Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 76
Welcome to November's Sustainable Crediton Newsletter. We have
had a very busy October with three big events to organise. In case
you didn't attend the song writing extravaganza, Give & Take Shop or Repair It event, you can catch up on
what happened in our "In Case you missed it" section below.
As well as our regular action group meetings listed in the
calendar, we have the Pig
Club Open Meeting happening at 7pm on Monday 14th November at
Ashton's Coffee Lounge. Come and hear about our traditional breed
weaners raised in 2016 by local smallholders and find out about Pig
Club plans for 2017. We are keen to hear from people wishing to
join our pig share scheme.
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| 3rd November | | | 7th November | | | 7th November | | | 12th November | | | 14th November | | | 14th November | | | 24th November | | | 28th November | | | 30th November | | | 12th December | | | 18th March | |
| In case you missed it... |
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| 6th October |
Eddy's thoughts about the first work party of the season: First
outing of the wooding year yesterda ... | | 13th October |
Lines, a chorus, and a bridge coming together at Crediton Inn
with Sustainable Crediton as part of ... | | 17th October | | | 23rd October |
Work started hedge-laying the final side of the orchard.
Risk Assessment
Site Induction
Chain ... | | 29th October |
Saturday's first community repair event in Crediton saw fifteen
people bring twenty broken electric ... | | 29th October |
Our latest Give and Take week was held at the Methodist
church hall in Crediton, and ran for seven ... |
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| News Highlights |
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This is the first entry of a blog I'm going to write about
electric cars*.
My story begins at Sustainable Crediton's recent talk on
electric cars. After my speaker dropped out at the last minute, I
was forced to cobble together some (hastily googled) notes to try
and salvage the evening. Fortunate ... |
By now, you have probably heard that Leonardo DiCaprio has a new
documentary about climate change coming out. So how can you watch
it?
The Fisher Stevens-directed documentary will make its television
debut on National Geographic's channel in 171 countries and 45
languages on Sunday, Oct. 30.
Addi ... |
Two recently published e-books can be found in the Sustainable Crediton Library. They are Climate
Change Companion and Sustainable Schools, Sustainable Futures, both
by David Hicks.
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Hello,
My name is Dimitris, I am a Greek
farmer from rural Greece and co-founder of the Origin Club, a
non-profit project of British and Greek social entrepreneurs.
I came across the Transition Network
and its local initiatives in a workshop I did with Naresh from
Totnes few years ago in Greece.O ... |
Have you heard about the campaign to divest from fossil fuel
investments and wondered what it is all about? If so this article from the Guardian explains it all.
The Devon Pension Fund for Devon Councils managed by Devon
County Council is believed to invest a huge £215,549,000 in Fossil
Fuels. The ... | |
The international aviation industry wants to achieve
"carbon-neutral growth" using biofuels. This would almost
inevitably involve palm oil and the further destruction of
rainforests for oil palm plantations in the name of "green" travel.
Please join Rainforest Rescue in speaking out against the
ICA ... |
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