Tips and resources to help you take your first steps towards ECOpreneurship! . How can we be both business-minded and green? This is the question… Read More »How to help the environment through your new business
“If we believe that local democracy needs to be revitalised and invested in, then to me digital infrastructure will be part of it.” . When… Read More »Virtual meetings and citizen engagement
How much ‘intervention’ is needed to regenerate woodland? . It’s clear we need to be planting more trees – but how and where is key.… Read More »Temperate forests, livestock and climate change
“Advocating for improved disclosures, transparency, and a shift to renewable energy sources, considering lesser energy-consuming cryptocurrencies, and offsetting emissions.” . One of the biggest users… Read More »Bitcoin and energy consumption: the debate intensifies
The causes of and responses to soaring energy bills. Or: how to wean ourselves off gas. . The energy company Enova in Australia poses questions… Read More »Tackling the energy crisis
– a community-driven project . The ‘circular economy’ is gaining traction – but it’s still a rather difficult thing to get across: Transitioning from the… Read More »An innovative circular neighbourhood
“Turning the least productive fifth of our farmland towards nature recovery would lead to a less than 3 per cent reduction in food production.” .… Read More »Landscape Recovery: “rewilding landscapes”
Community gardens, agroforestry, physic gardens and no-dig gardening . Recently, these pages published excerpts from a very up-to-date piece on food forests from a very… Read More »Food forests and forest gardens
“We need tourism in Cornwall — there are not many other industries down here. But currently, we’re a little out of balance and the tourism… Read More »AirBnb and homelessness in the South-West
“Amid the zeal to recycle, there’s no small irony in the fact the main sources of renewable energy cannot themselves be renewed when they reach… Read More »The hidden costs of alternative energy technologies
“All birds are brilliant, but Swifts are something else.” . They are an iconic part of our summer skies: Can you tell the difference between… Read More »How will you welcome swifts back this summer?
Plus: the Telegraph’s ‘Clean Rivers Campaign’ . SWW has been doing a bit of PR, promising ‘investment’ for Sidmouth and that “investigations into storm overflows… Read More »FT’s ‘damning report’ on South West Water
“… for the benefit of biodiversity, our communities, and our landscape.” . The East Devon AONB held its annual bash for its Ambassadors earlier in… Read More »East Devon AONB’s annual event – ‘making connections’
URBAN SPRAWL NEWS: Car dependency: or, Where is the sustainable transport? . Wonderful news from Cranbrook today: E-bikes installed at Cranbrook and Honiton stations |… Read More »Cranbrook as “cowpat” development
At the Sidmouth Seafest 2022: “Getting everyone – all ages involved and creative and engaged with thinking and acting positively to protect our seas.” Giant… Read More »Kelp our Oceans