Torbay is part of a £1 million scheme to recruit a new generation of green-fingered apprentices.
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 Things are going well for artist Clare Flint. Not only did the Call of the Lost exhibition at Exeter Castle create quite a stir, but she also popped along to exhibit at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London, and she’s on the cover of the latest arts+culture magazine (we know which we reckon is the In the first of our on-going features on ethical businesses we talk to Julie Harris from the ICT social enterprise COSMIC. Today we start our campaign to uncover all the ethical, social, environmental and otherwise right-on companies with a conscience. And if you know of any, pass it on. You only have to look down the breakfast cereal aisle to get a glimpse of how all-pervadingly important corn has become, and new research has pinpointed the first time the crop was domesticated to within a snap, crackle and pop. 6 comments - ()The BNP held a secret meeting in Exeter at the weekend after their attempt at a black tie bash at Broadclyst Victory Hall had the kibosh put on it. The sod has yet to be cut, and still the Paignton Library and community hub costs have risen by up to nearly £1 million from £5.4 million (of £5.7 million depending what you’re reading) to £6.33 million. Promoting public transport is fine, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of people and their cars, that’s what green-supremo district and county councillor Gordon Hook is finding in his constituency in Newton Abbot. Energy efficiency in a nursery is child’s play, right? There’s a chance to win a £15,000 energy efficient renovation for nurseries in the Project: Renovate 2009 competition. Devon Beekeepers’ Association sent out a rallying call to everyone involved in the hobby: ‘Bring your bees in for a health check to make sure they are not harbouring disease’. Public meetings are being organised for the Devon Primary Care Trust to explain plans to merge surgery for oesophago-gastric cancer from Exeter and Cornwall at Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital. The move caused controversy as those who had been treated at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital did not want to see the local service lost. Children’s medical research charity Sparks wants to start up a support group in Exeter and is looking for volunteers. The Transition exhibition, which started life in the holding cells of Exeter Castle, has made its way to the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London. It features part two of Volkhardt Müller’s response to the prison spaces: Cell (which explores etchings, class, and the ownership of space – we reckon). The piece at Bargehouse is a The Age of Stupid campaign is certainly managing to galvanise would-be environmental campaigners, but laudable as it is, it doesn’t sit that easily with granddaddy to the transition movement Rob Hopkins. |
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