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Zero Carbon Castle Tree Me — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:03:03 +0000

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Comment on Transition Bedford by Zero Carbon Castle

Zero Carbon Castle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:25:51 +0000

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Comment on Tips and links – Reducing waste by Zero Carbon Castle

Zero Carbon Castle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:24:56 +0000

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Comment on Car clubs – costs etc. by shane

shane — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:06:12 +0000

a lot of car rental companies have electric versions now and some are even doing a car share type package. convincing a car rental to support this type of model could be a way forward with no capital investment and all the admin covered etc.
this article is about a system that will come out in 2010 but there’s a lot out there.

http://springwise.com/automotive/europcarnissan/

Comment on Unused open space and fruit tree map by shane

shane — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:21:04 +0000

Hi Michael, I had a good chat with Ant from Bigbarn yesterday and we’re both keen to find away of working together to develop a template map that can be rolled out across other transitions. Does this fit with you? Maybe he can supply code for you to work from. I’m pretty sure he mentioned it being ope source.
We need to chat about the scope. i.e. will it be just food based or will their be renewable energy sites, recycling points etc. There’s also a sticking point with ant. He runs a commercial operation and some local suppliers pay to have a superior listing. How we deal with this needs to be discussed on day 1. I think it can be worked out but not sure how and wouldn’t want to waste time and then find out there’s no fit.
Shane

Comment on Waste pages updated by lucybywater

lucybywater — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:02:28 +0000

Lets’ share tips on businesses that help save waste.
eg if you have an inkjet printer like me, take your cartridges to be refilled at say Cartridge World at Greyfriars. There are probably loads of other places but they’re pretty good. Much cheaper than buying new ones too.
Also, on a refill roll today, I took my Ecover washing up liquid & fabric conditioner bottles to be refilled at Wholefoods by the bus station. Very satisfying it was too!

Also let’s reinstate John’s ’skip watch’. I keep seeing nice bits of wood in skips and fishing them out.

Comment on Unused open space and fruit tree map by Michael Harper

Michael Harper — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:48:53 +0000

I am happy to lead this project.

I have been looking into using google earth as the mapping tool for the site. It is free and well supported. You can easily embed information using the mark-up language kml. In addition you can insert 3D models using the tool ‘google sketch-up’ or by searching the extensive online library of free models.

Shane has provided me some details on the website, some contacts who can help and greater access so hopefully in the not to distant future I should be able to set-up a test page and get feed back on its function.

In the meantime it would be good to start forming a database of information to be inserted into the mapping tool. Once some pieces of information come in, we can define our data model (i.e. standardise the data we wish to receive; e.g. for a single fruit tree this could be: type (apple), location (lat, long), harvesting period, whether permission to harvest has been gained etc…)
In addtion we can look to categorised the information and set-up the map to enable filtering. Categories can be: current plots of land, single trees, sites of potential, fruit types or what ever we agree on.

If anyone has any information about fruit tree locations or plots of land which we can use then please let me know and I shall start to collect the information.

I shall be posting a set of user requirements which should hopefully give everyone an idea of how the tool will be used, comments on these will be paramount to ensure we get the right feel and functionality in the tool.

Cheers

Michael

Comment on Unused open space and fruit tree map by ddell

ddell — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:29:30 +0000

I don’t have time or skills to lead this, but want to help too. How about starting with listing the Devon Park orchard? There is an East of England orchards group at Apple Day at Bromham Mill every year, perhaps they could help?
Also, we are the proud owners of a Newton’s Wonder tree. Would anyone have the skills to take grafts from it to propagate it, as it is especially suited to the local climate?