Garry writes 28 April 2020
This week not much will change from last week. Our bubbles will move slightly. This has involved delicate negotiations between us all. We would like to have everybody close to us in our bubble. Good luck everybody with your expanded new whanau. When we look around the world it really has been a … [Read more...]
Last week’s speaker Mayor Lianne Dalziel
Lianne was the first of our formal speakers on our new “Zoom” format. There were around 70 people on the session. Lianne started with a download on some of the issues which are in her mind at the moment. She then moved onto the perilous state of CCC’s finances as a result of Covid 19 and then … [Read more...]
Anzac day 2020
IT was interesting to stand at our gate and wave to the neighbours and reflect on previous wars. I have always seen wars as a dreadful failure of leadership. There are a number of world leaders right now who could cause another awful war. Trump could cause a war in his own country. It was … [Read more...]
This week’s speaker: Steve Anderson
What steps should we be taking for our future economy? Our speaker this week, Steve Anderson, will be the first of many conversations we have at the Tuesday Club on how we as a Community can restart our lives, including our economy. Join Zoom Meeting 5pm Tuesday open from … [Read more...]
Impact Unconference:
On Friday I attended a “Unconference” organised by Steven Moe and a willing bunch of thoughtful people. It was attended by 300 people from around the world. Steven is editing the discussion and I will provide a link to it next week. I attended the session led by Shamubeel Eaqub. It was fantastic. … [Read more...]
What we can do for small local businesses:
I really liked this article in the Washington Post about how little book sellers are gathering together to take on Amazon. It is partly because I am missing Scorpio Books badly and I like reading printed matter. This is an example of cooperative development which promotes the local, whilst … [Read more...]
From Janet Stephenson director of the Centre for sustainability at Otago University
Janet wrote that these are the tests we should apply to economic decisions from now on: 1. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve made a commitment as a nation to get to zero net carbon by 2050, and we all have a part to play. The time for prevarication is over. 2. Preparing … [Read more...]
Buy NZ, See NZ
From the Spinoff on Friday: A survey has been undertaken of New Zealander’s proposed spending patterns post Covus 19. It is really gratifying what people are planning. I hope we don’t slip into our old ways of using whatever is cheapest and continuing to purchase junk from China in vast … [Read more...]
A report from a Kiwi in Sweden:
Here’s a wonderful article which was in the Spinoff from a New Zealander studying there. It was fashionable, for a time, for some people who were baulking against our lock down to say “why aren’t we like Sweden”? Well here is a graph which shows why: New Zealand is the Blue. Sweden is … [Read more...]
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