Totnes community action
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Totnes.
News[edit | edit source]
The UK’s international commitments on climate and nature could soon become law – and better protect our environment, theconversation.com (Jan 22, 2025) — Climate and Nature Bill (CAN Bill), includes a climate and nature citizens’ assembly- Warm spaces event giving out advice and goods, BBC News (Jan 22, 2025)
- Why improving social housing could be remarkably simple (and affordable), theconversation.com (Jan 17, 2025)
- Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025)
- The challenge now is deciding how to rebuild safely in areas destroyed by fire, Editorial, Los Angeles Times (Jan 19, 2025)
- Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2025)
Video gallery[edit | edit source]
Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]
Food activism[edit | edit source]
- How to set up a squash growing co-op, Shareable, Feb 25, 2019
- Food in Community, rescues and sorts surplus fresh fruit and vegetables, and delivers boxes to charities and community groups in and around Totnes
Community energy[edit | edit source]
Totnes Renewable Energy Society
Towards sustainable economies[edit | edit source]
- REconomy centre Totnes, a workplace for a strong local economy. Home of the Totnes REconomy Project, and a Local Entrepreneur Forum, added 15:19, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- Atmos Totnes, first project to be led by Totnes Community Development Society, an Industrial and Provident Society committed to pioneering community-led development in a way rooted in local economies.
- Local Economic Blueprint highlights potential of community resilience, March 28 2013
Community resources[edit | edit source]
Share Shed, a 'library of things' based in Totnes
Health and wellbeing[edit | edit source]
- Caring Town, local network of public, voluntary and private organizations and groups working together for health and welfare in Totnes & District
- Network of Wellbeing, organisation based in Totnes
Community currencies activism[edit | edit source]
Funding community action[edit | edit source]
Totnes Wellbeing Fund, networkofwellbeing.org
Ethical consumerism[edit | edit source]
Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]
Totnes railway station is situated on the Exeter to Plymouth line, and has trains direct to London Paddington, Penzance and Plymouth, and as far north as Aberdeen. Nearby, Totnes (Littlehempston) railway station is at the southern end of the South Devon Railway Trust which runs tourist steam locomotives along the line that follows the River Dart up to Buckfastleigh. Since the River Dart is navigable to seagoing boats as far as Totnes, the estuary was used for the import and export of goods from the town until 1995, and there are still regular pleasure boat trips down the estuary to Dartmouth. Bus services connect the town to Dartmouth, Plymouth, Torbay and Newton Abbot. W
Cycling activism[edit | edit source]
Community Electric Bikes available! Transition Town Totnes
Education for sustainability[edit | edit source]
Bioregional Learning Centre, located in Totnes
About Totnes[edit | edit source]
Past events
- March 21, 2015, A Land Conference, Totnes
Totnes ( TOT-nuhss or tot-NESS) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Paignton, about 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of Torquay and about 20 miles (32 km) east-northeast of Plymouth. It is the administrative centre of the South Hams District Council.
Totnes has a long recorded history, dating back to 907, when its first castle was built. By the twelfth century it was already an important market town, and its former wealth and importance may be seen from the number of merchants' houses built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Today, the town has a sizeable alternative and New Age community, known as a place where one can live a bohemian lifestyle, though has in recent times also gained a reputation as being a hotspot for conspiracy theorists within the UK.
The 2021 census recorded a population of 9,214, an increase from the 2011 census which gave a population of 8,076.
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