Search Results for: biodiversity

How flooding on our roads is not going to get much better any time soon… . There are fears of roads turning into rivers –… Read More »How roads become rivers

Sustainable drainage systems, or “SuDS” – nature-based drainage ranging from water butts and pavement “rain gardens” to ponds and reed beds – are increasingly important… Read More »Is installing reed beds a viable option to clean our water?

“You only have to look at the current situation with Children Services in Devon. This isn’t brought on by those working on the frontline. It… Read More »Disappointing news for rural areas

A look at the different views and perspectives of these special places. . The outline proposal for the friends group, aka Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries, hopes… Read More »Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries: bringing visions together

“The notion of ‘cherishing’ hopefully indicates respect to loved ones and the social/religious heritage of these places, and to signal the need to nurture the… Read More »Launching the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries group

“It is time to address supply and demand in an integrated way, freeing up land for the production of nutritious food to address the food… Read More »‘Sugar pollution’: should the ‘producer pay’?

No plans as yet for a ‘meat tax’ – but support for ‘sugar and salt taxes’. . What behaviours should be encouraged/discouraged by government –… Read More »Meat tax? Sugar tax? Salt tax?

“This is something we could really work with.” “There’s plenty more sustainable fish in the sea beyond the big five, you just need to know… Read More »‘Most British fisheries are unsustainable’: but not in Lyme Bay

“Sidmouth is lumbered with an impressive white elephant that has set back the biodiversity of a locally important site for years.  It would have been far… Read More »The Knowle amphitheatre: a talk, a site visit and an alternative narrative

The Covid pandemic was a reminder that localised networks give our food system resilience during disruption, but also that they pay farmers fairly to produce… Read More »How is local food doing in the Sid Valley?

“Not all milk and meat is the same. Extensive, often mobile, pastoral systems – of the sort commonly seen across the African continent, as well… Read More »A nuanced debate around livestock and greenhouse gases

“But the reasons for the decline are clear and we know conservation actions deliver results for nature. We have never had a better understanding of… Read More »Nature-depletion: State of Nature report 2023

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” [Facebook comment] . In August 2020, there were complaints about areas of the Sidmouth Cemetery gone wild. This… Read More »Managing wildlife in Sidmouth Cemetery – three years on

… for local groups such as the VGS looking at local issues? . To what extent can AI help in doing research and putting together… Read More »To what extent can AI chat apps ‘create policy’?

The University of Exeter is to build a solar farm on Duryard Park . One of the main arguments against solar farms is that they… Read More »Urban solar park vs urban green space