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Margaret Hannah is now friends with Jan Bebbington and Mike

Apr 19, 2010

Margaret Hannah commented on Graham Leicester's blog post Rural Communities: opportunity to capitalise on the ‘resilience’ theme?

"Dear nick Thanks for taking a lead on this discussion. I will be at the Big Tent on Sunday and would love to catch up with people who will be there and who are interested in this theme. My mobile is 07736 022 157 for anyone wanting to give me a…"

Jul 17, 2009

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Welcome! FierySpirits is for activists and professionals who are building vibrant, resilient rural communities. Tell us a little about why you'd like to join?: To learn about putting good ecological thinking into practice.

About Me (areas of expertise/interest I can share): I work 3 days a week in the NHS in Fife as Deputy Director of Public Health. I also do 2 days a week pro bono with the International Futures Forum, a charity interested in bringing new thinking and practice to our most intractable challenges.
I have two boys and want them to learn the skills for transition as currently the school curriculum leaves much to be desired on that front.
Living in St Andrews, I think there are possibilities for cross-fertilising learning from other places where transition initiatives are taking place with the town. It has a great many natural assets which lend themselves to transition, although the economy is very oil-based, with people travelling from all over the world to visit the town as students, teachers and tourists.
I am conscious my own skills for transition are lacking and want to learn more.

Website:: http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com

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Healthcare in bioregions

Posted on September 23, 2008 at 15:04 2 Comments 0 Likes

Following an inspiring conversation with Nick last week, I met a Professor of Medicine at the weekend who has refused most standard medical treatments for her recently diagnosed breast cancer. Her reasons are that having built up expertise in the science of wellbeing, she wanted to put this into practice in her own life. Needless to say, she looked radiant and her story was less one of fight, but more one of transformation. Also, needless to say, she is having some difficulty talking to… Continue

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At 18:58 on March 16, 2009, Fergus Walker said…: Hello Margaret,

Fergus Walker here, just to say that I have photos of the scale model of my flour mill design on my blog: http://ipd.dundee.ac.uk/users/fergus (not a very catchy address!) I'm afraid I forgot to tell you earlier. I'm now working away at testing the millstones (the latest news on the blog).

Thanks very much again for the lift back from the One Planet Food launch, and for an interesting and entertaining discourse en route!

Fergus

At 12:31 on January 12, 2009, Mike S said…: Hi Margaret
thanks for your message - and I think congratulations are in order on your job?

Very much looking forward to meeting you too - to discuss food and health issues - what's your email and I'll send you a draft of our plans for our One Planet Food project in Fife.

regards
Mike