News and stories
Read about latest news, updates, and sustainable stories with our blog
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Councillors Provide Feedback to Inform Symposium and Support Pack
Sustainable South Hams has had conversations with more than 30 town and parish councillors to help design an upcoming Climate and Nature Symposium for local representatives.
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Communicating Climate and Nature through Community Events
Our last Changemakers meeting focused on how we communicate climate and nature change through community events.
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Shareshed Saves More Than 275 Tonnes of Carbon
Shareshed, the world’s first mobile library of things, has so far saved more than 275 tonnes of carbon with their innovative borrowing scheme.
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Street Compost Club Looks for Pilot Sites
Street Compost Club is a new project that brings neighbours together to collectively create compost from their food waste in a fun, practical and hygienic way, which can then be used in their gardens and planters to grow more food and flowers.
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Community Composting - a Whistle Stop Tour and Home Compost Demo Site
Often the Sustainable South Hams compost mentors will come out to communities to share the love for compost, but last week, a group of compost enthusiasts from Dartmouth and Totnes did a tour around several of the fabulous community sites that exist in the South Hams.
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65-acre Community Woodland To Be Created at South Brent
With the support of the Government’s Trees for Climate Land Acquisition Fund, South Hams District Council have purchased a 65-acre site to be transformed into a community woodland, orchard, and market garden.
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Kingsbridge Nature Festival Returns for its Second Year
Kingsbridge Nature Festival in an event organised by Kingsbridge Climate Action to bring the local community together for nature.
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Successful Second Water Vole Reintroduction into The River Gara
The Habitat Group have just completed the second of four water vole releases into the River Gara.
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Repair Cafes in South Hams
Repair cafes offer a refreshing and sustainable alternative to consumer culture by fostering a community spirit and promoting environmental responsibility.
