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		<title>Joining the Green Energy Jet-set</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote  a while back about how I was looking to install some form of renewable technology on our house &#8211; however, for planning and safety issues, a Wind Turbine was not a particularly good option &#8211; in fact, worse than that, it wasn&#8217;t viable. This was a real downer, living in one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=235&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CLG&#8217;s Single Data list &#8211; well received?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG&#8217;s) abolition of the National Indicator Set, it seemed that Local Government was to be freed from the world of top-down targets, burdensome data collection. In it&#8217;s wake CLG outlined the publication of the &#8216;Single Data List&#8217; which would list everything that Local Government would be required to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=227&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When you move it&#8217;s a movement; Developing Newcastle&#8217;s Movement and Access Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent Friday running an event at the Council aimed at developing a Movement and Access Plan for the City, and I wanted to blog on it as it was a really positive thing to have done. The mood around the place hasn&#8217;t been the best, mostly due to some quite difficult cuts to jobs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=218&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unless we act, the new fuel poverty will be Petrol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is actually a train of thought I began a while ago, but hadn&#8217;t got round to finishing, so apologies that the discussion&#8217;s probably moved on a bit. As I was driving back from a weekend away with my wife in the East Midlands, we stopped and pulled over for petrol. Resigned to the fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=186&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social media in Local Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave a quick presentation to the new members of the Council&#8217;s Innovation Forum, on the uses of social media in Local Government. It also covered the LGID&#8217;s Community of Practice platform, as well as a little glimpse into the future of the replacement, the Knowledge Hub. Apologies to Ingrid Koehler for stealing a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=192&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holidays are coming &#8211; winter in Cumbria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, whilst the snow&#8217;s been hard on everyone the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been really under the blanket here. However, spirits have been kept up and it&#8217;s been a good few days. I finally got out with the camera and took some photos, of which I&#8217;ve edited one which I&#8217;m intending to use as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=196&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing innovation with progression with Open Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So bear with me, this may be a little tenuous, but it&#8217;s a strand of my thinking and I just want to follow it to the end. I was flicking through sites of other bloggers (Dave Briggs, and also Kate Bennett if you&#8217;re interested) and then decided to change my theme &#8211; I&#8217;ve been tired [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=190&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, and other things&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kitengland.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/solar-panels-wind-turbines-and-other-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I realised that I haven’t been blogging for a while now. I think it’s because partly in my head I see it as a bit of a frivolity. Anyway, firstly, there have been some big developments in the Policy/Work sphere. First off, Newcastle City Council has approved it’s first Citywide Climate Change Strategy. It’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=184&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few realisations</title>
		<link>http://kitengland.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/a-few-realisations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that over the past year or so, I’ve been clinging on to the impossible idea that despite moving up to Cumbria, life would continue pretty much as it did when I lived in Norwich, and when people were still around. Over the past few days though, I’ve come to terms with the fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=153&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bubble charts for Local Authority expenditure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve been looking for some free software which would do bubble charts to plot relative sizes. Not necessarily on an axis, but with the ability to categorise. Well, with IBM&#8217;s Many Eyes, I think it&#8217;s done the job. I took the expenditure data from Newcastle City Council&#8217;s 2010-11 budget report and added [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitengland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13495&amp;post=148&amp;subd=kitengland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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