- Insistence upon any new homes/buildings – that energy needs are sustainable.
- Tidal power up the Axe River.
- Seaton sewage farm could be used to produce Bio Gas for a local power station for Electricity.
- Solar panels.
- Local currency – ‘The Seaton pound’.
- More bike friendly town. Council not to renew ‘No cycling’ signs. (Experiment in Europe showed that it works better to rely on people’s common sense & consideration for others rather than making rules & putting up signs – which generates stress when perceived to be transgressed).
- Create a group within a network of one or two roads called ‘Neighbourhood switch’. All Seaton roads could be involved & join to take plastic to the dump. Share produce etc and get to know each other.
- Use a bowl in the bathroom basin, to use less water for morning wash; by throwing it down the loo instead of flushing. Also bath water to flush the loo.
- Better recycling facilities – plastic, foil, and card needed.
- Plastic bag free town. Shared recycling facilities – on a neighbourhood basis. Things that EDDC does not do – building on neighbourhood watch.
- Sustainable carrier bags like Modbury.
- Get the School involved in a local day or weekend.
- Involve children – They are the future, we are too old.
- More local food production encouraged by lower rates. The school to be a leader in example as already famous.
- A drive to get doorstep milk delivery – glass would save on plastics.
- Community chickens.
- Stop talking. Start doing. Share it.
- Too many ideas for a post-it. I will email!
- Communal garden project.
- Community allotments where groups of people share work and produce.
- Create a large number of allotments ASAP within walking distance of the town, and enable people to get going and learn to enjoy growing food together.
- Community food-growing and a few hens for eggs. Involve the children!
- Our population has a limited attention span. If it ain’t fun they won’t care. Make it fun. Just because it is important it doesn’t have to be boring.
- Communicate with the Horticulture Association that runs the Autumn show to encourage people to grow their own. Suggest prizes such as for ‘Kitchen garden’ not just allotment.
- A container gardening talk and demo in the town hall.
- Grow a coppice with hazel ash oak and fruit trees. It can start being cropped in 5 years and will last for 1000 years giving fuel food and timber all through that time.
