Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 25
Welcome to the June newsletter,
We have some great events coming up this month starting next
Saturday with a Community Market and another plastics
recycling morning at Morrisons Car Park recycling point. Be
sure to collect up your waste plastic and take it along on your way
to snap up all the lovely local bargains at the Community Market in
Town Square.
And just a week later the Crediton Food Festival and Big Sunday
lunch return for the 4th year with our Food Group offering its
famous salad bar and the Waste Action Group organising the recycling.
Crediton is becoming known as a 'foody' centre so why not take some
time to visit the Festival and find out what all the fuss is
about.
Paula Mossman, Editor
| Dates for your Diary |
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| In case you missed it... |
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| 12th May |
Our May market was a great success, brightening up the Town
Square with plenty of variety includi ... | | 14th May | |
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| News Highlights |
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For details of out next garden visit to see how the fruit and
veg are growing (or not!) contact us.
We hope to arrange an evening session at this time of year
(June/July).
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It is a slow day in a little Greek village. The rain is beating
down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in
debt and everybody lives on credit.
On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through
the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a 100 Euro no ... | |
We hope to hold a public meeting in the near future about
setting up a branch of the 'Plough and Share' Credit Union. For
latest developments contact us. ... | |
Car sharing and a car club may be making progress very slowly as
ways of using cars sustainably, so here's another idea. Whipcar is
a website that enables you to make a bit of money hiring out your
own car when you are not using it, or to hire somebody else's at a
rate competitive with hire co ... |
Big Rise in North Pacific Plastic Waste
The quantity of plastic in the NE Pacific has increased a
hundred fold over the past 40 years.
Waste Milk is Equal to Gas Emissions from 20,000
cars
Waste milk creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of
cars exhausts.
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The Government have set new feed-in tariff (FIT) rates from the
1st August to achieve a 4.5% to 8% rate of return for a typical
well sited installation. The new rate for an upto 4KWp installation
is 16p per KWH. This is still conditional upon the home having an
energy performance certificate grade ... | |
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“What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you, is nothing compared to what lies within you.”
Mohandas K.Gandhi