Jean is going to share some thoughts on the recent elections. You may have seen her articles in Stuff recently (links below). Since moving to Christchurch more than a decade ago, Jean Drage has worked for both Canterbury and Lincoln Universities and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority. … [Read more...]
Managing Port Hills Fire Risk
Thanks to Steffan Kraberger for an excellent precis of his research into Spatial Planning for Port Hills Wild Fires. I love the story that he and Di Lucas submitted the idea of this thesis, positing the risk. Three months later we had the Port Hills Fires. Watch the Video here … [Read more...]
Is The People’s Choice Labour by any other name?
Christchurch 2021 (the Precursor of The People's Choice) Isn't the internet a marvel, a website still exists for Christchurch 2021 which was formed in 1995. I have spoken to people who were members of Christchurch 2021 and they say that it was formed deliberately to get the best progressive … [Read more...]
Do we Really Support Democratic Representation?
Are we truly committed to democratic representation around the Council table? Many seem to want more of ‘their’ people around that table. Is this the same as representation? Concerns about water quality and the environment were obvious in ECan voting in this election, mostly in … [Read more...]
Why Politicians and Activists Need each other
Rosemary Neave writes: Garry Moore has often said politics is the art of being able to count to 50%+1. If we have a democratically representative Council or Government, then it is unlikely all will agree. Mostly politicians are forced to make small steps rather than take giant leaps, … [Read more...]
Gary remembers Lesley Keast
Lesley was my Deputy Mayor for two terms. Lesley came from a life where she had been a solo mother when they weren’t treated with much respect, nor were they assisted greatly financially. Lesley brought up her two children and managed financially by working various part time jobs. She became … [Read more...]
“Old dungers” and Wikipedia
Let’s have a Wikipedia workshop on heritage buildings... If you’d like to know how editing Wikipedia works, this will be for you. And if you have an interest in heritage, that’s better still. A few of us knowledgeable Wikipedians will get together to show newbies the ropes, ably assisted by … [Read more...]
Axel Writes 5 Nov 2019
This week it’s not “Garry writes” as he and Pam are currently soaking in the happenings in Europe. They are away for quite a number of weeks and the ‘second guard’ is holding the fort at Smash Palace. This week it’s my turn to put a newsletter together, organise the guest speaker, and run the show … [Read more...]
Last week’s speakers
There were no questions at the end of the words of Gamal Tony Green and Claire Phillips as they offered some perspectives on the tragic events of 15 March, and how other people around the world saw how New Zealanders responded. They invited us “to see ourselves as others see us”. The response to … [Read more...]
This week’s speaker Steffan Kraberger
This week’s speaker is Steffan Kraberger, a landscape architect with a design and build company based in Christchurch working with “deeply site-based landscapes” (we’ll let Steffan explain what that means). He completed a thesis titled ‘Port Hills Spatial Planning for Wildfire management’ in … [Read more...]
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