tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68421058230023858492024-03-05T05:29:20.384-08:00Nick MeechSee also my tumblr blogs here: http://nickmeech1.tumblr.comNick Meechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386773767495780221noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842105823002385849.post-22754496847826326892014-11-21T02:44:00.001-08:002014-12-01T01:15:06.903-08:00<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The coming together of an old 5 series BMW and a wooden shed. Once a Car will go some way to explore why a car is more friendly to use than a house. I need some help with the electrics and electronics, money of course would help make it happen much quicker.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">I have designed some solar panels, they are incorporated into window blinds as one way to overcome the problem of obtrusive panels on the Whole Project. The most efficient way to develop the design is to prototype some alternatives, measuring the output and exploring their layout and function. I'm presently working on some of the novel features that I believe will be patentable and will use these features to attract manufacturers and investors to this new product niche. This exciting project needs both skill and cash to make it happen but is very commercial and timely. Grant aid can help the first phase but finding the skills and building a team will be key in the coming months.</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><a href="" name="more"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">The landscape impact of PV arrays is becoming significant and for me when added to the use of good agricultural land bring their sustainability into question. Building integration is the best solution to this problem. If this could be combined with buy in from main stream </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">energy consumers</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">significant progress could be made. Availability of appropriate tech in our local B&Q or Jewsons is crucial and is my focus for a solar blind product.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><div>
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Nick Meechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386773767495780221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842105823002385849.post-63324253809495120812014-06-30T00:39:00.000-07:002015-11-02T04:12:49.979-08:00Whole update<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am having to sell the Whole @ Culmstock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We must not let environmental education be seen as boring and we have a duty to promote the joys of nature over plastic trash. I have worked for over 20 years making environmental education more interesting but perhaps I have missed the point; should I even be calling it 'education'? Should I not be going out selling outdoor 'play' instead.</span></div>
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each racing season, makes the clothes obsolete. When I wear these in my workshop,
it's good recycling but at odds with my environmental work. This spawned my idea of
proclaiming my own beliefs and preferences in the same way on a new kind of shirt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(10.196080%, 10.196080%, 10.196080%); font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I have over the years </span><span style="color: #000119; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">refined </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">this concept to produce the Heart on Sleeve
shirt. Prototyped in an unbleached organic cotton T shirt, they have an embroidered
Heart on Sleeve logo on the left sleeve and contact information on the right. This includes
a QR code that could link you to a HOS social networking website enabling people to connect
with you in the street and find you online if you wish.</span><br />
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The left chest has the things you like, for example a favourite band, local pub or venue and
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involved with to an international humanitarian aid organisation like Oxfam.</span><br />
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donation that you choose. The social networking site verifies your support and keeps you
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face to face social networking making connections with others. Having the opportunity to
proclaim your support in the real world. You get to control how much information is printed
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printers. We will assist not for profit organisations to set up small local printing shops or
staff a pop up shop at a festival to give the project a local dimension and appeal to those
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am delighted that we have already explored some new ideas during the first phase of The Whole project not least this little YouTube film making the planning application more accessible. It's difficult to know if this helped keep the objections to the permission down to the one but feel it is the type of tool that Localism should be about.</span></div>
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I would like to commission a short story written specifically about the places and characters in the community highlighting topics of conversation and much that gets missed in the local paper and district council chamber. This could be published in the parish newsletter with an invitation from the author to attend a workshop on creative writing and express their own views on the neighbourhood they live.</div>
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Nick Meechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386773767495780221noreply@blogger.com0Hemyock, Devon EX15, UK50.91135 -3.227796000000012150.891328 -3.2681365000000122 50.931371999999996 -3.187455500000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842105823002385849.post-49591060416653012782013-07-02T04:58:00.002-07:002013-09-03T08:27:04.836-07:00My Jerwood Open Forest<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Asking those attracted to the super size sustainable superhero what</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">they like about their area and what they wish for in the future. If they would like</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a little help they can ask their new super size friend using </span><span style="color: #4e7a35; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">New Media</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> to visit their community and make some of their dreams come true. This</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">could be at their school, work or club but will be focused on how to connect with their local woodland</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and how to bring some of it back to their community.