Refill your plastic water bottle!
It can be done easily and safely at outlets everywhere. It’s all about trying to reduce ‘the pandemic of plastic pollution’. . This month, there’s… Read More »Refill your plastic water bottle!
It can be done easily and safely at outlets everywhere. It’s all about trying to reduce ‘the pandemic of plastic pollution’. . This month, there’s… Read More »Refill your plastic water bottle!
Digging and scrubbing around helps to create landscapes that attract all manner of wildlife. . The ideas and practice of ‘rewilding’ are gaining ground: Wild… Read More »A guide to rewilding your backyard
New analysis finds over nine in ten rural areas are unaffordable for care workers in the private rented sector as rural housing week 2020 begins… Read More »Rural Housing Week – and housing rural key workers
Drivers are being asked to help deliver a network of electric vehicle (EV) charging points across Devon by revealing their driving habits and attitudes towards… Read More »More charging points for Devon: questionnaire
… to provide information and operate a Community Volunteer scheme. . From the very beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, Sid Valley Help has been there:… Read More »Help at hand: Sid Valley HELP still on hand
“They are something everyone has had to get used to wearing.” . There have been great efforts made locally to look after locals and visitors… Read More »Strategies to open up: wearing face masks in public
‘Build, Build, Build’ Proposed changes to Britain’s seven-decades old planning system . We are being promised a ‘planning revolution’: PM: Build, Build, Build – GOV.UK… Read More »Of newts and planning
Achieving the highest standards of beach management and water quality. . Last summer, Sidmouth didn’t manage to get a ‘blue flag’ for its beaches: Sidmouth… Read More »A blue flag for Sidmouth
“The need to go from retail to services as providing the future vitality of the town centre.” “Green space has never been more valued and… Read More »Build back better – but locally
We can still find wildflowers if we look, but they need our help. The Biodiversity Group will be working on plans to increase the space… Read More »Promoting wildflowers in the Sid Valley
“Achieving the UK’s climate goals and rebuilding the economy fit naturally together. Each makes the other possible. Success demands that we do both. The actions… Read More »A green new deal for the UK?
“Initial low-cost projects include tree planting and re-wilding. However, in order to achieve a substantial change in emissions, changes will be required to both housing… Read More »District Council pushes climate change projects
“Welcome back” . Businesses are opening up, as reported on Nub News: Jurassic Paddle Sports returns to Sidmouth beach | sidmouth.nub.news Staff at The Filling… Read More »Sidmouth slowly reopens
£100m of new funding to support the development of Direct Air Capture (DAC) emissions reduction technologies. . We need to be getting our carbon emissions… Read More »Climate change: and carbon capture
There are also special features on COVID-19, the Benyon Review of Highly Protected Marine Areas, Smart Ports, 5 litre Challenge, and finding plastic via satellites.… Read More »Devon Maritime Forum – June/July newsletter