Last night’s Panorama on BBC One looked at a pressing problem for all our towns and cities, including Sidmouth: . How to save the UK’s… Read More »Save our High Street: creating places where you can “work, rest and play”
The District Council has very few charging stations: District Council votes for charging points in its car parks The trouble being that we have to… Read More »Solar-powered charging stations for electric cars
The Neighbourhood Plan is made: Sidmouth (made) … together with the excellent Place Analysis which goes deeper into the layout and design of the Valley’s… Read More »Resilient responses to reverse the effects of urban flooding
The Telegraph points out that the huge amount of e-waste we create can actually be recycled and earn a bit of money: . Got a… Read More »Turning e-waste into opportunities
“80% of the buildings that will exist in 2050 have already been built. The most effective form of sustainability may, therefore, be saving energy by… Read More »Adapting buildings to climate change
The Sidmouth Science Festival will be holding several events around the theme of ‘green growth’ – including its first Café Scientifique of the year: Café… Read More »Science Festival launches Green Growth competitions
The District Council hasn’t got any money – which is partly not its fault: Futures Forum: District and County Council announce spending plans in a… Read More »Knowle relocation project: developer expected to pay
George Monbiot writes in today’s Guardian: Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet | Guardian . And tonight, he’s looking at… Read More »The future of farming
The District Council is making efforts to explain its plans for Sidmouth’s BMP with this press release from today: . Sidmouth and East Beach Management… Read More »Beach Management Plan: EDDC FAQs updated
In the project summary of the BMP, the EA states: The combined scheme protects all of the frontages at Sidmouth and includes raising the splash… Read More »Beach Management Plan: “a splash barrier could actually enhance the seafront”
The Environment Agency’s South West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee will meet up this Thursday 9th January. It will consider the Sidmouth BMP Local Levy… Read More »Beach Management Plan: funding latest: bridging the gap
There’s always the question of which level of local government should be responsible for what – and it gets rather confusing, especially as one authority… Read More »District Council giving responsibilities to Town Council: assets or liabilities?
Here’s a very welcome website: . “The home of easy, every day sustainabilty for the #imperfectlygreen!” “If you want to find your tribe of fellow… Read More »How to live sustainably(ish)
One of the main issues of the Transition Town movement some ten years ago was ‘peak oil’ – that we’d be running out of the… Read More »The Energy Transition
Six years ago, beavers were spotted in the wild for the first time in hundreds of years – and it was in East Devon: Futures… Read More »On the River Otter: successful rewilding of the beaver