Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
Genius and for me, one of the best musical responses to 9/11. I am (Also testing out a new twitter / Facebook posting combo – hope it works!)
Category: And The Next Thing is …
Within the next couple of months we will be publishing the Alloway Rap (ISBN 978-1-910326-00-8), and also a whole raft of Dunans Castle consultation documents in hardback, softback, pdf and ibook format. All of these will use the abovenoted prefix.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/18/scottish-independence-scotland
In my view, Land Reform, community ownership of assets and independence are the right way to go. There’ll be uncertainty, there’ll be change, but if we wish to have a happy, vibrant, civilised country which makes its own decisions then it has to be a Yes.
The following assumes that increasingly climate change will force communities, particularly rural ones, towards self-sustainability as far as possible …
And here is it in verse form, with all the proper punctuation.
Too brilliant for ash
or clay to contain,
they constellate
beneath the swaying grasses,
Their yellow, a sun
partially interred.
Developed with the Children of Kilmodan – who are now using the website for blogging their news – Glen of the Red River now has a user-submitting calendar for community events. Whether its for a quiz evening, whist drive or working group meeting, this is the place to let everyone know. For example last night Community Council meeting was published on the calendar. The more people use it the more useful it becomes.
And the kids will be thrilled with any comments on their posts!
{This presentation was given by me (right) alongside these images}
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This is mid-Glendaruel from the community owned forest – or rather one of our harvested coups. Gives you an idea of how glorious the place is. And here it is on the map.
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Colintraive and Glendaruel is a community of 350 people. We measure 28 miles
I am giving a presentation to SPREEE, the Cross Party Group on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency on Community Benefit from Windfarms from the inside. I’ve got info and feedback from the Windfarm Trust, but it would be great to have comments from community members in ColGlen – positive and / or negative – both are welcome!
… artwork for the cover of Alloway Rap. Notice the signal black, white and orange – no where have I seen that before? The TWTC logo possibly?
The font is ‘Cracked’ by the way and it was drawn in illustrator.
Getting really very excited about publishing the Conservation Plan for Dunans and the Alloway Rap by Sadie.