Neoliberalism has got us into the present mess and it has no way of getting us out. Whether it is AI, Climate Change, Vaping, Uber, AirBnB, Tourism…. for nearly forty years we have said – let the market decide. The “Free Market” and the removal of regulation has not brought us to Nirvana, it has … [Read more...]
Is local manufacturing going to come back?
It has been fascinating to witness the debate about “supply lines” with the Suez Canal debacle. For the last few decades, we have been told that “just-in-time” is the best economic model for businesses to operate under. Combined with the race to the bottom on the absolute need to get the lowest … [Read more...]
Do you know about the CCC Sustainability fund
The CCC has a Sustainability Fund. They have asked if this can be distributed to the Tuesday Club: This may be of interest to you, colleagues or your community networks. Please circulate and share to those you think could benefit, thanks. The Christchurch City Council's Sustainability Fund … [Read more...]
This Week – Susan Krumdieck
This week we are privileged to have Professor Susan Krumdieck who leaves our City soon to become a Professor in Scotland. Susan will speak about Transitional engineering. Here’s what she wrote recently: At the turn of the century, the factories, transport systems and products of the industrial … [Read more...]
This Week: 20 Minute Cities with Iain White
There has been growing international discussion of '20 Minute Cities' or '20 Minute Neighbourhoods' as a means to improve the quality of our lives as well as contribute towards wider goals associated with local economic regeneration or climate change. This talk will explain the emergence of the … [Read more...]
Better Futures Forum
Rosemary writes: A forum of people unified by a single objective: to seize this opportunity to transform New Zealand. Better Futures Forum sprung out of the Covid crisis. A crisis that will be one of many if we do not fundamentally change the way we live or use the finite resources on this … [Read more...]
Growing Transitional Engineering:
Taking a different approach to how engineers shape a low carbon future... The Sustainability Society, Engineers for Social Responsibility and the Global Association for Transition Engineering are hosting a webinar panel event exploring the transition engineering movement. Join them for a … [Read more...]
Gen Zero Vision for Christchurch’s Economic Recovery…
We are acutely aware of the twin pressures to minimise rate rises and increase spending to reduce the economic impacts of COVID-19. We urge you to seek help from the central government as they respond so that long-term investment is not reduced but instead expanded. We ask for increased … [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...]
Slave Labour
I visited Italy at the end of last year. What a wonderful place. I really like the Italian’s approach to the Catholic Church. They are baptised, married and buried in the Church. The rest of the time the least they have to do with the Church the better. The town we stayed in was 2300 years old. The … [Read more...]