Every time you go online you increase your carbon footprint. Is it possible to be a green surfer?
Somewhere in California (and soon to be in India and possibly Iceland) there are vast tracts of hulking warehouses containing thousands of energy-guzzling servers – it’s farming, but not as depicted in The Archers.
Server farms provide the network to [...]
T’internet Carbon Dilemmas
Posted February 28th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
GREEN PARTY SOUTH WEST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Posted February 24th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
The Green Party South West AGM takes place this coming Saturday in Exeter. Geoff and I will be attending to represent the newly formed East Devon branch. Please leave a comment below or email me if you would like to come along with us. I’m busy on Saturday morning at my daughter’s school gardening club, [...]
Next Meeting of the East Devon Green Party – March 2010
Posted February 24th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
The next meeting of the East Devon Green Party takes place in Exmouth in March 2010. The meeting will be held at Gorfin Hall on Claremont Lane in Exmouth on Saturday 6th March between 2pm and 4pm. All very welcome. Come and find out more about the Green Party, our election campaign and how you [...]
A Fine Cock-a-doodle do!
Posted February 21st, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
Hoping a like minded green (veggie) chicken keeper may be reading this and be able to give a home to one or both of my cockerels. My four year old son Aleck is pictured above holding one of them when they were quite young. We have a stunning pure maran male and a maran x [...]
Campaign to Protect Rural England
Posted February 18th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
I read a letter in the Sidmouth Herald last week from a Mr Tony Dustan-Smith of Manor Road, Sidmouth urging candidates to support the Campaign to Protect Rural England manifesto. Mr Dustan-Smith asks “With the General Election fast approaching, now is the time to ask those who aspire to be our MPs in the future [...]
Honiton Meeting & Sidmouth Stall
Posted February 15th, 2010 by sharon. Comments (7).
Honiton meeting (of our recently founded East Devon Green Party) went well on Saturday, with a few new faces, lovely to see & very welcome especially in Honiton where there doesn’t seem to be much green going on (on the surface!). After our normal business, we started chatting about policies and issues which were of [...]
Who are the Parliamentary General Election Candidates for East Devon in 2010 ?
Posted February 14th, 2010 by sharon. Comments (2).
The 2005 General Election saw five political parties represented:
Hugo Swire – Conservatives won for his second term with 23, 075 votes. This was 46.9%.
The Liberal Democrat Tim Dumper came second with 15, 139 votes and 30.7%
Then Labour’s representative James Court had 7,598 votes and 15.4%
In fourth place was Colin McNamee of UKIP with 3,035 votes [...]
We need More Affordable Homes in East Devon
Posted February 13th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
We need more homes in East Devon. Where should we be building them? What sort of houses should we build, is renewable energy a priority? What do you think, have your say, add your comment on here.
Traffic is biggest polluter
Posted February 13th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
Traffic is biggest polluter
Originally uploaded by Sharon Pavey
Road Transport is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases in East Devon – at 38% according to this article I read in the paper this week. Looks like we’re all producing more carbon per person too.
Natasha Does the Recycling!!!
Posted February 10th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
Natasha recycling
Originally uploaded by Sharon Pavey
We’re getting more serious about recycling in our house now and have set up a new system in the shed. Tasha (aged eight) shows us how we sort out the weekly recycling.