Will there be adequate amounts of social housing in the new dormitory towns to be built in East Devon? Plans for housing in East Devon… Read More »“More social housing for the residents of the district to be provided.”
What sort of ‘development’ do we want in East Devon? . The CEO of the District Council famously said that if we went ‘carbon neutral’… Read More »Unsustainable over-development in East Devon
“For those involved in the design of buildings and cities, be they architects, urbanists, or citizens, there is a deep responsibility to be aware of,… Read More »Architecture and climate change
We need to be thinking about where our energy is coming from – and whether it should it be wind on this windy peninsula: Futures… Read More »Wind power in East Devon
Just before Christmas, the US president had a few words to say about ‘windmills’: Donald Trump: Windmills cause cancer | Sky News The Science Alert… Read More »“Wind turbines create pollution and kill birds”
Now the season of excess is over, we might need an excuse to cut down a bit. And this might also help the planet too,… Read More »Lose weight and save the planet..
For the last decade or so our media has been all about hype and dissent. We are constantly being told that catastrophe of some sort… Read More »Notice the good things in Sidmouth
The Soviet-born British journalist Peter Pomerantsev has looked at the source of our post-truth world: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart… Read More »Here’s to an evidence-based future!
The previous post took us to the dystopian neo-noir and cult film Blade Runner: 2019: Blade Runner: “The future has arrived: it’s just not evenly… Read More »“Stop seeing humanity as the problem and start seeing human beings as the solution!”
The Los Angeles of 2019 depicted in the cult film Blade Runner is not exactly the Sidmouth of 2019: Blade Runner 1982 | Blade Runner… Read More »2019: Blade Runner: “The future has arrived: it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
Viscount Ridley is a bit of a contrarian: Matt Ridley – Net Zero Lords debate 26 June 2019 | YouTube . But we need contrarians… Read More »Have we just had ‘the best decade in human history’?
Peter Pomerantsev’s latest book, ‘This is not propaganda’ looks at how negative and fake news has become normalised: This Is Not Propaganda | Adventures in… Read More »‘Constructive News’ for 2020: communicating positive, solution-oriented news
Following on from the general election, commentators have been looking at how we can create stronger local economies: The hope has to be that …… Read More »Building a resilient local economy in 2020
Good news from the Possible blog: Climate action 2019 – What to feel good about. A round up of positive news that you… Read More »Climate action 2019: positive news!
Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote in the Telegraph earlier this year on how we can meet the ‘climate… Read More »Three steps to meet the climate and nature emergency in 2020