Next Sunday the 9th of August it will be 75 years since the world had the dreadful nuclear bomb unleashed on us. Three days later there was another bomb dropped by USA on Nagasaki. I spent some time as International Vice-President of Mayors for Peace. I attended two anniversary events at … [Read more...]
Hospital parking raised in the election campaign, again:
The promise by Judith Collins that National will build a new car parking building if National get elected this year is interesting. I reflected on phrases like this from Gerry Brownlee: “It will be an instruction to the Ministry of Health to get a car park close-in to the hospital.” Then he … [Read more...]
The Cairn in the Square:
I received this query from Diana Shand who is asking a good question. Here it is: One question I would love answered, and perhaps the Tuesday Club folk can help – When will the stone cairn in the Square be removed? I thought it was all about having democracy at ECan. We have that now. Why can’t … [Read more...]
EduAction 2020 Forum Series:
CHALLENGING THE STUFF-UPS!& offering some solutions WEA Centre 59 Gloucester, Christchurch3 Thursdays in August 5.30 pm for 6 – 7.30 pm Koha to defray expenses please All Welcome Programme: with expert presenter/ faith respondent... August 6: Unregulated Capitalism … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 4 August 2020
We really are living in paradise here right now. The rest of the world is really struggling and this message uses humour to demonstrate it: … [Read more...]
New Zealand’s Green Grid
Nation-building is back! Guest post by Brendon Harré. Readers will know I have been a strong advocate for New Zealand building pumped hydro. For instance, I compiled a very detailed report earlier this year, including a very popular extended comment on the proposed Onslow pumped … [Read more...]
For and against pumped hydro
The electricity market is a complicated beast to understand and now the Government has proposed to add pumped hydro at Lake Onslow to the mix. You hear rather mixed messages from industry stakeholders about it. Brendon Harre wrote about pumped hydro in general for Garry’s newsletter earlier this … [Read more...]
Garry’s musings 28 July 2020
It appears that people are really concerned that we support those in our community who have been made vulnerable by Covid 19. I have had really wonderful responses from all sorts of people who read about the research which was conducted by the Wayne Francis Trust on employment programmes. This … [Read more...]
Last week: The Salt District
Last week we heard for the first time about the SALT district. They presented us with a number of ideas which were really stimulating. Here was a rich combination of public and private sectors working together to come up with ideas and projects which will shake the conservative forces which have … [Read more...]
This Week – more Salty Thoughts from ARC
I asked the speakers this week to describe themselves. They are working on an alternative design for the new multi-use arena. Here is the best they could do in describing themselves: “We are ARC. An inner-city think tank created to help put Christchurch on the world stage. We partner with people … [Read more...]
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