Devon Car Free Day: Wed 22nd Sept
Devon County Council (DCC) is working with Plymouth City Council and Torbay Council to encourage residents to leave their cars at home and try using a different, greener form of travel on Wednesday September 22nd. The day, coordinated by DCC’s TravelWise campaign is in support of International Car Free Day.
See http://www.devon.gov.uk/devoncarfreeday
The aim of the day is to get people to leave their cars at home, explore other options for getting to work or school and to reduce their carbon footprint.
DCC will be offering sponsored prizes for the winners of the ‘best team’ effort, and ‘the most creative way of travelling using green/sustainable transport’. People have been very creative in previous years and have used sedan chairs, horse and carts, tandems and rowing boats, for example.
Poster available below:
“Eat for Devon”: press coverage
Thank you for taking part in this challenge. Between us, we have already increased our awareness of the issues around using locally sourced food. Local papers are interested in our experiment; we’ve got items in the Teignmouth Post and Herald Express.
“Eat for Devon”: review and feed-back
Please let us know how you got on with this challenge, whether you’ve been eating locally produced food for years and sailed through, or whether you couldn’t get started, or are somewhere in between.
What can we each do next as Transition Group members, to increase local resilience? Will you continue trying to source local food? Please leave a comment.
“Eat for Devon”: celebrate – share a meal
The week’s experiment is drawing to a close. How about arranging with friends or family to share a meal tomorrow to which you each bring a contribution of locally produced or sourced food?
“Eat for Devon”: food swap
How about organising a ‘food swap’ with friends, neighbours or colleagues – if you each swap something you’ve grown in your garden (or windowsill) then you both get more variety.
“Eat for Devon”: half-way through
Hi how’s it going? Is anyone struggling? Is it getting easier or more difficult? Too expensive? Let us know what the issues are.
Haven’t got started yet? It’s not too late! If you could plan just one meal using locally produced/sourced food it will help us to understand more about the challenges involved in this experiment.
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