Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 24
Hello to all readers,
The Community Market returns this month in Town Square Crediton.
It is organised by our Food Group and they aim to make it even
bigger and better this year. As a kick start we have a Nissan
Leaf electric car coming to the market on May 12th as the
beginning of a campaign to get a public use electric car charging
point installed in Crediton. Come and shop and while you are
there view the car, talk to its owner and find out just how
versatile electric cars can be, especially if you have
PV panels to recharge them!
This is likely to be my last month as Editor of this newsletter.
After 5 years and 60 editions of being in the hot seat a new
editor will be phased in over the next month or two. May I
thank you all for the kind comments I have received about
the newsletter content over this period. They prove that yes,
someone out there really is reading what I put
together!
With best wishes to all Sustainable Crediton supporters and
thanks for all you do to make our community a better
place.
Paula Mossman, Editor
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| News Highlights |
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If you want to know where things are made [since labels are
often less than informative] so that they can avoid food miles etc,
it's possible to know from the start of the bar code as
follows:
690-692 ... then it is MADE IN CHINA
00 - 09 ... USA & CANADA
30 - 37 FRANCE
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These include having an interactive child-friendly stall at the
Crediton Food
Festival, holding a book swap, midsummer music soiree, slow
food evenings and our 4th annual Teddy Bears Picnic.
There will also be a WEN stall at the Food Group's community
markets with information including copi ... |
Transport Group are delighted that Councillor Kay Bickley from
Okehampton will be bringing her Leaf Electric car to the Community
Market on May 12th. Do come, admire and ask
about Crediton's plans for the recharging of electric
vehicles.
Kay is heading up one of eleven UK 'Team Green Brit ... |
Ashtons Coffee Shop on Town Square in Crediton will give you
used the coffee grounds from their coffee machine if you take in an
empty container. They also leave containers of coffee
grounds outside their main door for people to take away. If they
are spread in a circle around vulnerable garde ... |
Read the latest issue
of JunkMail. It has an article on WAG's
plastics efforts so far:
"Mixed plastic recycling - where
next? Sustainable Crediton and Uffculme Compost Magic have proved
there is a huge public demand for mixed plastic recycling
collection points in the community. UCM have ... |
We have received a few more enquiries for solar panels in the
last month and at least one new order for installation before June
13th. Up to 13th June installations completed under the Sustainable
Crediton Solar Project are entitled to a 5% discount and a 15%
rebate. After the 13th June, the Sol ... |
The latest very impressive 2011 progress report.
Don't forget - if you switch to Ecotricity, Sustainable Crediton will
receive a £25 donation. Please quote the code CCAM
when switching.
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Try not to use too many appliances at once eg Don't put the
washing machine on til you've had breakfast and used the
kettle/toaster.
Wait for a sunny day to put the washing machine on. (Makes sense
then you can do the washing with free electric and hang it out
to dry in free sunshine!)
If y ... |
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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”
Denis Waitley