Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 10
Happy New Year to Everyone,
Hope you were able to enjoy the recent snow and that it did not
impact your holiday plans adversely. Here is an article about why we have experienced
such extreme cold so early in the winter. It may provide you
with ammunition to counter the climate sceptics who say that
this recent cold spell is an example of why climate change is
not happening!
This month we have a number of opportunities for you to get
involved with the work of Sustainable Crediton. Could you
volunteer to help with the Clothes Swop Day in March, have
fun attending the next Seasonal Supper or help with distributing
copies of Positive News occasionally to cafes in the town
centre? Do you have links with a local school that would help us
expand our Education Group? Or if you have just a few
minutes available, NOW, while you are at your computer, could
you support three important national 'Campaigns' to help make our
world a better place to live for all.
None of this is onerous. It requires at most a few of hours of
your time. It is however easy to ignore these requests and
hope someone else will do it instead! Please make 2011 the year
that YOU join us in making a difference, however limited the
time you can give. Thank you.
Paula, Editor
| Dates for your Diary |
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| 19th January | | | 22nd January | | | 28th January | | | 29th January | | | 7th February | | | 27th February | | | 12th March | | | 23rd March | |
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| News Highlights |
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Quietly, globally, billions of bees are dying, threatening our
crops and food. But a global ban of one group of pesticides
could save bees from extinction.
Four European countries have begun banning the poisons, and some
bee populations are recovering. But chemical companies are
lobbying ha ... |
Around half of the fish caught by fishermen in the North Sea are
unnecessarily thrown back into the ocean dead due to crazy EU
regulations which are meant to conserve fish stocks. Over 300,000
people are supporting Hugh's campaign. If you want this
senseless waste of food to end, please join t ... |
Have you read the fantastic quarterly newspaper Positive News?
It documents all the wonderful but often
unsung and unreported things that are happening around the world
to make it a better place. It has been
going for some years and recently started a section devoted to
Transition News.
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In April 2011 the EU, backed by the world's drug industry,
intends to bring in legislation to control the strength of all
natural health supplements that can be sold in the UK and Europe
and to ban some entirely. This is supposedly being done to
regulate health products to 'safe' dosage levels ... |
We are reviving the Education Group.
Penny Westlake from the Crediton Learning Community is sending
out a questionnaire for us to all the local schools. We hope
the responses will give us a contact in each school who is working
on sustainability issues and enable us to know what individual
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Just to remind you that we have a data projector and also now a
portable screen which can be borrowed by any member of Sustainable
Crediton.
Also the presentation about climate change and peak oil which
was shown to Mid Devon, with supporting notes, can be used by
members to show to local g ... |
Transition Exeter are hoping to run a weekend on Training for
Transition. This would cover theory and practice, personal and
community aspects. The course has been rated very well by people
who have attended in the past.
There are no definite dates yet but if you think you might be
interest ... | |
We have received lots of interest from local and national PV
installers to our pre-tender questionnaire. It is apparent
that there is potential for a real group discount if we can get a
few householders involved with our project. We have short
listed to five installers and we plan to issue a tender ... |
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“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid”
Lady Bird Johnson