This week Mayor Lianne Dalziel is coming to the Tuesday Club to give her thoughts on the challenges facing the City over the next three years. We have asked Lianne to identify the sort of issues which the Tuesday Club can address which assists CCC to do their work better. This will be the … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 3 December 2019
It’s wonderful to be back in our great City again after a few weeks overseas. We really do live in paradise. At one stage on our journey we were in a shop in London. The guy behind the counter asked where we came from and when he realised that we were from Christchurch, New Zealand, he leapt … [Read more...]
Tragedy of the commons
Axel Wilke writes... In the first half of the 19th century, some of the meadows used by English farmers to graze their cows turned brown. The grass was gone. It wasn’t that the soil was less fertile or that there was less rain than elsewhere. What differentiated the green and brown meadows was … [Read more...]
My life expressed in CO2
This tattoo disturbed me – what does it mean? Axel Wilke Writes... Earlier this year, I felt deep discomfort sitting next to a woman with a tattoo depicting some numbers. It reminded me of Hitler-Germany, when Jews had their prisoner ID tattooed when they went to a concentration camp. So I had to … [Read more...]
Madras Square takes another step
Rosemary Neave has been part of the Viva Community which is part of the Ōtautahi Urban Guild and writes about recent developments at Madras Square This week the Christchurch City Council approved a loan to the Ōtautahi Urban Guild to progress the development of a community led central city … [Read more...]
Last Week Denis Pyatt – Francophile
Patrick O'Connor writes... (Sorry no video this week at presenters request!) Prominent former Papanui High School Principal , current education consultant , regular Tuesday Club attendee and indeed contemporary Francophile, Dennis Pyatt , proved to be a popular guest at last Tuesday's … [Read more...]
This week Denis Pyatt
Denis finished 11 years as Principal at Papanui High School in Christchurch at the beginning of 2011. Before that he was Principal for 6 years at Horowhenua College in Levin. He sees the high quality State education system in New Zealand as one of our real taonga. He is a regular at the Tuesday … [Read more...]
John Patterson heads back to Southland
John writes about his nostalgic journey around my old stamping grounds in Southland and Otago. Spent our first night in Dunedin after driving down from Christchurch on a very quiet SH1 very little traffic. I like Dunedin and it’s a long time since we were last there I just wonder how it would … [Read more...]
Do companies have a responsibility to Manage Climate Change risks?
Chapman Tripp were asked to come up with a legal opinion: “To what extent (if at all) are New Zealand company directors and managed scheme providers permitted or required to take account of climate change considerations in their decision-making?” Their Conclusion included this: "We … [Read more...]
Axel Wilke’s musings on the Local Elections and Public Transport
I thought I’d share some election musings with you. Obviously, my intention was to join ECan to do something about transport emission dominance in Christchurch. I didn’t manage to get the message across to the voters that there ought to be a transport specialist at the decision making … [Read more...]
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