Does Sidmouth have a resilience plan? Does your household have a resilience plan? 30days30waysUK aims to ‘inspire and empower people of all walks of life to build household and community preparedness and resilience in a world increasingly impacted by climate change and a wide range of risks.’ Home – ★30days30waysUK better Emergency Preparedness through Games… Read More »September is Preparedness Month: #30days30waysUK
Local councils have put together a lot of declarations and policies – and one could be forgiven for being a little cynical about how realistic they are. Exeter City Council, for example, has been under the eye of local investigative journalists for some time now: Exeter Observer – Climate crisis Councils, then, are clearly open… Read More »What are councils doing on climate change?
The CAPS project has been encouraging Sidmouth residents and visitors to complete the online carbon footprint calculator from Carbon Savvy – through the town council’s website, as it also leads to a request for further engagement and an interview. If you haven’t already, give it a go! Climate Awareness Partnership Sidmouth – Carbon Calculator –… Read More »The home carbon calculator
Review of ‘Late Light’ by Jo Earlam, CAPS member “When something in the wild disappears, something in the wild departs from us too.” Just one of the many thought-provoking lines in a new nature book ‘Late Light’, written by first-time published Michael Malay. As an Indonesian-Australian, relocated to and making the UK his now home,… Read More »NEW NATURE BOOK ASKS US TO STEP BACK
There have been several local news stories over the last couple of days – which show the challenge of looking to a positive, low-carbon future: Exeter road changes will increase travel times – Radio Exe Drivers at risk from overgrown verges – Radio Exe Campaign to save train station ticket office heats up – Radio… Read More »Reaching out on climate issues: bold and practical ways forward
James Dyke, associate professor in earth system science at Exeter University, has been to Sidmouth several times over the years to talk about climate change. Here he is writing in the weekend i-newspaper: Is the extreme weather in Europe because of climate change? Yes, and here’s the evidence Our route to safety is stopping burning… Read More »The impact of extreme weather: the impact of climate change
Climate Awareness Partnership Sidmouth – Carbon Calculator – Sidmouth Town Council Sidmouth Town Council is actively involved in trying to help Sidmouth residents understand – and hopefully then reduce – energy costs. This was the council’s first project from last year – which is still very much available: Sidmouth Town Council is offering residents the… Read More »Town Council invites us to try out a Carbon Calculator
A posting yesterday suggested that we need to be protecting our current stock of trees as much as planting new ones – if we’re serious about offsetting our carbon emissions: Should we be planting thousands of trees? – Vision Group for Sidmouth Or as said a couple of years ago, it’s “not just planting new… Read More »To offset or not to offset?
The CAPS social media pages regularly feature pieces from the Climate Action website – a very handy place to go for the latest news on serious, high-level action being taken on climate change: Our goal is to catalyse innovation and facilitate collaboration to accelerate the transition to a global green economy – to help achieve… Read More »News stories from climateaction.org
There’s a lot that isn’t right about ‘green energy’: What do we do with old wind-turbine blades? – Vision Group for Sidmouth There are alternatives, though: Wind power: the future – Vision Group for Sidmouth Besides, we need to be realistic: “It’s more realistic, say experts, to accept that we will never have a source of energy… Read More »“Unless people change their behaviors, we won’t hit 2050 net zero emissions targets.”