Randy Chatterjee's Comments

yes, thanks for the message. I am awaiting Ross' reply on joing the kits village ;) Is there a place for me to post an article I wrote last year on the TT movement? thx, D.

Pastor Hassan,
I will ask our small membership if anyone has the resources to make such a long journey. We are all modest people struggling to live in a very expensive city. Village Vancouver's mission is to work locally, and our resources are focussed on programs just within our neighbourhoods.
We have no current international development goals, expertise, or capacity.
I would strongly recommend finding organizational partners who have a global development focus.
Randy Chatterjee

Dear Randy Chatterjee
salutation in Jesus name
we have a very powerful event here for sensitizing
our african community for a whole month of November this year.
in doing home based bussiness and passing on to them working
knowledge.
we are looking for people with simple knowledge and ready to help africa with that knowledge to come and be part of this event.
I si tipossible for you to help us?
praying for you
Pastor Hassan Mubiru

Dear Randy Chatterjee
greetings from Uganda and Disciples Christian Fellowship Church.
what we need is new ideas brother what you do there may help us too
to help our people here who are dsperately with nothing to do.
I am looking forward into this global village to work with you.
yours in Christ
Pastor Hassan Mubiru

Hi Randy--

Thanks for the welcome. My wife, Diane, and I saw Leslie on the weekend and plan to do a potluck to meet others in Cedar Cottage interested in Transition. We're tentatively planning on Sat Mar 20th at our house. More details later.
Robin

Thanks Randy. I look forward to do cross-promotion.
Alan

I think the site is looking pretty good now :-) I like the Transition branding touches, is that now allowed as an official group?

Are you able to link to the specific Creative Commons license on this page (http://villagevancouver.ning.com/page/media-1)? I'm guessing there is a specific license that covers permission needed for commercial use.

On the left column, what is the difference between partners and allies? Just curious, I'm exploring similar links myself here.

I really like the menu structure of working groups, villages, projects, etc. Great to see how things are developing! Hopefully sometime soon I will have a Transition Belsize site for you to check out ;-)

thank you for the welcome . I will be at the main street pot luck. I am really enjoying finding people working toward a hopeful future and looking for both vision and practical steps.It is making me rethink my priorities and think about my own next steps . thank you for helping set this all in motion. Jill

Hi Randy

I couldn't agree with you more, global citizenship needs to begin at the local level.

I am really excited about what village vancouver is doing and I would love to help document the process, VVTV is a great idea!

I'll be busy for the month of Feb, but after that I should be more available.

Great to be in touch!
Kirsty
kirstymat@gmail.com

Thanks--after several 'false starts' it seems that I am here to stay...looking for a nest to pretty-up as I type this. So grateful to have the opportunity to live here! Thanks for reaching out : )

Hi Randy
Thanks for the welcoming words and encouraging comments.

There are no "cook-book" solutions for many situations when you are trying new technology. This can lead to better solutions based on first principles as you say. Comments from others are also very helpful in this context.

The location where I want to put my solar water heater is on the south side of my cottage adjacent to a closet which I have opened up to give me access water lines. The outside site requires some pick and shovel work to level the site. I think it will work out well but there are a number of details to sort out. I am concerned about dealing with freezing weather.

all the best
John Robertson Saturna Island

No, and sort-of. My "boiler" and DHW heater are one in the same, a 97% efficient, direct-vent Polaris internal flame gas heater. It feeds directly a home-run, fully-insulated PEX DHW manifold, and---through a heat exchanger--supplies several hundred metres of hydronic radiant tubing that is embedded in my basement slab and stapled under my upper story sub-floors. Someday this year a hydronic solar-panel-fed holding tank will preheat all water entering the Polaris heater. As for air replacement, the ceiling of my south-facing greenhouse is the dark tile floor of my porch above. Using tightly-spaced joists and only concrete board and large tile, this horizontal surface will heat up in the sun, and warm air from the greenhouse will rise and flow along subfloor air channels into the house. A colder--air return in the basement back into the greenhouse or directly to outside completes the loop. I do not have enough unbroken south-facing wall to create a solar wall, but this will likely be better anyway, with summer heat gain more easily rejected. Most all of this is still under construction, and I will let you know when there is a good point at which to inspect it.

This is my daughter Susan. She's 9. What more can I say? She's an accomplished horsewoman, an avid reader, physically coordinated and capable of picking up sport quickly, a dreamer, quiet and reflective, and with a core of strength and character that, while it may cause home front battle, is to treasure and encourage.

Thanks for the welcome, Rand. I'm not a Luddite, just technologically bipolar (and a procrastinator extraordinaire)! I'll gladly build you a computer from parts (pretty straightforward these days), but hand me a cell phone and I'm clueless.

I'll be out of town tomorrow but will definitely start working on content this weekend. Thanks for all the hard work you've been putting into getting the new site up and going.

Cheers, Derek

Many thanks. Two are mine and Claire is our neighbour (but just like family). I just came back from a screening of "A Chemical Reaction" which talks about the pesticide industry. Definitely a passion of mine.

Hi Randy,
Thanks for the welcome. No, I'm not in the wine industry, I take it you googled me! I work on climate change adaptation and community resilience, mostly in terms of governance, planning, process. I heard about your group from Philip at another event recently. I have a lot of common areas of interest, I know of the transition town movement and am very interested in this initiative. Thanks for the overview, I look forward to learning more.
Cheers, Erica

Hey Rand, thanks for the comment. Sounds great. Looking forward to seeings all of these projects develop.

Hi Rand,

The site looks great, good effort! A core area sounds like a smart idea to separate out that material and discussions.

Couple of thoughts on the Ning site in general:

The Events page had a large block of whitespace at the top for me, is that something that can be changed?

It looks like each Group can have their own Forums and then there are the site-wide Fora. How do you see those each being used? Is a page of site guidelines needed?

Is there any way to highlight projects being worked on? I think its pretty helpful to show a distinction between projects and groups as the TT Totnes site does. But I appreciate this may push up against the limitations of Ning.

What is the general feeling, will this supplant the current site and be sufficient for future needs?