“Our vision is to create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food.” . There are some great initiatives around local food happening:… Read More »The Incredible Edible Network: growing food locally

“You can encourage flower-rich verges and ensure visible management. The key to realising this lies in ‘cut and collect’ whereby highways authorities remove the grass… Read More »Biodiversity on the roadside

“Most of our garden is quite a wild garden.” . One of the key ideas of the new Sid Valley Biodiversity Group is to focus… Read More »Sidford @ Gardeners’ World

“building a more resilient, nourishing and community-centred food system for the local area” . Some two years ago, a local food initiative was launched: In… Read More »In My Back Yard: new East Devon food producers coop

Using spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it for later use. . Batteries are increasingly important, but still problematic: New… Read More »New liquid air battery technology

“Empowering and enabling new community energy companies … to accelerate our transition to clean energy.” . Last month, the campaign for community energy ratcheted up:… Read More »Local Electricity Bill successfully introduced into parliament

“We have such a beautiful town and want people to know that it’s safe to visit and shop in too.” . Measures are being brought… Read More »Sidmouth slowly opens up

Send in your butterfly sightings! . A good suggestion from Butterfly Conservation’s June newsletter: . During what has been a difficult few months for many… Read More »Citizen science: what butterflies to spot in your garden

Committing to shop locally more when restrictions ease. And other ways to revitalise our town centres. . At the beginning of the pandemic, local shops… Read More »“The high street is vital to our community.”

… aims to empower Generation Net Zero with a deeper understanding of what Net Zero means, and what it will take to achieve it, both… Read More »Net Zero Home School: webinar series

Zoom talks from local experts: Tuesday 16th June . Biodiversity has become the focus for a lot of thinking and activity of late: Biodiversity Net… Read More »How can the Sid Valley enhance its biodiversity over the next decade?

“As the projects develop, we hope that other coastal areas facing similar issues will be able to learn from the work we have done and… Read More »Lower Otter Restoration Project to recieve £8.5m funding

The million-mile battery – but at what cost to the environment? . There are several issues around alternative technologies: Where do the raw materials come… Read More »New lithium battery technology

… if we take into account the food intake needed to cycle, or drive, or walk. . Many of us have been doing a lot… Read More »Cycling or car-sharing better than walking to work

… by sharing infrastructure. . There have been lots of issues around bad broadband: Problems around rural broadband continue… – Vision Group for Sidmouth Broadband… Read More »Aiming for “gigabit-capable” broadband networks to every home