Jim is a Senior Consultant- Environmental & Public Health Engineer, Stantec New Zealand. One of our regular Tuesday Group members Rod Cameron has arranged for Jim to speak Jim will be joining us on ZOOM - some of us will be at Smash Palace, and others are welcome to join us on Zoom - … [Read more...]
Submissions to CCC and ECan Plans
As Kevin Hague reminded us last week - it is really important to make submissions to annual plans, even if they are simple ones like We need to do more to protect and enhance our biodiversity, to cut our emissions and to prepare for the effects of climate change on our environment and on our … [Read more...]
Garry writes 10 March 2020
I have changed the way I travel into town. Mostly I am on my bike, but occasionally I am in a vehicle. The newly constructed road into town supporting the massive growth in Waimakariri is about to disgorge its contents on Christchurch, in a new place. Where traffic engineers have long argued … [Read more...]
Last Week: Tim Taylor
Here’s Aaron Campbell’s video https://youtu.be/rYAZjYrjpW0 Last week’s speaker, Tim Taylor, spoke to us about planning models which are being experimented with in selected Cities in Europe. I especially liked his analogy of when America said that it would have a man on the Moon by the end of … [Read more...]
This week’s speaker is Kevin Hague, CEO of Forest and Bird.
Kevin is in Christchurch to discuss the opportunity to restore our natural world this election year. Forest and Bird argues that while the challenges ahead are great, we can vote with nature in mind, mitigate climate change, and create a better future. I know many of those who attend the … [Read more...]
A challenge by Axel Wilke:
Axel Wilke, transport planner - now walking fit again What’s my outlook for the 2020s? I predict the overriding experience will be effects brought about by climate change. Will it get too hot for us? Nope. Will the weather get too wild? Maybe. What about wildfires? Maybe, but nothing at the scale … [Read more...]
Is our city up to implementing “smart city” growth
Here’s the summary of an article sent to me by Nigel Colenso. When I read it, I kept saying “yes” as when I reflect on the City Plan which was imposed on this City it is a potential disaster. I also thought about Jim Lunday’s talk a few weeks ago and wondered what Jim would make of this. This … [Read more...]
Transport accessibility and acknowledging John Brown:
The photo features former disability advocate and journalist the late John Robert Brown attempting to go by wheelchair from his rest home to Barrington Mall. Photo taken in 2019. Clearly the city's town planners never thought about such difficulties when introducing the wheelie bin rubbish … [Read more...]
The canaries in the mine, a Canterbury water study:
Rex Gibson supplied this article: The Federation of Freshwater Anglers Inc. (NZFFA) has long believed that one of the major factors in the dramatic demise of the trout populations across the Canterbury Plains has been increasing nitrate levels in those streams and rivers that remained after … [Read more...]
Ian Wells is seeking Christchurch companies committed to becoming carbon neutral:
Ian wrote to me and asked: Who do you recommend I talk with who works in a Christchurch organisation committed to go carbon negative? This is for a panel discussion/workshop I intent to run in May. My professional background is software. Recently I was on the exec of CanterburyTech and … [Read more...]
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