Here is a selection of articles written by or on behalf of CABH including those published in The Cottage magazine.
Follow the links to read on this website or download pdf versions to read and print.
Bringing the Climate Home: Big Ideas, Local Action in Bovey Tracey
If you think climate change is just about polar bears, far-off wildfires and melting ice caps, think again – it’s also about potholes on our lanes, soggy summer barbecues, and whether your tomatoes ripen before the slugs get them. But here in and around Bovey Tracey, we’re doing more than just talking about the weather….
Download pdf: Bringing the Climate Home
Climate Change Optimism
There are many books and online sites concerning climate change. In this Article we present a selection of books, a podcast and a video story maker, which provide useful and mostly optimistic information on the progress we are making in dealing with climate change.
Download pdf Climate Change Optimism
Building Local Resilience
What can households and local communities do to adapt and to mitigate the climate impacts already ‘baked in’ from past and present carbon emissions? How can we build resilience to these impacts? Resilience in this context is the ability to recover from adverse events quickly and resume normal life.
Download pdf Building local resilience
New Website
We have created a new CABH website. Endorsed and supported by Bovey Tracey Town Council we have set up this website to cover all matters of interest concerning the climate and environmental emergency.
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
To help lessen the impacts of climate change there are many things we can do to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions and therefore our personal carbon footprint. Here are some ideas to consider.
Download pdf Personal carbon footprint reduction
Climate Change Creativity
On Saturday February 10th 2024 Climate Action Bovey and Heathfield (CABH) held an open meeting, at the Phoenix Hall in Bovey, with the aim of generating ideas and local action in response to the coming impact of the changing climate on our local community….read more
Download pdf Climate change creativity – Open Space event
Carbon Offsets
So what is carbon offsetting? It is defined as offsetting your carbon emissions by paying towards projects that remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere elsewhere. Read more…
Download pdf Carbon Offsets
Climate Change And Dartmoor
In November Alex Gandy, at the time the Acting Head of Forward Planning and Economy at the Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA), gave a talk to Climate Action Bovey and Heathfield (CABH) detailing DNPA’s response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency
Download pdf Climate change and Dartmoor
The Value of Thermal Imaging
One member of CEBH has shared his knowledge and experience with us. Here he describes how thermal imaging may help us understand how to more effectively heat our homes.
Download pdf The Value of Thermal Imaging
Electric Vehicles
Some of us, including the Town Council, are considering whether to change our fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric cars or vans.
So, what is it like to own an EV? One of our members sets out some of the pros and cons.
Download pdf Electric powered vehicles
Town Council Update
Four years on from the declaration of a climate emergency by Bovey Tracey Town Council. Two councillors, Dr Debbie Fletcher and Ollie Mills, who have been particularly involved in the follow-up to this declaration tell us about the Council’s remarkable achievements.
Download pdf Bovey Tracey Town Council Climate Emergency Declaration update
Heat Pumps
There have been lots of questions about heat pumps recently, so we asked an expert in the field to tell us more about them.
Whether or not you choose to invest in a heat pump, it is worth investing to ensure your home is well-insulated and airtight as soon as possible.
Download pdf Seven questions on Heat Pumps
Talking Rubbish
What happens to our waste in Teignbridge?
Tracey Fey, acting Recycling Officer from Teignbridge District Council gave a talk about recycling in our area.
Download pdf Talking rubbish -what happens to our waste in Teignbridge
COP 26
For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits called COPs, which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’ to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority.
Download pdf COP26
Bovey Bat Group
At the same time as addressing the local and global climate emergency we are concerned that there is a linked environmental emergency and our wildlife is often under threat. This article is looking at this issue in relation to bats and has been written by Bovey Bat Group.
Download pdf Bovey Bat Group
CEBH Leaflet
I July 2019 Climate Emergency: Bovey & Heathfield (CEBH) was set up with councillor and resident members to support the town council in this endeavour.
Download pdf CEBH initial leaflet
Covid 19 & The Climate Emergency
Can we use the learning from the coronavirus crisis to help tackle the environmental emergency?
Download pdf Covid19 and environmental crisis
Introduction to CEBH
An early article written at the beginning of CEBH (as it was then) and printed in the Cottage.
Download pdf Introduction to CEBH