CCA Newsletter Issue 25
Hi Everyone,
Spring is with us and another packed edition of the CCA
newsletter follows. Appropriate for a spring edition, when the
world comes back to life, we also welcome our newest and
youngest CCA member Jessica Povey, born on 2nd March to
Kate Povey who is a key member of the WEN Group and a
very enthusiastic CCA supporter.
Congratulations to the whole family and Happy Reading.
Paula
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| In case you missed it... |
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| 7th March |
Devon Climate Action Network is a brand new organization of
which CCA is now a part.
61 activi ... | | 11th March |
The Steering Group for the next year was elected as
follows:
Gerald Conyngham Chair, Charles M ... | | 23rd March |
About 40 people came to our public meeting on 23rd March at
the Boniface. It was a mixture of foo ... |
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| News Highlights |
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A significant shift in the way Americans view food
is coming. It offers hope for all.
Watch this clip: Michaelle Obama digs
White House Garden Schoolchildren have helped Michelle
Obama build a White House 'kitchen garden'.
... | |
Find out how much effort electricity companies are putting into
renewable technologies.
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The action campaign of the Age of Stupid film. Sign
a pledge card for sending to the Prime Minister and
other politicians.
... |
Share your passion for public and sustainable transport
through:-
National Bike Week
Crediton Cycle Path
Co-cars
Increasing use of buses and trains....
CCA Transport
group is open, welcoming and important.
... |
Crediton Library has agreed to loan out the following films:
An
Inconvenient Truth
The Power
of Community
The End of
Suburbia
The
11th hour
A Crude
Awakening
Message
in the Waves and A Farm for the Future will
be obtained once the BBC make them avai ... |
Would you enjoy creating a scrap book for CCA?
As you may have noticed pictures of CCA activities and
articles and letters by our supporters appear regularly
in the local press. We are also accumulating a number
of photos that need a proper home.
An archivist is needed to put all this ma ... | |
The deadline is 1st April, and we are aiming to get 1000
signatories by then. So help us reach that target.
We are calling on the government to provide the Environment
Agency with more resources to effectively police the UK Waste
Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive.
Cowbo ... |
I hope you will all email Angela Browning MP to ask her to be in
Parliament on 8th May to vote for the Green Energy Bill on
it's second reading.
The Bill is sponsored by Conservative Peter Ainsworth and has
cross party support. It's about making it much easier for
people to acquire microgeneratio ... |
Our plans for the renewable heat and energy open
weekend on the 16th and 17th May are beginning to firm up.
We have ten homes participating in and around Crediton.
On show at various times over the weekend will be two wood
burning boilers, a wood pellet stove, six solar hot water
systems, three ph ... |
Mid Devon Council (following in the footsteps of
Devon CC) have adopted the 'Greening The UK' policy noting
amongst other things the many ways that trees and green spaces
enhance our environment and well-being.
It goes on to state that the council believes that there should
be greater empha ... |
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“I think there is something more important than believing.
Action!
The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough whio will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualise their vision.”
W. Clement Stone