Make a note in your diary to attend the 2011 Annual Green Fair. Last year’s fair was a great success, and you can read what happened then in this article.
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NAEG Comments on the Bathing Water Profile.
Loss of European Blue Flag Status for Newport Designated Bathing Water.
NAEG comments to PCNPA on Renewable Energy
PCNPA Officers produced a new Consultation Report to the Authority on 12th October 2011 http://www.pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk/Files/files/Committee/NPA/12_10_11/52-11%20Response%20to%20SPG.pdf
In summary: As a result of NAEG’s comments on the Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) on Renewable Energy, PCNPA Officers have accepted that solar panels and solar photovoltaics are allowed to be installed without planning permission (up to 100% coverage and not to a maximum of 9 sq m as formerly advised) on roofs of a dwelling or a building within the curtilage of a dwelling (even if they front a highway) anywhere within the National Park, including within Conservation Areas (This is conditional upon them not protruding more than 200m from the plane of the roof or the highest part of the solar equipment not protruding higher than the highest part of the roof excluding chimneys)
‘Retrofitting Houses’ talk
RETROFITTING HOUSES TALK BY BRIAN MARK 19/5/11
Newport Area Environment Group is facilitating a series of talks by local experts covering a range of environmental subjects relevant to Pembrokeshire. The first such talk, on 19th May, by Brian Mark on ‘Retrofitting Houses” was well attended by an audience which included several local architects, National Park planners and a former Government Advisor for the Environment.
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PEMBROKESHIRE GREEN FFAIR. 20 Nov 2010
The fair in Newport Memorial Hall was a great success and starred great food and stalls.
Food from Wales – Consultation Response
Consultation Response – from Newport Area Environment Group (NAEG) September 2010
Hydro
Local Exhibition on Future for Electric Cars
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL PROJECT
Electric cars & windmills.
Working with other groups we wish to set up sculptural charge points with information panels and help people to drive small durable electric-hydrogen cars. We aim to set up community owned windmills to feed the charge points. The large profit will be used to set up individual investment accounts; these will give power to the people of Pembrokeshire. We will build renewable fuel stations and non-profit facilities for research and development to help us get off the dependency on Banking & oil.
Energy non-profit History: Set up in 2007 we promote local renewable energy; we set up Fishguard’s first local used-veg oil COMMUNITY fuel pump and free advice on chip fat and diesel cars. (Used veg oil always WANTED for fuel) Join in with the Guardian Angels. Open home Gallery. We are open most of the year for tea with a donation when available, good to phone St Gwendaf Cot Llanwnda Goodwick SA64 0HX
CONTACT US Buzz OR Aerona. T 01348 874922 M 07854701233 or
Email us at us-energy@phonecoop.coopwww.us-energy.org.uk
Come along and see Electric cars, Windmills, solar panels, marine energy and sculptural charge points.
www.us-energy.org.uk See our car, it is a 1975 97% efficient, light family ART car, powered with 100% renewable energy see YouTube film! SOUPORT FROM Transition-Brogwaun, Pembrokeshire county council, Dragon electric cars, and The Techinum. Dawn, Stella, Aerona Buzz, Kevin, Kevin, Emma, Hadee, Peter. PLEASE CONTACT US www.us-energy.org.uk Please look up; See for yourself the future of home energy & transport. Shi Agassi, www.betterplace.com www.nissan-global.com 18% return on your money. £5000 towards a new electric car and 30 million in grants for charging points around the UK!!
PLEASE CONTACT US; IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING AN ELECTRIC / AIR / OR HYDROGEN VEHICLE. HOME ENERGY FREE ENERGY.
As seen on TV Radio and national newspapers
PLUG-IN ON THE 13TH October AT THE TECHNIUM (Pembrokeshire) Come and drive an electric car. FILL UP ON US- ENERGY. Love from your Guardian Angel PLUG-IN at home and fill up with clean fuel.
Contact www.us-energy.org.uk Tel 01348874922 Ask for details of our community day. Thank you. Buzz and Aerona.
Ecotours
The Next Eco Tours are Sunday 28th November 2010, and Sunday Jan 30th 2011.
Mapping a Town : Creating a Community
A radical proposal which the Group is considering taking up in the medium term is the “map a town : build a community” project , which has been tried elsewhere, especially in Scandanavia. The idea is that, especially in a town like Newport, which has such a high proportion of houses occupied by their owners only for a part of the year, we can build a virtual community in the first instance, leading to a better and more integrated real community in future.
One begins by providing a place where a householder can, obviously only if they choose, set out a so-called ‘virtual shingle’ i.e. a posting on a Newport map on the website. In such a posting there would be a standard form to let them say for example their name, tel number, character of occupation, size of property, time in occupation etc. and then a larger box (or more) to allow them to say what they like best (and least) about Newport, and what they think needs to be done in their street/immediate area to improve the environment, services and the community in general.
This allows modern technology to assist with more of a return to the celtic/’gegin’ culture society, which would once have characterised the social dynamic of our community, rather than the noticeably more anglo-norman ‘home castle’ attitude more ‘at home’ in the commuter belt of Surrey.
To get things started the Group is happy to present the following very large scale map of our town, which is big enough to show individual houses and which in future we hope to make fully interactive to allow for the uploading of data.
Robbie Manson