It’s so easy for us to become complacent in our Island state, surrounded by water and isolated from the world. As a group of us celebrated a difficult year passing in a restaurant recently, we rejoiced that we could actually all be there together. This photo from New York taken recently reminds us … [Read more...]
The City Councillors who are leading action on Central City aren’t getting it right
I, like most of Christchurch ratepayers, are getting fed up with large property owners in the middle of our City holding us to ransom with their properties lying fallow. I applaud the City Council pushing for the properties to be used properly. It’s time for property owners to be taxed for … [Read more...]
How the rest of New Zealand housing compares with Greater Christchurch:
Just last week this interesting article on Canterbury’s housing was produced by Andy Fyers for BusinessDesk: How Canterbury built its way to affordable housing As surging property prices spread across New Zealand like wildfire in the past decade, even to lowly populated regions like … [Read more...]
Could an Independent Housing Commissioner be the Housing Jedi Knight that New Zealand needs?
Housing ideas from Brendon Harre: Brendon is currently overseas and has written this article on some ideas on housing. Read more here Could an Independent Housing Commissioner be the Housing Jedi Knight that New Zealand needs? I think it could be if the independent Reserve Bank governor … [Read more...]
Democracy and STV – why it is important
Nathaniel Herz-Edinger is part of a group in Christchurch who are getting signatures on a petition to get Christchurch City Council to hold a poll to consider changing our voting for CCC to STV. He explains his motivation here... Scroll down to how you can be involved A Story... Once upon … [Read more...]
CDHB 15 Dec 2020
The financial cuts promoted by Lester Levy are proven to be wrong: Just this week we had this article in the Press https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/123633262/drastic-savings-plan-proposed-for-canterbury-health-board-now-in-doubt reporting that CDHB Board, having hammered the old … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 15 December 2020
Garry writes 8 Dec 2020
I have been fascinated how the media has spasms of enthusiasm about topics, and then they move onto another. It’s all about one thing for a few weeks and then they move onto another. It’s often shallow analysis because they just don’t have the staff to do proper investigation. It’s clickbait … [Read more...]
Last week’s speaker: Susan Krumdieck.
What a fantastic speaker Susan was. She quietly, and with good humour, took us through what Transition Engineering is and what responsibility engineers have to lead the path to our society addressing Global Warming. I really liked when she started by demonstrating how engineers found a solution … [Read more...]
This Week – more on the Red Zone
You may remember Rod Cameron spoke to us recently on Greater Christchurch 2050, giving us some heartfelt sentiments about the environment then challenging us to think about what we could do to recover from the next Alpine Fault event, something geologists tell us is likely in that time frame. He was … [Read more...]
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