Students selected to share their views on climate change for Good Energy
An Exeter School pupil has been selected from almost 1,000 applicants to sit on the Good Future board of a British renewable energy company.
Year 8 pupil Jack is one of six young people selected to share their views on climate change for Good Energy, the UK’s first renewable electricity supplier.
The board is made of up of six secondary school-aged students who will feed into how Good Energy is run and make sure the voices of tomorrow’s leaders are heard.
I have worked as an environmental journalist and climate communicator for many years. Climate change concerns me greatly, as I care deeply for all life on this planet and I have two young daughters who will one day inherit the world we have created. Effective climate action is imperative, and it begins at a local level.
Although I have worked on a national and even global scale advocating for climate action, local community has always been at the heart of what I do -it’s where I started out and I am on the committee of a local community group and have been a school governor for...
The leading online safety charity, SWGfL, unveils Edtesa, an online platform offering UK businesses and organisations a suite of digital tools to assist in online safety practice whilst also supporting the development of healthy, positive work environments.
Following years of careful research, the two tools being launched with Edtesa are:
Dashup: an anonymous communication system that allows staff to send SMS messages and online forms to management. If a member of staff has a concern or wishes to highlight an incident, they can report it without worry.
Logistics business Gregory Distribution has continued its drive towards a more sustainable and environmentally friendly operation by installing its first Bio-LNG (liquified natural gas) refuelling station.
Last year, the company began a trial to test the suitability of Bio-LNG to replace diesel in its fleet of more than 1,000 trucks – initially running seven Volvo FH LNG 6x2 tractor units as part of its operations in Bristol and Magor.
The success of that trial has now seen the company make the next move, installing the station – owned and operated by Gasrec – at its...
During the pandemic, Devon’s residents have appreciated the green spaces around their churches like never before and now Devon CPRE is inviting churches of all denominations to enter this year’s competition to find the ‘Best Churchyard’ in the whole of the county.
Following a year with little to celebrate, Devon CPRE applauds the volunteers helping to maintain and ‘green up’ Devon’s churchyards. During the challenging months of lockdown, many churchyards have become real sanctuaries for the local community - not just for churchgoers. In some places, they are the only public space...
My mission to sell 1 millions copies of my self-published book and to donate 50% of the profits to my chosen charities: Tree Nation, Whale & Dolphin conservation, Hope For Life, Water Aid, Forgotten Women, International Animal Rescue and smaller Animal rescue centres.
The beautiful land of Amazonia suffered an ecological and emotional demise after being invaded by the Mopheads. Siegfried, the dwarf from underground crystal caves and friends who live upon the land, devise a plan to restore love and light to their world. Meet with walking and talking trees, inter-dimension...
Exeter’s oldest building is hotting up with an environmentally friendly heating system.
St Nicholas Priory in Exeter is probably the oldest building in Devon, boasting rare Norman architecture, but a brand-new heating system will soon see it brought bang up to date without impacting on the historic structure.
After years of closure, Exeter Historic Buildings Trust took over St Nicholas Priory in 2018, with the intention of painstakingly restoring the ancient building and adapting it for public use. Since reopening, it has become a thriving community venue hosting an...
The owner of two zero waste stores in Exeter says that although some areas of life have seen environmental compromises during the pandemic, there is much to celebrate as people find more ways of eschewing packaging and supporting local businesses.
Sarah Martin, who runs Nourish Zero Waste in Topsham and Magdalen Road has spent the past few years helping to highlight the message about the need to reduce the use of packaging in order to protect the environment. She thinks lockdown has had good and bad impact on the issues at stake.
Creating sustainable plastics is vital for the future of our environment, a new report says .
It calls for urgent research on the impacts that plastic has on the living world right across its lifecycle, from the carbon footprint of the factories that produce it, right through to the impacts it has when discarded into the natural world as waste.
Chemical advances mean it is now possible to produce better, safer plastics, using more eco-friendly production methods, designing plastics that can be fully recycled and even by developing plastics that “degrade on demand” after...
EXETER’s pledge to make the city carbon neutral by 2030 after declaring a climate emergency will be explored at a special conference next month where organisers are calling on business and the community for support.
A wide range of speakers will explore the fields of Energy, Mobility, Sustainability and Capability at the event at Exeter City Football Club, which is free and open to all to attend.
Achieving the goal of a carbon-neutral city can only be achieved with city-wide collaboration and support and the City Council, who declared the climate emergency, have been...
