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The food that we eat has a significant, but often hidden,
environmental footprint. Producing it requires evergrowing quantities of land, water, energy and chemicalinputs – which has serious consequences for the
environment.

Meat and dairy production has a particularly large
impact. Intensive farming methods in Europe, which rely
on high-protein animal feeds, have created a global food
chain in which UK poultry, pigs and cattle depend on feed

SLAPTON SANDS BEACH CLEAN UP

Saturday 28th March, 11am at the Memorial car park -

the one midway between Strete Gate and Torcross

Please bring gardening type gloves.

EIGG ELECTRIC

SHFOE member Malcolm Baldwin will be giving a talk and showing his film on Eigg Electric in South Brent Old School Hall at 7.30 on April 1st.

FOSSIL FOOLS DAY ACTION
International Climate Criminal to face trial in Totnes!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to SHFoE'S March newsletter.

AGM Report: A group of us gathered in the Guildhall Totnes to hear FoE's Roger Higman talk

on climate change and biodiversity. There'll be a report on our website soon.
Ian Blackwell was elected Treasurer, Kate Wilson Coordinator and on the committee are Ella

Dangerfield, Steve Melia and Malcolm Baldwin. If you would like to be more involved, please

let us know.

Membership: Membership fees are now due unless you joined SHFoE at Satish Kumar's talk last

SOUTH HAMS FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AGM
8pm Tuesday February 10th
Totnes Guildhall

Roger Higman, Campaigns Coordinator at Friends of the Earth will talk about the Climate Change Act means for Government, Businesses and all of us in our everyday lives.

SHDC will soon produce new DPDs relating to market towns and rural areas. The Totnes and Dartington DPD which was at the Preferred Option Stage has been shelved - we don't really know why - and a new DPD will be written which will be issued at the same time as DPDs for Dartmouth, Kingsbridge, Ivybridge and the Rural Areas. These DPDs are intended to allocate sites for employment land and housing and our concern is that any other local considerations will not be included. Below is SHFoE's response to the invitation to contribute to the potential content of the new DPDs.

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us on our Big Ask campaign. Together we have finally got a strong Climate Change Law.

Parliament voted on 28 October for the world-beating legislation after a 3 and a half year campaign by Friends of the Earth. The first of its kind in the world, the Law is a huge step in the fight against climate change.

The Law commits the Government to 80 per cent cuts in the UK's emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, including emissions from aviation and shipping, and with annual targets along the way to keep us on track.

South Hams FoE is organising a week long action against packaging and other waste.

Waste Not Want Not Week runs from 4th to 12th October and there are events being organised locally by SHFoE, Transition Town Totnes, The Green Party, SHDC and others.

Tuesday 7th October 8pm at the Ariel Centre at King Edward VI Community College in Totnes there will be a Panel Discussion on Reducing Packaging Waste. Entry is by donation and the panel will be:

Richard Gomme, Devon Community Recycling Network;
Klaudia VanGool, Groundworks UK;
Ruth Edwards, South Hams District Council;

Is it possible to live in the modern world without generating any landfill waste? On Tuesday April 22nd at 8pm in the Methodist Church, Totnes an open meeting of South Hams Friends of the Earth will be addressed by a Totnes man who has come close to achieving this aim.

Since the 1960s, Michael Rose, who is now 65, has been working to reduce the environmental impact of his lifestyle. One aspect of this has been to reduce the amount of waste he puts in puts in the standard waste bin (intended for land-fill) to one milk carton every few months.

The AGM this year will be on Tuesday February 12th, 8.00pm upstairs (there is a lift) at St John's church, Bridgetown, Totnes. Jim Carfrae will be talking about building his straw bale house in Totnes. If you would like to become more involved in the local group, now is a good opportunity to do so. Hope to see you there