Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 2

Hello Everyone

Welcome to the May newsletter.

Sustainable Crediton has now launched our new website with its new branding.

Many thanks to Jeff Bellingham and Charles Mossman for all their hard work designing it and loading the content. Do take a look and give us your opinion as well as suggesting that all your friends and relatives log on too. We think it is a very exciting new image aimed at attracting a younger and wider audience.

Below please read about some interesting events coming up in June and July which Sustainable Crediton is organising and/or involved with. We need your assistance and support with attending them and also promoting them too. Over 350 people now receive this newsletter and if each of us just mentioned what is on offer to two other people and also attended ourselves.... well do a bit of maths here and you can really see the power of numbers!!

Paula Mossman, Editor

PS: The original PDF of this newsletter is available here

Dates for your Diary
26th April	Real Nappy Week
8th May	Free Saturday Gardening Workshop
10th May	Energy Group Meeting
21st May	Food & Farming Planning Meeting
22nd May	Free Saturday Gardening Workshop
2nd June	Core Group Meeting
10th June	Food & Farming planning meeting for Food Festival stall
12th June	Transition Network Conference
14th June	Energy Group Meeting
26th June	Sustainable Living Weekend
3rd July	Summer Supper
9th July	Quest Festival

Review of General Election Hustings Event

QE Sixth form hosted the Crediton general election at the Upper School main hall with support fr ...

News Highlights

Food and Farming Group News

Crediton Local Produce Guide We now have a grant from Awards for All so we can get on with work on our Local Produce website. We have been granted £1,960 from the Big Lottery Fund to provide a series of activities which will encourage the consumption of fresh local food, and will teach pe ...

News from Crediton Women’s Environmental Network

We have been pretty quiet lately but we hope to pick up very soon. Look out for our allotment open day events, themed evenings based on a Climate Club for learning about One Planet Living and child friendly daytime meetings. ...

Pension funds and the Canadian Tar Sands - express your concerns

The mission of the Fair Pensions organisation is to promote responsible investment in the pensions and investment industry. Fair Pensions are running a campaign this spring on climate change and investments in the Canadian Tar Sands. Major investors get to vote on tar sands developments at ...

Will we switch to gas made from human waste?

As the UK faces the prospect of North Sea gas running out, could supply problems be eased by using gas made from human waste? ...

Photo Voltaics Case Study - Part 3: Installation

Our installation was planned for the 6th April. It did not go altogether smoothly. A few days before, Solarsense contacted us to arrange for the scaffolding to be erected. The scaffolding company they used (Castle Scaffolding) were not very domestic customer focussed. When they arrived, they starte ...

Tree Group News

We continue to be in touch with MDDC about tree planting in public places, and have spoken to the new tree officer there. We hope to meet her in a month or two, after she has caught up with the backlog which was awaiting her on her arrival. The small plantation at Southfields has now been t ...