Hi guys

Recently I had a lovely conversation with Katrina, who has launched Local Skill Swap. It is quite young but growing, and differs from other swap and time bank type services. In particular it is designed to make the process of sharing services in communities easy and the website seems to be nicely functional. It is a national service, centring on hubs of interest in local areas and groups are steadily being added around the country, as people engage in their area. If you think it useful,… Continue

Today is the last day of… Continue

Last night I watched the BBC Two TV documentary the Future of Food, a real eye opener.
I would recommend viewing it,… Continue

new opportunities
* the green new deal thinking may start to open up new opportunities for cleaner, greener products and technologies - already japan and korea have announced programmes and obama may make some concrete statements in his inaugration sppech
* we are part of the TT network in farnham
* i run the centre for sustainable design www.cfsd.org.uk @ www.ucreative.ac.uk
* we have just been successful in some ec funding bids and this will enable us to give FREE advise to product and/or tech… Continue

The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC), an independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion problem, has prepared a new report aimed specifically at local government in the UK.

The report says: "There are a great many things that councils… Continue