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A connection with a local woodland</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">made easier and more appealing especially to</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">those not normally venturing onto a Forestry</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Commission site. They may be surprised there are</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no tweed police and their smart phone can tell them some</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">cool secrets as they explore. This </span><span style="color: #659c46; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Smart Interpretation</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> allows them to be creative as well as tap into the </span><span style="color: #659c46; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Local Artists </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">work who were also inspired and rejuvenated</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">by the place</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">‘</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Meet me here, it's fab and there's coffee and cake!’ Who knows, if enough ask there may be a </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">super size sustainable superhero</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">waiting around the next corner. ‘I never knew a forest</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">was such fun</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and that it’s mine!’ If they are too far away why not</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">wish for one closer? If</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">enough</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">people want a woodland next to their place</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">perhaps some hero will help</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">them plant</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">one!</span></span><br />
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More information on the Jerwood Open Forest is <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=jerwood%20open%20forest&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jerwoodvisualarts.org%2Fjerwood-open-forest-announcement-pr&ei=YO_LUaPcM8KW0AXL6oCQBw&usg=AFQjCNERNqZnguM6zs_Cj94X7lkz1kEpXw&sig2=3rNPYW4ps3ucgRy7e1lC8g" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></h3>
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Like this on YouTube to help Hayden become the Rising Star at River Cottage.Nick Meechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386773767495780221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842105823002385849.post-21329647268497495102013-04-26T02:03:00.001-07:002013-04-26T02:03:14.436-07:00School or Prison?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now destined to go off to two sites near Portsmouth one a very interesting new exhibition called 'You Don't Know What I'm Capable of!' the others being displayed at <a href="http://www.lakesidenorthharbour.com/" target="_blank">1000 Lakeside</a> home of the Southern Co-Op amongst others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More recently we have been encouraged by<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.bhaam.org.uk/artist/?id=26900708-19b2-4c99-92e1-56c92de4ed79" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Bhaam</span></a></span> to explore the potential for using medical CT and MRI scans to produce health promotion interpretation for doctors waiting rooms. The doctors of the Blackdown Hills have yet to be convinced to put anything new in their waiting rooms. So I will approach the hospitals who already use the technology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James at CALM also showed us how artists and creatives are pushing the boundaries including this fantastic example of <a href="http://vimeo.com/25401444" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Markus Kayser's Solar Sinter Project</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next task is to find more collaborators who can help make our ideas technically feasible and refine some to take to market. CALM have already been very helpful and we are looking forward to working with <u><a href="http://www.simpleware.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Simpleware</span></a></u> on the manipulation of medical scan files and we hope to find a partner from those working with precious metals soon. </span></div>
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</span>I was out with friends the other evening and was introduced to someone from Barnstaple. When I mentioned I had worked on the Newport path, she exclaimed 'the dog shits gone!' so two years on it's still worthy of comment and of all the<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323;"> interesting things we did there, more of which in later blogs,</span> it turns out to be the most enduring and important. So what can be learnt from revisiting this project?:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only promise what you are willing and able to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">deliver.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tell anyone who has the same problem how we did it. Ah, did I mention its really difficult?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Help to ask communities if they want you to get rid of the dog shit from their space.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Provide help if there are others that need persuading. Especially if there are </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">officials who could stop it being successful. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323;">One problem that may affect your area that needs to be identified is people driving to the site from some distance to walk their dog. This may undermine your plan as this type of user will move to using another site then return once the campaign is over. One way of solving it is to successfully identify where it's happening and address them directly either in person or with windscreen flyers or posters. Make it plain you know what they are doing and try not to put them off from using the area responsibly. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323;">Public meetings can get extreme over reactions calling for offenders to be strung up or suggesting impractical enforcement methods like CCTV. One reason for this is that it is often those most annoyed and highly motivated that come to a public meeting. It's best to separate those who will be great allies and others who were serious about the lynching. </span></span></span></div>
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