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A ‘think and do’ tank focused on connecting people to climate change and climate change to people.

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After diverting around a flood or three I've just returned home from Newton Abbot, where I put on something of a performance before the Teignbridge District Council planning committee as they debated Inazin Solar's application for a 13.5 Ha solar photovoltaic "farm" on land owned by the Fulford Estate near Gold's Cross Hill, between Tedburn St. Mary and Cheriton Bishop.  Due to Inazin's apparent difficulty comprehending the subtle difference between MW, MWh and MWh/year I have somewhat impudently christened the project "The Fulford Solar Kettle". I was up first, and this is the approximate text of the impassioned speech I then delivered.  I say approximately because I did get a bit excited and thus diverted slightly from my hastily scribbled script on one or two occasions:

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Earlier today a total of around 3000 dairy farmers from around the country got onto a variety of trains and buses for a day trip to London.

According to the Manchester Guardian:

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Hot from the editing suite at The Hub, here's the promotional video the EcoIsland team were displaying on the big screens at the Isle of Wight festival at the weekend:

IOW Festival 2012 Video from David Green on Vimeo.

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David Hunt has a degree in Archaeology, but couldn't find a job here in the UK. Now he lives and works in the city of Lódz in central Poland. There he teaches English as a foreign language! Here he writes a guest blog post for econnexus.org.uk, all about a recent canoeing expedition he took part in along the river Pilica:

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Chris Rogue and Stress Together on the Streets of Exeter

I first bumped into Chris Rogue in cyberspace, when we were both "tweeting" simultaneously using the #OccupyExeter hashtag. Here's an extract from that conversation:

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Exeter Quakers by Jem Southam

On Monday December 5th Exeter Quakers issued a press release. Here it is in full:

Exeter Quakers express their support for the occupation on Cathedral Green

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Andy and Jim discuss social justice and inequality

We here at econnexus.org.uk rather fortuitously found ourselves filming events on Exeter Cathedral Green on the afternoon of Sunday 27th November 2011. After filming a conversation with photographer "Stone" Naylor we then listened to Nicci Wonnacott from the International Women's Arts Group explain why she had helped organise the Women Occupy Exeter "happening".

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Nicci from the IWA group at "Women Occupy Exeter"

Yesterday's post about photographer "Stone" Naylor explains how econnexus.org.uk happened to be filming events on Exeter Cathedral Green on the afternoon of Sunday 27th November 2011.  After talking with Stone we also listened to Nicci Wonnacott from the International Women's Arts Group explain why she had helped organise the Women Occupy Exeter "happening".

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"Stone" Naylor talks to econnexus.org.uk

To cut a rather long story short my partner Kasia is a member of the Exeter based International Women's Arts Group. The group recently created a Facebook page entitled "Women Occupy Exeter", and expressed their desire to "support the 99%" by:

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