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The Impact of COVID-19 on Cornish Businesses and Environment

Author: Dr Dave Rymer Lessons from China As the epicentre of the outbreak, the first country to put in place major lockdown, and now the first country to enter a phase of re-opening for business, how has China fared, and what can Cornwall’s SMEs learn from this? As a result of city- and province-wide shutdowns […]

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Tevi Online with Kim Conchie

Yesterday we held our first online welcome event outlining how our team can support Cornish SMEs through forthcoming events in partnership with select organisations. The menu of events has been designed by Tevi to support businesses to build resilience in the rapidly changing business landscape, and to transition to circular economy practices. For more information […]

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Tevi business PK Porthcurno Wins 2020 Green Award

A Cornish business supported by Tevi, PK Porthcurno (previously the Telegraph Museum Porthcurno) has been announced as the winner of the Association for Cultural Enterprises GREEN AWARD 2020, for their innovative new Planet PK project which launched this spring. Planet PK is an ongoing environmental programme which looks to the future of Porthcurno Valley and […]

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TeviNET: Is your business Tevi-ready?

Please help us! We need as many Tevi businesses as possible to help build our environmental sensor network (TeviSENSE) by hosting one of our TeviNET devices. Almost every Tevi business is suitable and the process is quick and easy. COVID-19 Update: During the current situation, we are still urgently seeking your help! Whether your business […]

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Bodmin Materials Recycling Facility Field trip

Author: Alex Didcock (Tevi Challenge Network Officer) Tevi organised a trip to the SUEZ Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Bodmin this week to provide Cornish enterprises the opportunity to learn how Cornwall’s recycled materials are sorted and processed, and join a behind the scenes tour of the facility. The aim of the trip was to […]

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The potential for ‘shared growth’ in Cornwall

Author: Shuks Esmene, University of Exeter This recent workshop held at Trebah Garden on 20th February 2020 brought together Cornwall-based small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), University of Exeter academics, business-facing delegates from the voluntary sector and community interest companies to discuss ‘shared growth’. Currently, the concept of shared growth is at an early stage of theoretical development. […]

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Advanced Moorings for Environmental Growth

Advance Mooring ECN 3

Format of the day:  29th January at Pennycomequick, Falmouth, was the third meeting of the Advanced Moorings Tevi Challenge Network (CN).  15+ organisations attended the workshop to build on the discussions held in the first and second meetings   The format was a facilitated open discussion between all attendees  Overview of the issue:   Conventional (thrasher chain) swing moorings scour […]

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Food and Drink Waste Challenge Network Update

Author: Amanda Goodwin   We recently convened the second meeting of Tevi’s Food and Drink Waste Challenge Network with 40 people from across 30+ organisations attending the workshop to discuss how to tackle commercial food waste and its environmental and social impacts in CIoS.   The aim of this Challenge Network is to support existing enterprises to become more aware of the environmental, economic and social […]

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