By PRSD, on Saturday, June 30, 2007 | Are you interested in finding out just how future friendly you are?
Here at the People’s Republic we take the sanguine Mr-Spock-one-eyebrow-raised approach to tomorrow, but we’re a bunch of cynics.
Not so over at Every Action Counts, a Defra-led corral of community and voluntary groups. These guys reckon we’re all accountable for the future
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By PRSD, on Friday, June 29, 2007 | The growing importance of ethically aware business is plain for all to see – just have a look at some our sponsors to see what can be achieved.
But according to Envirowise: ‘Significantly, while 83% of South West companies say they view the environment as a “quite important” issue, in reality less than a third
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By PRSD, on Thursday, June 28, 2007 | The summer-long Ocean Project at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, kicks off on Saturday, June 30 with Two-Thirds Blue, a wet and wild weekend of water worship, which includes workshops, talks, live performance and a stunning new dance piece.
The Ocean Project is a multi-disciplinary attempt to ‘take a clear blue look at how the ocean
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By PRSD, on Thursday, June 28, 2007 | Anyone who’s entering a new job in their mid-50s (stand up Señor Brown) has probably spent a bit of time pondering their age. Age Concern, has pondered a little more and produced five priorities for the new Prime Minister to attain before his early and forced retirement (next election).
The old are worse off than
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 - () By PRSD, on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | - () Regen SW is supporting 30 bioheat projects across the region, and three of them are in Devon, one of which is at the MET office. The sites have an interest in investigating the viability of woodfuel technolgies but so far have nothing installed, and hope to generate heat and power from renewable, local, sources.
It’s
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By PRSD, on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | There are still 50 grants worth £50 on offer to schools which take part in environmental volunteering projects in this year’s CVS Action Earth.
CVS, the largest UK volunteering charity, has linked up with the Nationwide Building Society to throws these monkeys (£50s) to the trees – last year more than 5,500 trees were planted,
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By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | If you’re an aficionado of stuffed aubergine roasted on a bed of golden rice, mushroom Provencale or even vegetable strudel, then you could be just the person to nominate the Best Farmers’ Market for Vegetarians.
What to look out for, according to the Vegetarian Society, is: fantastic fresh produce; a wide variety of veggie products
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