“Covid-19 has pointed to the urgent need to diversify the production and distribution of food, and to shorten supply chains. What we need is a… Read More »What Covid-19 has taught us about food

“As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics.” A new discipline, planetary health, is emerging… Read More »How to create a pandemic

“Certified B Corporations are those who meet the highest standards of verified, overall social and environmental performance, public transparencies and legal accountability.” . Sidmouth is… Read More »What’s a ‘B Corporation’?

“Sidmouth’s like many other old coastal towns, it has very narrow roads and streets and it’s very difficult to achieve anything. But we have got… Read More »Strategies to open up Sidmouth: more social distancing

Survey of how people felt about traffic and transport, shopping and delivery services, working from home and broadband . Last week, the results from the… Read More »Life under lockdown – and how Sidmouth might recover

“What we can do to make our town safer than anywhere else.” . Things are progressing to open up the Sid Valley – and in… Read More »Strategies to open up Sidmouth: making people feel safe

A radical practice is suddenly getting mainstream attention. Will it change how we help one another? “It’s fantastic to see so many people engaging with… Read More »Mutual aid during and after the coronavirus

Protecting peat bogs. How you can make sure you aren’t accidentally harming this precious habitat with your gardening choices. . Gardeners can’t get their hands… Read More »Using peat-free compost

To help to make Sidmouth a go-to destination as well as keeping local residents safer: Up-grade all our public conveniences so they are ‘no-touch’. Provide… Read More »Strategies to open up Sidmouth: part two

“As an act of tactical urbanism it would be interesting and simple to chalk a 2.5m wide footpath width down the whole of High and… Read More »New cycle lanes and wider pavements: ‘pop-ups’ for Sidmouth

DIY Urbanism, Planning-by-Doing, Urban Acupuncture, or Urban Prototyping: community-led, low-cost and scalable place-based interventions. . An idea seems to have found its moment: . .… Read More »Tactical urbanism in a time of coronavirus

Choosing alternative means of transport is going to have ‘far-reaching consequences’: Reduced car parking income for councils. Fears of reduced footfall in town centres. .… Read More »New cycle lanes and wider pavements: the problems

“There is a window of opportunity now that people see the benefits of reduced traffic for air quality, road safety, and tranquility.” . Just before… Read More »New cycle lanes and wider pavements: ‘pop-ups’ for Devon

… “to help ensure local people can walk or cycle in a safe way”. . There have been calls to make it safer to move… Read More »New cycle lanes and wider pavements: priorities and funding

East Devon Council officers working from home “begs the question about the expensive hot-desking HQ in Heathpark.” . We need to be rethinking our work-places… Read More »Redesigning where and how council employees work