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The first ECO HUB Sidmouth launched its first fortnightly sessions on Saturday – and it went very well, with residents interested in the Exeter Community Energy’s offer of help in retrofitting their homes for more energy efficiency.  Several also signed up for the CAPS/Town Council’s free thermal imaging surveys – whereby we can see how efficient a building is in… Read More »Sign up for the CAPS/Town Council’s free thermal imaging survey!

A message of cheer for the New Year from the organisers of the Eco Hub Sidmouth: You may have noticed in articles in the Sidmouth Herald, in postings on the CAPS website and on social media, and in the CAPS newsletter mention of an Eco Hub being trialled in Sidmouth.  Following the Pop-up in the… Read More »ECO HUB Sidmouth launches fortnightly sessions!

In their final edition of the year today, the BBC Radio 4 series Rare Earth gave us several “reasons to be cheerful“, where they asked if 2025 could be a year of progress on climate change and the nature crisis. And however tricky it might be to make predictions, the answer from everyone in the studio was… Read More »Reasons to be cheerful in 2025!

This week’s Imagine newsletter from The Conversation gives a ‘festive countdown’ looking at twelve stories. Here we look at their stories in short – and add equivalents from both the CAPS archive and the goings on in the Sid Valley and beyond from the last twelve months: 1. Conservation works. Often, it really works. After analysing 665 trials… Read More »Thinking globally and acting locally over the last twelve months…

The UK has gone through the wettest 18 months on record, as climate change brings more extreme weather. It might seem counter-intuitive, then, that the world is running out of water. In fact, three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in the last three decades, according to findings released this week in a new report by the UN Convention to… Read More »“Regenerating land is a win-win, for humans and their ecosystems.”

What exactly is an ‘eco-hub’? Well, schools are doing it as many feel Eco Hubs are the future and many councils see them as ‘pop-up’ places to talk climate change and biodiversity. So, would an eco-hub for Sidmouth make sense? Exmouth has got it’s Community space at Sideshore – but, at least initially, it’s being… Read More »ECO-HUB Sidmouth launches!

How do we get from climate awareness… to climate action? If we are all reaching out on climate issues, we need some bold and practical ways forward, because a lot of people are not happy that “Keir Starmer’s climate advisers say we will need to change diets and fly less – especially after the PM insisted climate… Read More »Changing communication about climate change: from a story about science to a story about people.

The Prime Minister has just officially launched the UK-led Global Clean Power Alliance which aims to meet COP28 commitments to triple renewable energy.  Meanwhile, at the COP29, China, Trump and the EU, each go their own way, over green vs. stranded fossil assets. Here’s an excerpt from that piece, chosen by a CAPS observer: China,… Read More »‘China, the EU, UK and Brazil will stand out as global climate leaders.’

It’s increasingly clear that “climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion are not isolated problems”. And that includes in the West Country, with Dorset putting on its own climate change conference last week, in an event which looked those interlinked issues, from renewable energy and carbon capture to the circular economy and sustainable transport. Meanwhile in Azerbaijan, the COP29… Read More »Devon @ COP29

Two weeks ago The Conversation’s Imagine newsletter looked at “our hot, lonely, plastic planet”: By the end of 2024, nearly 200 nations will have met at three conferences to address three problems: biodiversity loss, climate change and plastic pollution. Colombia will host talks next week to assess global progress in protecting 30% of all land… Read More »“Climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion are not isolated problems”