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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a
battle that goes on inside all people. He said, 'My son, the
battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy,sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,
inferiority, lies, false pride, ... |
A local organic farmer wants to find a new direction and is
interested in setting up a community farm - causing
great excitement! We have arranged to visit him on 12/12 to
discuss. Once we know more about this we hope to hold an
open information meeting in March with speaker/s.
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CoHousing offers a more sustainable lifestyle - a positive
way of living that reduces your carbon footprint
whilst increasing you sense of involvement and belonging.
Sharing activities, resources and mutual support and retaining
your privacy in a self- contained unit/house it's the
best of bo ... |
CACH had a stall at the Gorgeously Green Day and
there was a surprising amount of interest in cohousing.
We took about eight new names for our email list and spoke
to many more.
My thanks to Hermione Skrine for holding the fort, whilst I
had a break.
Ron Cuthbertson attended a renewabl ... |
You may have noticed the regular column that CCA has been given
in the Courier, Crediton's fortnightly newspaper. Linda Lever has
been doing an excellent job of organising contributions for several
months, but with 2 columns a month to fill more people are needed
to write a piece. If you feel ... |
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As we approach the end of 2008 all of us who are
active in CCA can celebrate what we have achieved
over the past year.
We now have 10 active subgroups or affiliated groups,
including ones on food and public awareness which have
recently been set up, and we have been registered as
a Transit ... |
We have put together a very enthusiastic working group with
the aim of setting up a Community Cafe/Resource Centre in the
old TIC offices at the Old Town Hall.
The group is working on gathering all the
information needed to put together a business plan to get
the project off the ground ASAP ... |
The Energy Group is putting the finishing touches to next
year's programme which will be published next month.
We had a stall at the WEN Gorgeously Green day where
there was a lot of interest from people about their
carbon
footprints. We measured about 20 with the lowest at around a
tonne per adu ... |
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We need to revolutionise the way we power the UK. Energy
from the sun, wind, tides and waves can generate a clean
and long lasting energy supply. Right now the Government is discussing a European agreement on renewable energy - known as the Renewables Directive.
Renewable energy can can help to tac ... |
Is there someone with a transit type van who
can assist with collecting fruit trees on 23rd Jan 09
from Talaton.
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We are a small group who have been working together for
about a year.
During this time we have undertaken a project to encourage
fruit tree planting in peoples' gardens (81 trees being
planted in January), organised for an area attached to
allotments to be planted with trees ( 10 trees
bei ... |