Are you worried about climate change? Do you live in East Devon? Here are some ways to take climate action in East Devon.
Take action in how you shop. Take action in how you travel. Take action by joining groups. Take action by supporting each other. Take action in non-violent protest.
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Mother Earth, Exmouth
Mother Earth is an independent family run business providing everything you need for a healthy lifestyle and to support your wellness.
Health foods and drinks, body care and vitamins and supplements
Mother Earth 1-3 Imperial Road, Exmouth EX8 1BY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motherearthexmouth/ (236)
Ganesha Wholefoods, Honiton, Axminster, Sidmouth
Our three wholefood shops offer a comprehensive range of quality health foods at competitive prices: compare the prices of our dried fruit, nuts, seeds, pulses, grains, herbs and spices with just about anyone else! All three shops are certified by Organic Farmers and Growers for packing and retailing of organic foods.
Ganesha Wholefoods cater for restrictive diets, particularly sugar, dairy, wheat and gluten-free.
You will find a complete range of eco-friendly household supplies as well as cruelty-free toiletries and skincare. We now offer a great range of refills including Ecover, Bio-D & Faith in Nature.
https://ganeshawholefoods.co.uk/
Fillfull, Ottery St Mary
If you're thinking of going zero waste or trying to reduce plastic use, Fillfull is here to help. Fillfull is an eco shopping and refill experience (also known as a zero waste or plastic free shop) which opened in the lovely town of Ottery St Mary in East Devon in August 2018. It was set up to help the local community move a step closer to using less, wasting less and reusing more.
Fillfull 2 Mill Street, Ottery Saint Mary EX11 1AD
In My Back Yard, Branscombe
In My Back Yard is a friendly network of independent, small-scale food producers, wholefood suppliers and residents working together to build a more resilient, nourishing and community-centred food system for the local area.
By working together, we support local producers with fairer prices, reduce food miles and overheads, revitalise the local economy and increase resilience to shocks in global markets.
Orchard Wholefoods, Budleigh Salterton
Orchard Wholefoods is a health shop which has been trading in the lovely East Devon town of Budleigh Salterton for 18 years.
In our high street shop we sell a wide range of health foods, organic vegetables, gluten free products and loads more. We sell a lot of supplements, essential oils and toiletries. The brands that we stock include Solgar, Nature's Aid, Vogel, Jason. Weleda and lots more, too many to list here.
https://www.facebook.com/Orchard-Wholefoods-364906896926729/
Orchard Wholefoods 16 High Street, Budleigh Salterton EX9 6LQ
Totally Locally - Axminster
The need to support Axminster’s small independent traders has never been more urgent. The coronavirus pandemic has carved deep into the resilience of traders who were already struggling to cope with the challenges of recent years.
This website has been created by Totally Locally Axminster to drive the cause – and to raise awareness of just how much you can buy in this great little town of ours.
Please get behind your local businesses in what for some is a battle for survival.
Local Independent Businesses in Axminster have joined forces to shout about the importance of spending local and the contribution that can be made to our local economy. Making Axminster a better place for all!
https://www.totallylocallyaxminster.co.uk/
Wild Honiton
Wild Honiton is a two-year project aimed at improving the green space and residents’ connection to green spaces within the town of Honiton. Led by the Wild East Devon team, the proposed project will look to embed the Nature Recovery Network principles within the EDDC Council Plan and in various Service Plans in a town in need of a natural boom and the new home of EDDC. Wild Honiton will build on Wild East Devon’s Wild Exmouth project and proposes a strategic green space initiative that could be replicated across the district’s other towns.
https://eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside/wild-honiton/
Transition Exmouth
Transition Exmouth's Mission:
To strengthen the community's responce to Climate Change, inequality and shrinking supplies of resources, including energy, water and land, by building long term town resilience, preserving biodiversity and reducing carbon emissions.
Our Exmouth Our Planet
http://www.transitionexmouth.uk/index.htm
Sidmouth Plastic Warriors
Welcome to Sidmouth Plastic Warriors, a group started in January 2018 with the purpose of reducing plastic waste in Sidmouth, clearing up what is already here and helping to push forward change locally, nationally and globally.
Do please visit our Facebook page and join us in whatever way suits you – clearing up with a group (see our events page) or posting results of your own clear ups, let us know about what you’re doing to reduce plastic waste, become a keyboard warrior (use the hashtag #plasticpollution to make your posts searchable by other keyboard warriors who will like and share your posts about plastic waste) or just send us some cash! Anything raised will be poured back in to schemes to reduce plastic waste in the town.
http://sidmouthplasticwarriors.org/
XR - Seaton
Tackling the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency in East Devon and beyond.
Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimise the risk of social collapse.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XRSeaton (126)
