CCA Newsletter Issue 31
Hi Everyone,
Our headline item this month is of course our Crediton Counts event
on October 24th. If you want to make a difference to the
whole Climate Debate NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. Be part of
this worldwide push to make every Government sit up and
listen to the views of ordinary people. Please be with us on
October 24th, have fun and make your voice count!
On a local level there are also some practical ideas in
this issue to reduce your own carbon footprint. We now have ethical
bio diesel available
in Crediton, an easy win win solution to reduce emissions
and pollution. And at no cost you could join the 10/10 project
to reduce your household emissions by 10% during
2010. Whatever our starting point, we can all do a little
more to cut our personal carbon footprints.
Lets all get involved, work together and show our community
cares.
Paula
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| 19th September |
Dee Ross attended this event. Below is an extract from her
report on the day:
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| News Highlights |
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We are currently working on several different projects and we
always need more members so please join us.
Local
Food Directory We are looking into setting up a local food
directory with a view to making local food more accessible and
enabling small producers especially to sell directly to
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The Government has a fresh opportunity to help the UK reduce its
reliance on imported soy to feed farm animals. Tell them to
make the most of it!
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Building for their fourteen new affordable units is now
well underway and they will soon be the first cohousing
project in UK to be offering mixed tenure - which CACH is also
aiming for. Hopefully some members will be visiting Threshold
in the future.
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10:10 is the national effort to cut the UK's emissions by 10% in
2010. Please sign-up today. By committing to cut your emissions by
10% in 2010, you will join thousands of individuals and
organisations all actively helping stop climate change by making
simple changes to their lifestyles, homes ... |
If you do nothing else to support CCA this year please
take part in this campaign. Our future depends on the outcome of
these talks in Copenhagen in December. Help us influence
that outcome.
We are joining the world-wide 350 campaign. 350 parts per
million of carbon dioxide in the ... |
CCA are considering applying for a small grant to implement this
project in Crediton.
The Transition Together project forms small, social groups of
friends, neighbours and colleagues and then supports them in taking
a number of effective, practical, money-saving and carbon-reducing
steps. A ... |
As part of the Crediton
Counts event Cyclists for Cleaner
Air will meet in Exeter Road by corner with Park
Road on Sat 24th October 9.55am for 10am.
Please join us. We need 35, or more, cyclists with placards
about cleaner air, safer cycling and less pollution.
After a photo with loca ... |
I've been watching the story of stuff ... a wonderful, clear animation
thats brilliantly researched and a little worrying to hear! highly
recommended.
I've been reading all about natural
beekeeping methods... fascinating stuff! and bees
are surprisingly easy to keep... and ever so important ... |
We were distressed to hear of the recent financial problems
being experienced by Mid Devon Community Recycling. Unfortunately
our planned collaboration with them has had to be put on hold, for
the time being at least.
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The next Energy Group meeting will be in early November after
the Crediton Counts event. The date of the meeting will be posted
on the CCA website and in the next Newsletter.
It has been pointed out by Newsletter reader, Martin
Hodnett, that the news about feed in tariffs is not good
news for thos ... |
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“It is a sobering thought that man, for all his ingenuity and machinations, relies for his very existence on six inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”