Garden Share
Scheme
The Garden Share Scheme continues to attract new people joining
and there are now 6 people who are matched up, and there are yet
more people who are looking for suitable matches. There are a
number of great gardens available for growers. If anyone is
interested there ar ... |
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The European Commission has just approved growing genetically
modified crops in the European Union for the first time in 12
years!
Caving to the GM lobby, the commission has ignored 60% of
Europeans who feel we have to get the facts first before growing
foods that could pose a threat to our ... |
Sustainable Crediton have an ambitious agenda as a Transition
Town organisation and lots of things we would like to do. Mostly we
rely on the commitment and energy of all our supporters, ie you,
but there are times when we need money to run events, produce
publicity materials and cover other ... |
The Sustainable Crediton H&M group has been in
abeyance for the last few months since losing our regular meeting
place.
Exeter Hearts & Souls group have however been very active
with regular meetings and trainings including an Intuition
Workshop in March which some Sustainable Credi ... |
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The Robin Hood Tax campaign is a movement bringing
together dozens of organisations that work to reduce poverty in the
UK and overseas, and campaign to tackle climate change. They have
come together during the economic crisis to campaign for a new deal
between banks and society.
The Robin H ... |
Paula and I are attempting an experiment during the spring and
summer to become a one car family. We live in the country with no
immediate neighbours about 1 1/2 miles from Cheriton Fitzpaine.
Until recently we had two cars, one doing about 9000 miles pa
and another doing 4000 miles pa. The ... |
It is an excellent time to join Transport Group and / or express interest in
the Car Club.
We are close to getting a Co-Car for Crediton
National Bike Week is coming up. Shall we arrange a ride?
We hope to hear how Involve can help us.
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If you read the Crediton Gazette, you will have seen a picture
of me on the front page (23rd March) tearing up an offer of a grant
of £400. We hope there will also be coverage in the Courier. We
were offered the money some weeks ago and thought carefully about
it as there is no denying that a ... |
Swishing Event
We are planning a Swishing (clothes swopping) event this autumn
in a central venue in Crediton. Further details will emerge over
the next couple of newsletters but please start saving your
unwanted clothes, shoes and handbags that are in a good, reusable
condition to bring al ... |
We also have plans to work as closely as possible with our two
supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons to do what we can to reduce their
wastage of food and packaging. If any Sustainable Crediton
supporter has knowledge of practices at the supermarkets that can
be improved please contact me.
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The Waste Action
Group will be assisting with the recycling at the Food
Festival this summer. Volunteers who would like to assist
for a couple of hours monitoring the collection points and
encouraging people to use them correctly and efficiently would be
very welcome.
Last year a lot of po ... |
We are working with other pioneering microgenerators around the
country to lobby the Government regarding their unjust treatment of
early adopters of renewable energy. Letters have been written to
our MP and Ed Miliband among others to attempt to get the pioneers
included in the new feed-in tariff ... |