Notices by Epistatacadam (epistatacadam@toot.wales)

@ChrisMayLA6 so long as she doesn't let the big builders convince her that high quality housing is far too expensive to build.
It adds very little to the cost of a building about £1k to make it reach passivhus standard, so compared to the builders profit a flea bite.
But instead social housing becomes cheap for the poor to live in. So adds to the local economy as the poor spend most of their income.

@Wen GPs will be glad to be rid of the task. However, as someone who has had my share of illness during my working life, I was glad I could get someone who knew who I was and what I was who could give me impartial advice on return to work.
I fear for the younger people in the UK. I wonder if he's ever had a life threatening illness: Physical or Mental?

@dan whilst he's right, a bit like lights, that work after dark, and visible clothing, helmets are something within the cyclist's personal control. Most of the other things are in the gift of others. The evidence, I believe, is that by making a city/town pedestrian and cycling friendly, the group who gain the most is actually motorists, in terms of injuries to car occupants.
I agree the campaign should focus at making towns human friendly, whilst assisting road users to find good lights helmets.

@TCMuffin @wood5y @CloudyMrs @harriettmb I think there is a useful role for having spiritual thinkers in any nations revising chamber. They generally take a longer term view of matters, though how we get such people in is as yet an answered question, but successful hierarchy climbers of one selected religion must be the worst way!

@ChrisMayLA6 localism is the way to go, with a focus on minimal external energy use. Perhaps employ people to do things, rather than rely on electronics to do it..... the return of water mills, perhaps😉!

@ChrisMayLA6 also food growing and supplying, aka villages.....😉 with towns for professional services....

@ChrisMayLA6 I loathe the term, which I suspect was designed to be pejorative. However, I suspect it is pretty accurate. Small communities based on an accurate version of Dunbar's number, say 500 people, will source food & energy, repair hygiene and primary care locally, with larger communities providing specialist services secondary services such as legal, hospital based services, and post primary education. I'm guessing cities will provide tertiary services within the sovereign city state?

@ChrisMayLA6 that's what I envisage. A series of local governments within collaborative Federations within a series of larger confederations.
In UK it would return power to Local Government who would hold the spare money and pass it up to regional and federal governments who would fund the confederations in turn. Bottom up government, rather than the top down approach we seem lumbered with.

@bobjmsn the irony is that Norway is heavily involved in oil extraction which will destroy the nature they claim to love.