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12 Jun 2006
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….
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11 Jun 2006
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.
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7 Jun 2006
The Barn Cinema have kindly offered 2 tickets to see the great Margaret Wheatley at the Barn Cinema, Dartington on Wednesday 14th June at 6:00pm. Clearly this is a pretty local kind of a competition, not much use to our US readers, but if you live near enough to get to Dartington then email the correct answer to the following question to **robjhopkins (at) gmail.com** by the evening of Sunday 18th.
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2 Jun 2006
The winner of the ‘Building with Hemp’ competition is **Keith Hackwood**, who correctly answered that hemp based paper can indeed be recycled more times than that made from wood pulp, up to seven times more in fact. Keith wins a copy of ‘Building with Hemp’ by Steve Allin, well done Keith, we look forward to our invite to your hemp house warming party in a couple of years!
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26 May 2006
Last night around 95 people attended the UK premiere of the Community Solution’s film ‘The Power of Community’ at the Totnes Methodist Hall. The film explores what happened to Cuba when their oil supply disappeared, almost overnight, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. It looks at the positive way in people responded and relocalised many aspects of their lives. At last, a peak oil film which is also positive and inspirational. The film was very well received, and the group discussion afterwards was lively and very positive about the film.
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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….
