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Tell Sid, shares to be offered in Totnes Renewable Energy Society!

Totnes Renewable Energy Society

Totnes Renewable Energy Society shares are set to be offered to the public. They will only be for the denizens of Totnes and its environs, and it promises to be one of the biggest community project undertaken in Totnes. Plus it claims to offer a great rate of return for investers. How’s that for combining the sensibilites of the 80s, 90s and noughties!

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'Supergrid' would put South West on Europe's renewable energy map

Cheesden Lumb Mill gives way to wind power

It’s always windy somewhere, so the saying goes. And South West MEP Graham Watson is keen to plug into that windy-ness to create a Europe-wide Supergrid which would allow energy from renewable sources from throughout Europe to be transfered to where it was needed. It would allow renewable energy firms here in the South West to plug into this market, he says

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More greenhouse gases and fewer affordable homes at Sherford development says South Hams FoE


Any changes in energy efficiency and affordable housing levels at a development at Sherford, the planned new community between Plymouth and Brixton, has been condemned by South Hams Friends of the Earth.

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Devon County Council up for green Ashden Award for RE4D scheme

Devon County Council is up to win £30,000 for its Renewable Energy for Devon scheme in the local authority section of the famed Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2009, which take place in London on Thursday, June 11.

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The Geoff Clams column: Premiere Time

•This is a new regular column on the adventures of Geoff Clams

On an impossibly sunny and happily recent Thursday, it so happened that I caught the local premiere of John Tomkins’ new feature-length movie, Like an Angel, at Torre Abbey’s Spanish barn.

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See how Totnes low-impact community Landmatters live on their open day

The Landmatters community, who live in low-impact dwellings near Totnes, are opening their doors to demonstrate transition and permaculture in action on Sunday June 7.

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Crazy Arm talks to PRSD about Born To Ruin album

The PRSD caught up with Plymouth-based alt-rockers Crazy Arm ahead of the release of their debut elpee Born To Ruin and the Broken by the Wheel single. Here’s what frontman Darren Johns had to say for himself.

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