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Greetings Ray,

No-one can predict what is going to happen, but after a Chaotic Phase the Dislocative area could be seen as the bit between a Crisis Phase and a Solutions Phase.    

Greetings Ray

Thanks, I actively support NEF and there have had some good events at Kings Cross. Glad to see Mick Bee is on here. Incidentally, in 2009 my wife and I wrote the Constitution document posted on TTN, I think it stopped at draft for Letchworth but glad it was finally used by TT Hertford. 

Hi Ray

Good to hear from you. Your email was a bit coincidental as I have just spent the last 2 days going through the comments back from my 'bats and green roof' paper and started compiling a list of possible sites to survey this summer. So in answer to your question: Yes I would be delighted to go and see the roof. 

Hopefully me and Justin will meet up with the group soon. Unfortunately, the land we had our eye on has been sold but we are still on the look out for other opportunities.

All the best

Huma

Hi Ray, thanks for the welcome.

I suppose my views don't always fit into a particular box.  But yeah, I certainly support the aims, and deplore the way that the burden of climate change can fall most heavily on people who are least responsible for it.  As for solutions, that's a tougher question.  Even if we actually got our act in order currently, it's quite difficult to lecture China about building coal-fire power stations after we spent a couple of hundred years burning the stuff ourselves as we grew rich.

On the IMF, I must say that haven't really followed recent events in much detail (I have been consumed by moving house in recent months, and this has forced my information-junkie tendencies to decline).  I suppose that Europe has always considered the informal arrangement that the IMF top job is held by a European as a right.  But this could be the last time that a European candidate will be a shoe-in for the role - given their increasing relative economic and political strength, I would expect countries in Latin America and Asia to be more assertive next time in promoting a non-European candidate.  That said, given that we seem to be perhaps less than half-way through a financial crisis in Europe - with Spain and Italy too big to be 'rescued' - maybe it isn't so surprising that other countries were resigned to accepting Lagarde this time around.  But then... given that one has to be seen as 'a safe pair of hands' in order to receive backing at the highest level, one might argue about whether the nationality of the IMF managing director really makes much difference, beyond the obvious symbolism?  I wonder whether people sometimes place too much emphasis on things like this, in terms of how much these things are likely to influence and change the course of events.

Do you think Mandelson could manage another comeback by bagging the WTO job?  And what you make of Labour's prospects in 2015 under Ed Miliband?

 

Hi Ray!

Just found the messages page

I am up for giving a talk on 'waste to food'  if  Transition Herts has a site to do this on (can be allotment or whatever) As I have a community project for this.

Hello Ray, thanks for getting touch.

I'm in Queens Road. I've got a few projects on the go, mostly pipe dreams but a couple have produced physical results.
Sustainability:I have produced a sub irrigated container for ideal growing veg in urban setting. It ensures low maintenance, high yield, uninterrupted watering, low water consumption, low disease and well fertilised crop production. It could be palletised and parked on a concrete driveway, balcony etc.

I have also tried to establish a community workspace for people to come together to make things, sharing space tools and inspiration. It's a slow burner but perhaps members of Transistion Hertford may be interested in helping out.

https://groups.google.com/group/hertford-makerspace?hl=en&pli=1
https://twitter.com/#!/HertfordMake

I would be an ideal group to find a handy person to fix your outdoor lamp.

What do you think? Any suggestions? Can you help?

Thanks John for reminding me! I have kept meaning to find out about whether Freegle is in this area and the fact its got so many members (even quiet ones) is fantastic. I will definetely follow up- me and Freecycle just dont get on!!!

Ray, Freegle is the UK version of Freecycle (less interference from a profit making US body). Its a email & web based group run in local areas. Hertford has nearly 2800 local members although fewer are active.

The main rules are that anything you give or get is free, and legal.

cheers, john