Have started business 'Earths Crafts Past', trying to offer sustainable living solutions for people using the ancient skills and knowledge I have gained over the years in Thatching, Stonemasonry, Cob walling, Cruckframing, Clay and Adobe ovens, Wattle and Daub, Kilns etc, and am looking for like minded individuals or groups to get involved either as enthusiastic clients, would be collaborators, researchers or investors.

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Trailer of a fantastic new film - coming soon.

Please sign my Wellington City Council [WCC] ePetition, then verify the email it sends to join, on the International Peace Symbol to go either side of POSITIVELY in the WCC logo. My website link to it is www.nfwn.webs.com with plenty of links, justifications and insights on the topic.

Who is interested in this topic please:- The public is being misinformed on depleted uranium munitions risks. The UN's trusted WHO is tied to the IAEA's stance on depleted uranium munitions nanoparticle residue effects on living tissue. However, the IAEA's stance is tied to ICRP methodology which an expert, Dr Rosalie Bertell, says is wrong. The ECRR has shown why. This false picture calls into question all of WHO's findings on any topic. Here is Dr Bertell's email to me. To quote her:-

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Start: 27 Sep 2010 19:30 Start: 27 Sep 2010 19:30

For our September public meeting Transition Timaru will be showing two insirational, positive short films:

- Carving the Future - an award-winning new NZ film showcasing amazing young New Zealanders working to protect our environment and build community.

» Read more Location / Venue:  Room G3/4 Godley Block, Aoraki Polytechnic

Start: 13 Sep 2010 19:30 Start: 13 Sep 2010 19:30

Transition Timaru will be hosting a meet the candidates night - we will be inviting all Timaru Ward Council and Mayoral candidates along for a question and answer session based around environmental and community building issues. Come along, meet the candidates and see where they stand on these important policy areas.  This is also a great opportunity to inform the candidates of ouir views and priorities.  Most of the candidates have already confirmed that they will be attending.

Location / Venue:  Room G3/4 Godley Block, Aoraki Polytechnic

Four years ago Al Gore released his documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in which he shows the dire consequences that could result if the Arctic Ice melts – dramatic flooding of densely populated coastal areas around the world, and warned that climate change was causing more extreme weather patterns leading to more flooding, with droughts and hurricanes also becoming stronger. 

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I read the governments Draft Energy Strategy  and discovered that apart from a bland statement that oil prices will rise and be volatile, it fails to identify the risks to New Zealand's energy security. There is no discussion in the DES about the threats to New Zealand of oil scarcity arising from global oil depletion and no analysis of the potentially devastating impacts on the New Zealand economy from scarcity and/or higher oil prices. Nor does it discuss how soon these threats might arise. For example could they occur within one year, five years, 10 years, or longer?

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Start: 12 Sep 2010 14:00 End: 12 Sep 2010 16:00 Start: 12 Sep 2010 14:00 End: 12 Sep 2010 16:00

There are 2 more Sunday working bees before daylight saving returns. We will be watering and feeding the trees, weed eating the grass, sowing wildflower seed and getting our berry beds ready.

We would love to see you if you are able to help out on Sunday: 12th and/ or 26th September. 

Bring tools if you have them – trowel, rake, fork…

Look forward to seeing you

Mel and Kelda

To find out more contact kelda.hains [at] clear.net.nz

Location / Venue:  Harrison Street, Brooklyn, Wellington

Here's an idea that combines the Transition movement's drive to rebuild our local foodsheds with its drive to build new economic structures. In our local neighborhood in Los Angeles, for the third year running, we are hosting a group purchase of bare root fruit trees. 

It started on a whim. I was ordering bare root fruit trees for my own yard, and thought perhaps a few others might wish to piggyback on my order.

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