News and stories

The Bioregional Learning Centre has created a short film to enable communities to find their pathways to action for adapting to climate change here in the South Hams.

Nature

Adaptation & Resilience

WATER’s approach is to consider the total catchment of the Erme from its source on Dartmoor to the many tributaries that feed it, as one inter-dependent habitat.

Food, Land & Water

Slapton Ley Field Studies Council and National Nature Reserve are holding their annual Research Seminar on Saturday 9th November 2024.

Nature

Education & Engagement

Throughout March 2025 the Saltmarsh Project team will be trialling a range of restoration approaches at the upper fringe of the Dart Estuary shores, around Totnes and Stoke Gabriel.

Nature

Food, Land & Water

Adaptation & Resilience

The Climate and Nature Symposium for South Hams Councillors held in Totnes on 16th October, saw group leaders and councillors gather to find ways to collaborate for climate and nature.

Nature

Adaptation & Resilience

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Travel & Transport

Declarations & Action Plans

Our most recent Change Makers Meeting saw Sustainable South Hams Energy Mentors discuss various aspects of energy efficiency, particularly relating to public buildings, as well as funding options available to community groups.

Energy & Buildings

Our last Changemakers meeting focused on how we communicate climate and nature change through community events.

Nature

Education & Engagement

Energy & Buildings

Food, Land & Water

Adaptation & Resilience

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. 

Nature

Education & Engagement

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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