Farming and public goods
Identifying and measuring public goods from pasture-fed livestock How do you measure the value of natural resources such as oxygen or water or soil?… Read More »Farming and public goods
Climate Emergency Design Guide
How built environment professionals can work together to put us on the path to a zero carbon future . The construction industry is taking climate… Read More »Climate Emergency Design Guide
Climate change and the District Council
“Councils are best placed to respond to the public’s growing concern about climate change.” Local government will be facing yet more tough financial choices… Read More »Climate change and the District Council
Urban design and climate change
Powerful projects to reshape our built environment . Planners, builders and architects have a huge impact on how we live: Architecture and climate change .… Read More »Urban design and climate change
Avocados vs Monarch Butterflies
Illegal clearcutting for the planting of avocado orchards – one of Mexico’s most lucrative crops – is destroying the pine forest habitats of the monarch… Read More »Avocados vs Monarch Butterflies
BREAKING: Drill Hall plans passed
Rockfish to refurbish the old Drill Hall to convert it into a fish restaurant . The campaign to save the Drill Hall has been running… Read More »BREAKING: Drill Hall plans passed
A history of climate change
How the current changes in climate are so different to earlier changes . Back in October, Prof Brian Golding invited three eminent lecturers to present the… Read More »A history of climate change
Reopening the Sidmouth railway
‘If there is any way we could reopen the train line to Sidmouth we should’ . The former railway line from Feniton to Ottery and… Read More »Reopening the Sidmouth railway
Powering housing with clean energy
It’s about being more energy-efficient, cheaper to run and producing fewer CO2 emissions The news from Wales: . Climate Change: Clean energy to power… Read More »Powering housing with clean energy
Car-free town centres
Reclaiming urban areas for pedestrians and cyclists: “Transport policy is one of the few areas where local authorities have discretion to fulfil pledges to become… Read More »Car-free town centres
Devon’s economy
The trends, opportunities and challenges – in Digital Technologies, Professional, Scientific & Technical Services, Healthcare and Tourism . Young people interviewed for the Sid Valley… Read More »Devon’s economy
Season creep
Warmer winters and earlier springs… Climate change – is it all bad? We are seeing spring emerge much earlier: The full impact of global warming is… Read More »Season creep
An ECO HUB for Exmouth
to inform, signpost and re-skill Exmouth’s population A great project is being planned in Exmouth – as outlined in the latest newsletter from Transition… Read More »An ECO HUB for Exmouth
Building Better Building Beautiful
The beauty commission’s report is full of welcome ideas: now we need to act on them . Is ‘beauty’ a rather old-fashioned notion? On the… Read More »Building Better Building Beautiful
Making water bottles from sugar cane waste
“VEGANBOTTLE® is created without petrol and combats against plastic pollution of traditional bottles” . A very successful but very new French company is producing some… Read More »Making water bottles from sugar cane waste