Don't forget to consult Crediton Local Produce to find out how to
access yummy and healthy local food and other produce. The
site is evolving all the time - it's now easier to locate
individual items. You can sign up for email notice of monthly
special offers too.
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"We Love Knobbly Veg " campaign is being supported by the
National Trust and Delicous magazine. They have teamed up to
front a national campaign that aims to get supermarkets
selling fruit and veg in all shapes and sizes.
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The New Home
Front Report commissioned by Green MP Caroline Lucas and
launched last month, draws parallels between where we are now
and the late 1930s. Today, many groups across the UK,
including WEN are leading the way to a new Home Front.
Download the WEN Three Tonne Club handbook.
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The Office for National Statistics ONS is developing
new measures of national well-being. The aim is that
these new measures will cover the quality of life of people in
the UK, environmental and sustainability issues, as well as
the economic performance of the country. To develop
better measu ... |
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Add your voice to the The Great Cotton Stitch Up campaign, and
join the campaign for cotton trade justice.
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Some really good news to report this month
and proof that people power is making a huge
difference.
If you want to see more good news like this in future
please register to receive the campaigning emails from
these organisations and then add your support. If you have
never done this before ... |
It would be good to think that all members
of Sustainable Crediton were banking ethically. However,
I suspect that a lot of you may still be banking with the
big banks - those 'too big to fail' which received our
money to keep afloat and are still receiving hidden subsidies.
Time to move your ... |
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When Paula received an invitation to test drive the
new electric vehicle, the Nissan Leaf, I jumped at the
chance!
So I rolled up at the Nissan dealership at Marsh Barton
and joined the queue of people waiting to have a go. Whilst
I
waited, I was shown the showroom model and given all the ... |
Two members of the Core Group met with Mel
Stride MP on Friday 11 February. We handed over two
petitions - one 'Save our Forests' and the other to support
Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall's fish discards campaign [perfectly good
fish thrown back in the sea because of stupid regulations].
100 sign ... |
We are making good progress with our project to gain group
installation of photovoltaics at a reduced price. There are
currently 24 people on the 'seriously interested' list
and others who are pretty interested or definitely want to
go ahead later.
Tender documents were issued in January to five ... |
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38 Degrees, the campaigning organisation who
famously organised the successful petition to save our
forests, is running a campaign to Back Renewable Heat.
Currently only 1% of our heat energy comes from renewable
sources, but 47% of UK greenhouse gas emissions come
from heating. That means half the ... |
At present Crediton
Tree Group (CTG) are investigating the possibility of planting 2 or
3 trees on a grass verge at Cockles Rise, but MDDC Housing Dept.
which own the land, say that there is no money for maintenance and
they won't agree to let us do this and they won't do it
themselves. But w ... |