News from Bangalore
SSB Trustee, Laura Denning, is currently in Bangalore (India), undertaking a month long project with local art students, exploring the water crisis in the city and developing problem-solving strategies through…
Permitted development for shale gas exploration – open consultation deadline October 25.
You may wish to add your voice to the consultation on the principle of granting planning permission for shale gas exploration development through a permitted development right and to making…
Ta -da! … the new solar powered compost tumbler…
It’s in action NOW. So come down to the Marsh with your garden waste and see it in action. The electric trommel (compost sieve) was made by Richard Mumford to…
Volunteering opportunity at Shipley Bridge
Shipley Weekend – Are you able to come along to help the Archaeologists and Dartmoor National Park Rangers at Shipley Bridge, South Brent? – Grid Ref: SX 680 629 On…
Brent Bees….
We have heard that a local beekeeper needs to relocate three beehives – really to a place where the bees will be undisturbed and also the beekeeper can visit without…
Talking Rubbish – A New Group is Launched!
SSB’s Talking Rubbish Group has had two lively meetings in May and June. We discussed all things to do with rubbish – particularly plastic pollution and how we can reduce,…
Guided walk in Penstave Copse, Sunday 3rd June 2018
Guided walk in Penstave Copse, Sunday 3rd June 2018 This was the first walk of this kind, which the ‘Wood Group’ has organised, and it went splendidly. We did everything…
Sustainable South Brent AGM on 19 April 2018
Sustainable South Brent AGM at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. The AGM will be followed by a talk on ‘Energy Storage – Past present and future’ by Joddy Chapman: Recent…
Talking rubbish
Thanks to Dan Taylor and Hayley Russell who gave us a thought provoking presentation on ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’. The fifty or so people at the meeting were keen to…