After a busy year, taking part in 11 successful events, we're
having a rest over Christmas.
Our next
meeting, to plan for 2012, will be a day time one on the 12 Jan
[though we're already booked for 5 Community Markets in the summer
and a couple of catering sessions] We try to alternate day ... |
We wish everyone a happy Winter Solstice, Christmas and New
Year!
We will have decorated the WEN tree at the Crediton Christmas Tree
Festival - I hope many of you came to look at all the
wonderfully decorated trees from so many organisations and groups
in the area. Our theme was 're-use and ... |
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In Britain we burn and send to landfill millions of tonnes of
bread, fruit and vegetables that could be eaten by farm
animals. It's a massive waste of resources and also increases our
reliance on destructive soy for animal feed, contributing to
deforestation and people in South America being t ... |
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After years of pressure from The Wildlife Trusts and other
groups such as the RSPB and a huge amount of public support,
the Marine and Coastal Access Act of 2009 promised us an
ecologically coherent network of 127 Marine Protected Areas
around the coast by 2012.
So are we any closer to achi ... |
We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to
safe levels if carbon dioxide emissions begin to fall within
the next two decades and eventually decrease to zero. That is the
stark message from research by an international team of
scientists, led by the University of Exeter.
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If you glimpse a silver streak flashing past, wearing a high
visibility jacket, it'll be me on my new Cyclamatic electric
bike! The battery is one of the newer, lighter (Lithium) ones, and
the manufacturer's claim it'll do about 30kms on one charge.
I've been making regular trips into Crediton ... |
This is a voluntary post that requires a few hours of time each
month on a regular basis putting together and sending out the
Sus Cred newsletter from contributions sent in by Sus Cred
supporters and Action Groups.
A home computer and the ability to co-ordinate and manage
material sent by e ... |
Paula Mossman has decided to withdraw from the Core Group on
which she has served for 4 and a half years. She also plans to
handover the monthly newsletter which she edits once we have found
a replacement editor.
She will remain active on the Waste Group and will be involved
in 3 forthcomi ... |
Many thanks to Mike Brett for filming and then producing this
very professional film of our waste plastic collections in
Morrison's car park.
The community from Crediton and the surrounding area can bring
plastics not currently collected by the kerbside recycling lorries
to the recycling po ... |
Solarsense are pulling out all the stops to install as many
members as possible before the deadline of 12th December. As
of the 25th November, 57 systems have been installed with another 6
planned before the end of the month. If you are only just
being or just about to be installed, please do not d ... |
Please take part in two simultaneous email actions and tell your
MP and the government that renewable energy support should go
to clean, sustainable real renewables, such as sustainably sited
wind, solar and tidal energy, and not to destructive biomass and
bioliquid electricity (eg palm oil sourced ... |