I enjoyed attending the Stockland Stores meeting last night but was disappointed to find out they don’t have plans to incorporate renewable energy into the new community run village shop and adjoining cafe. As they are building this shop from scratch – surely the plans should include using 100% renewables to create the energy needed [...]
Stockland Stores – plans for the new community run shop
Posted March 13th, 2010 by sharon. Comments (3).
My Top 5 Inspirational Women
Posted March 12th, 2010 by sharon. Comments (3).
Fantastic article in the Independent last weekend on the 100 most influential women in the world. Apparently they started with thousands of deserving candidates to whittle down to just 100. Here are five of those distinguished women that I particularly admire:
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Suffragist, 1847-1929
Along with Emmeline Pankhurst, these ladies cannot be thanked enough. Millicent was leader [...]
Extra small condoms for 12 year-old boys go on sale in Switzerland
Posted March 11th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
Just read a discussion about this article in The Telegraph over on NetMums and had to add it to my blog as it’s so interesting following my article from yesterday on how to reduce teenage pregnancies in the UK.
Alexandra Williams reports that “the ‘Hotshot’ condom has been produced after government research showed 12 – 14 [...]
The election run-up: what about women?
Posted March 11th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
Winning the female vote is crucial to winning the forthcoming general election, so much so it’s even been billed the “Mumsnet election”.
High-profile website, Mumsnet recently celebrated its 10th birthday and, with an estimated one million users, political parties have been tripping over themselves to court this group.. The main political leaders have participated in webchats [...]
Supporting Single Mothers
Posted March 10th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
I’m very concerned about Merv (and others) for suggesting that we SHOULDN’T look after the ‘young girls’ in this country who find themselves expecting a baby. Their ‘indiscretion’ involved two people but nature leaves the female one with the responsibility for the child.
I don’t think that young girls have a passport to easy council accommodation [...]
Honiton Hospital Maternity Changes – what do you think?
Posted March 10th, 2010 by sharon. Comments (5).
The Midweek Herald reported on the 17th February that ‘ the hospital’s role will be downgraded to a birthing unit, with new mums sent home the same day – and is such a change is implemented, it will end Honiton Hospital’s long-standing reputation for providing in-patient post-natal care.’
NHS Devon says a change in management of [...]
On the verge of a “historic breakthrough”
Posted March 9th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
Caroline Lucas’ Green party could be on the verge of a “historic breakthrough”: its first seats in the Commons.
It’s the first day of the Green party’s spring conference and politics.co.uk has journeyed to rainy north London to interview the party’s leader, Caroline Lucas. Instead of hordes of environmental activists, the conference centre is swamped with [...]
Old attitudes will not save the planet
Posted March 9th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
THE tough environmental challenges facing the world cannot be met with a ‘business as usual’ approach, a leading environmental campaigner says.
Recovery must not based on the ‘old- school madness’ of economic growth, said Roger Creagh-Osborne, pictured above.
Mr Creagh-Osborne has been selected to fight the South East Cornwall seat for the Green Party in the [...]
UK Aware Event & Bristol Festival of Nature
Posted March 9th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (0).
Geoff (Election Agent & Press Officer for East Devon Green Party) emailed me about a couple of events that could be of interest to ED Greens…….
UK Aware (www.ukaware.com) FRIDAY 16th & SAT 17th APRIL 2010
Taking place in Olympia Two, London, UK AWARE is the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition which offers a platform for:
Organisations [...]
Apple ranks highest among Greenpeace’s top tech companies
Posted March 9th, 2010 by sharon. Comment (1).
As the contented user of a somewhat elderly second hand Macbook, I was pleased to read that the back and forth battle between Greenpeace and Apple which has been going on for years has finally started to fizzle out. In its new report, Greenpeace ranked Apple as its No. 1 company.
The ranking guide gives consumers an idea of [...]