By PRSD, on Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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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By PRSD, on Thursday, July 1, 2010

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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By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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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By PRSD, on Monday, June 8, 2009
•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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By PRSD, on Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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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By PRSD, on Sunday, May 24, 2009

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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