” “The choice to… Read More »Solarpunk is alive and well in the Sid Valley!
“Local authorities need to be the captains of change and engage in this agenda.” . As suggested by the Guardian’s architecture correspondent, Oliver Wainwright: As… Read More »Reimagining the high street: creating green spaces
Stirling Prize-winning architects behind “exemplar” application. Councillors were getting “absolute earache” from residents but sometimes the council had to “grasp the bullet”. . A District… Read More »Affordable Passivhaus in Somerset
… as destination points. “We need planners and local authorities to recognise the importance of the hospitality and nightlife sector on the regeneration of our… Read More »Reinventing the high street – repurposing empty retail stores
“A new national mood with 66 percent of adults worried by the state of the planet, climate change and the decline of wildlife and nature.”… Read More »Mainstream media going green
… contradictions, alternatives and trying to square the circle . HS2: It’s all steam ahead for one of the UK’s biggest infrastructure projects: HS2 gets… Read More »The true costs of infrastructure
The future of food security/nutrition, livelihoods and environmental sustainability . The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has just produced a report looking at the pandemic’s… Read More »Is the food system ‘fraying’?
Available: A Toolkit for Local Authorities . The Devon Wildlife Trust is concerned about the use of pesticides: Pesticides: respond to the UK’s action plan… Read More »Phasing out glyphosate pesticides used by councils
“Going cashless isn’t straightforward” . Banks and cash machines are disappearing from our high street: Sidmouth loses yet another high street bank – Vision Group… Read More »A cashless society, small businesses and the elderly