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10 Jul 2009
I know you were all gripped by Monday’s potato competition, so I can now unveil the correct answer and the winner. The correct answer was that Bob Dylan did NOT write ‘Blowing in the Wind’ as a ballad about the tragic loss of his Manhattan balcony-grown potatoes to potato blight, it was complete nonsense that I made up (not a new phenomenon here at Transition Culture you might argue). Congratulations to James Pavitt in Statford whose knowledge of potatoes was sufficiently robust to beat off the competition. What James will do with his Transition spud remains to be seen; boiled, mashed, or perhaps even chipped? Thanks to all who entered, and James, buon appetit!
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6 Jul 2009
Just been digging up my new potatoes with my kids, very enjoyable. I didn’t grow that many, and it wasn’t the most prolific year’s harvest I ever grew… all I can say is thank heavens we aren’t relying on this year’s crop to last us through until this time next year! I don’t tend to grow many potatoes, as there are good local organic growers who grow them better, cheaper and have more space to do so than I have. I do like to grow a few though, as there are few things nicer than digging up your own potatoes on a fine early July afternoon.
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1 Jul 2009
Several people have been in touch to ask whether it is possible to see the original questionnaire that I used to do the surveys from which the initial findings were presented here at Transition Culture the other day. You can download a pdf. of the questionnaire here. It was based, in part on questions from the Community Resilience Manual, developed in Canada by the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, taking some of their questions, but also building from their observations, 8 years after first drafting the manual, that;
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30 Jun 2009
As part of the PhD that I am still pretending to be doing, I have done a survey of around 215 households in Totnes and Dartington. I have just, through my rudimentary knowledge of SPSS ( a statistical analysis package), done an initial analysis of the data, and the findings are very interesting. They answer, among other questions, the one about ‘what percentage of people in Totnes know about TTT, what percentage are involved, and do people think it is relevant to them?’ The findings from this survey, and the more detailed analysis of it still to follow, will feed into the Totnes & District EDAP. I am also looking for someone more competent with SPSS than myself to help me analyse it further (see below).
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24 Jun 2009
A couple of months ago I attended the IDEA conference in Liverpool. The delegates came from local authorities across England, and the first morning of the event was designed to look at Transition. I spoke first, and gave a general overview of it, and then Simon Allen of Transition Stroud and Cllr. Fi Macmillan of Stroud District Council (see left) spoke. They told the story, as a scripted dialogue, of how Transition Stroud and the Council forged a very productive working relationship. It was a fascinating 20 minutes, and I asked Simon if I could post their script here, so here it is, with thanks to them both.
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I know you were all gripped by Monday’s potato competition, so I can now unveil the correct answer and the winner. The correct answer was that Bob Dylan did NOT write ‘Blowing in the Wind’ as a ballad about the tragic loss of his Manhattan balcony-grown potatoes to potato blight, it was complete nonsense that I made up (not a new phenomenon here at Transition Culture you might argue). Congratulations to James Pavitt in Statford whose knowledge of potatoes was sufficiently robust to beat off the competition. What James will do with his Transition spud remains to be seen; boiled, mashed, or perhaps even chipped? Thanks to all who entered, and James, buon appetit!
