by philip | Jan 11, 2018 | Research Surveys & Analysis
Where companies are exploiting the failures of the market in which they operate, where consumer choice is inhibited by deliberately complex pricing structures, we must set the market right Theresa May In 2016 I picked up a short consultancy contract with Cambium for...
by philip | Jan 7, 2016 | News
More than a long piece of string? Of course it depends. Basically the more you expect from your website project, the wider the range of features and functions, the more bespoke the design, the more complexity you build in, the more content you have, the more it will...
by philip | Nov 19, 2014 | Website
When we first setup the ourlocality network we had global ambitions. This of course didn’t happen. What did happen though was gratifying all the same. After 5 years of operation, we are on our 3rd server and refreshed the site at least 3 times, with the latest...
by philip | Oct 30, 2014 | News
I’ve spent the last few days doing a rapid induction and handover of the Zero Waste Town project. But it was not that long ago in August that I gave a short presentation to an invited audience and attended by the Environment Minister Richard Lochhead, who had...
by philip | Sep 19, 2014 | Website
The Ridge is a local community interest company with big ambitions. There’s a market gap locally in the provision of traditional and new rural skills. Training opportunities for the young and those who are not in employment are decidedly limited and difficult to...
by philip | Jan 11, 2014 | News, Research Surveys & Analysis
We’re working with CW Hayes Associates on a feasibility study to determine whether Dunbar could be come Scotland’s first Zero Waste Town. More info: Zero Waste Town, which sets out the brief and how the project aims to drive forward the zero waste agenda....
by philip | Nov 10, 2013 | Website
In 2007 we launched a green rewards programme on a shoe string budget, ie less than £50k. More than a just demonstration site, the rewards rogramme developed quite quickly and attracted a clutch of positive reviews and interested imitators. However it was not the...
by philip | Aug 16, 2013 | Research Surveys & Analysis
It does not seem so long ago that I worked on a multimillion pound project to provide support to the Romanian Ministry of Development on ways of integrating Sustainable Development into their Regional Operational Programme, regional development funds known as EU...
by philip | Sep 2, 2012 | Research Surveys & Analysis, Website
We’ve just created an online survey tool to go alongside an initiative to improve rural bus infrastructure. Betterruralbuses.org.uk (now: https://ourlocality.org/betterruralbuses) was devised to list all stops in East Lothian and provide a way of gathering...
by philip | Aug 16, 2012 | Projects
Every so often a new and eye-catching online application appears on the scene. In the parallel world of the iPhone, they can take only seconds to learn and a seconds to forget, before they are consigned to the dustbin. Nevertheless just because something takes minutes...
