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Showing results 16 - 20 of 31 for the month of June, 2006.
Last Friday we screened the End of Suburbia at Bogan House in Totnes, which was attended by over 40 people. This was the first time we tried a different way of facilitating the event, and I thought it went quite well, so I thought I’d tell you about it.
I saw this in the station newsagent the other day and it had me chuckling all day… Tony Blair has become such a ridiculous figure in the UK of recent months…. at least with Sven Goran Erikson we know when he is going, Blair seems to be clinging on Macbeth-like to power, despite everyone knowing that he is going to be leaving soon. I don’t imagine that his departure will lead to the kind of dancing in the streets that the Fall of the House of Thatcher did, but it is getting to be a pretty close run thing….
The Eden Project has a Waste Neutral policy on site. Its recycling is clean and efficient, and everyone is encouraged to separate their waste. This is a picture of the tray you get your dinner on, a great example of how the Eden Project uses every opportunity to pass on messages in a positive “you are part of something really exciting here” way. It makes recycling something that you just kind of find yourself doing, rather than their having to nag.
The winner of our Margaret Wheatley competition is **Melanie Jarman**, who correctly answered that Schumacher College gets its name from the late alternative economist E.F. Schumacher. There was an amazing response to the competition, seeing as how it was only actually relevant to people living within about 10 miles of Totnes; I thought no-one would enter! Just for your information, all of the choices were real, apart from the last one, there is no seminal 1970’s German prog rock band called Schumacher whose best known album was “Luminous Pancake Terror”. Shame really.
For a long time I have had the idea of a restaurant which is landscaped in such a way that the food that people eat is grown around them. It would be a kind of more ethical version of “I’ll have the third lobster on the left please, could you boil it alive for me”, being more of a “can I have the third Lollo Rosso on the left and some of that rocket over there…”. It has long been a dream, but until last week I had never actually seen it in reality.
