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May 2009: FierySpirits has 300 members, 40 events,

561 photos, 34 videos, 131 blog posts and 9 radio snippets ...

Dear <<Name>>
This newsletter puts you in touch with the latest action on the FierySpirits site - find out what you've
missed, and what's coming up in the next month.

Stop Press
2009 Rural Programme guide now published - points to key upcoming
events, and what the Fiery Spirits Community of Practice is all about.
Click on the picture to read...

Events: the heart of our Community of Practice... join other

Fiery Spirits at:

Stop press - last minute places available at Transition Conference May 22 at 12pm to May 24,
2009 at 5:30pm – London
Geoff Brown (Carnegie UK) is co-organising Communities in Control: Developing Assets - June
2-3 – Liverpool
FS hosts Eden invite you to the phenomenal WildWorks event The Beautiful Journey - showing
June 2-20 – Devonport South Dockyard
Colin Campbell invites you to Social Capital & Community Resilience - June 3 all day – New
Lanark World Heritage Site
Fiery Spirits hosts Centre for Alternative Technology aim to publish a 'Zero Carbon Brittain 2
report' - informed by seminars on Renewable Energy (June 3) and Transport (June 30)
Meet FierySpirits Debi and Ingrid and international colleagues in Brisbane, Australia - Building
Community Centred Economies: Dialogue for Action (June 17)
Carnegie RARP partners Atlantis Leisure are hosting a key event with key decision makers on
June 26 - Progress to Sustainability for Social Enterprise Service Providers
And why not join Kate and Nick at the National Community Land Trust Conference - June 30 -
London... for news of future support for CLT activists...

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Media: directions to FierySpirits exclusives

We video events and share them on our new FierySpirits YouTube Channel and via FierySpirits.com.
To contribute, press the 'add video' link...

One Planet Food Launch March 5th 2009 Scottish Government Minister Roseanna Cunningham
launched the One Planet Food project for Fife (see also Helen Lawrenson introducing the One
Planet Food programme to an audience in Tipperary)
Measuring What Matters Highlights from an event featuring fieryspirits gathered in Dundee in
March 2009
Abundance A wonderful urban food sharing inititive
Flour Power Launch of the world's first bike-powered flour mill!
Stroud Communiversity May 2009 Launch of the Stroud Exchange... 'Walking the Land' ...
Co-housing ... and food futures..

Groups
Practice groups focus on clear themes, often continuing (or seeding) conversations connected with
face-face events.

Sense of Place: Planning for the September 2009 conference is now in full swing, with Jane
Stoneham inviting suggestions for the programme, Tony Kendle sharing thoughts on how "we
create physical environments that allow people to come together more successfully, and at the
same time remain mindful that they are rooted in a real geography on a living world",
International Connections: has a conversation starter from Jim and Kathy at NEF around
'asset-ness' (WELL worth a read! - see also the paper in Sense of Place - the NEF team proposes
a new term, asset-ness, '... integrates perceptions about both the relative importance and the
level of the benefit derived from the asset".). See also a reflective piece from Catherine Corcoran
on the realities of getting fairtrade going in Tipperary.
Food: Mike Small has posted a number of new resources; and there is a report from Stroud
Communiversity graduates Catherine Corcoran and Davie Philip - including a great new idea from
stroudco.org.uk on foodhubs (open source web software to allow producers and consumers to
meet)
CAT information service: Tobi Kellner and the team at CAT are on hand to support transitions to
more sustainable lifestyles - and have started a group to make it very easy to ask for their help
with resources on how to do just about anything connected with alternative technology and much
more...

Blog Round-up
Any member can post a blog. If you'd rather run it by Nick first, we can help with friendly feedback,
encouragement or even an edit if...

Mike Small reports from Truro, Belfast and Torino ... "In the current vortex of credit crunch, swine
fever and expenses rage, everything has an apocalyptic edge right now"
Hazel Stutely fires us up with her blog "in the mid 90’s I found myself leading, as a beleaguered
community nurse, a remarkable turnaround of a blighted sink estate in Cornwall"
Kate Braithwaite shone a spotlight on Rural Sparks - winners of the recent Carnegie search for
great projects, as well as showing how a Carnegie partnership can help FierySpirits win significant
resources - in this case, a £500,000 grant to the Community Land Trust movement... and puts the
full weight of the trust behind the question "can we achieve prosperity without growth"?
Kirsty Tait gives an overview of how the Carnegie UK Trust Rural Action Research Programme is
culminating in policy-inspiring events across the UK this summer
And Timon Scheven invites us all to join in with The Big Lunch on July 19th
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upload their profile photo - it makes our site much more friendly.

Poem for May - taken at the Eden Project

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