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September 2010

Posted in behaviour change and housing & building and news & events and podcasts and urban design

Action for Sustainable Buildings – A UK/NZ Comparison

UPDATE – VIDEO PODCASTS FROM SEMINAR AVAILABLE Podcast: Jake Roos – Action for sustainable buildings – A UK/NZ comparison (Quicktime movie, 69 MB) Podcast: Michael Keall – Housing Quality Assessment (Quicktime movie, 58 MB) Podcast: Duncan Joiner Response (Quicktime movie, 46 MB) Tuesday, 23 September, 12:00 -1:30pm Small Lecture Theatre, Level D, Wellington School of [...]

Posted in behaviour change and health and news & events

Wellington invite – Water Whisperers Tangaroa

Shot in stunning locations around New Zealand, this film explores the work of ten communities as they seek to heal damaged waterways and protect them for future generations.

Posted in behaviour change and climate change and health and news & events

Signs of Change – 15-16 November 2010

1 Nation, 2 Days, 40 Signs of Change of Emerging Sustainability in Aotearoa 15-16 November 2010 Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, Palmerston North, Hamilton www.signsofchange.org.nz

Posted in Uncategorized and climate change and health and news & events

20th International Clean Air and Environment Conference – Call for Abstracts

Christchurch Convention Centre Christchurch, New Zealand Tuesday 5th – Friday 8th July 2011 Call for abstracts document

Posted in behaviour change and health and news & events and podcasts and transport and urban design and urban governance

Seminar: Parking… the missing link in the future evolution of our cities.

PODCASTS NOW AVAILABLE: Podcast: Julie Anne Genter (Quicktime movie, 63 MB) Podcast: Angus HUlme-Moir (Quicktime movie, 40 MB) Podcast: Philip King (Quicktime movie, 41 MB)  Julie Anne Genter is a consultant for McCormick Rankin Cagney and a specialist in parking management reform. She has worked with cities in New Zealand and Australia, and presented the new parking paradigm [...]

Posted in news & events and transport

CYCLE ACTION AUCKLAND – URBAN DESIGN PRESENTATION

Cycle Action Auckland has great pleasure in inviting you to a special presentation and panel discussion to coincide with their AGM. We all loved Jan Gehl’s vision for Auckland showing us how good urban design is the key to a liveable city.

Posted in news & events and transport

The Inaugural Conference of the UK Campaign for Free Public Transport is now accepting bookings

The Inaugural Conference of the UK Campaign for Free Public Transport is now accepting bookings.

Posted in NZ policy issues and behaviour change and climate change and health and news & events and transport and urban design

Atmosphere Update 01, August 2010

NIWA Link The Healthy Urban Atmosphere research programme is New Zealand’s only long-term air quality research programme. NIWA is leading the programme, which is funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, and is collaborating with a number of other NZ and overseas organisations. Here we bring you updates from a selection of the [...]

Posted in news & events and urban design

Mana Kaitiaki – Indigenous Planning and Environmental Decision Making

The 2010 Conference is to be hosted by Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi (TWWoA) in Whakatane, New Zealand, 24 to 26 November 2010 http://conferences.wananga.ac.nz/mana-kaitiaki.html

Posted in housing & building and news & events and urban design

Invitation – Vancouver 2010 Olympic Sustainable village – the Challenge Series

Millennium Water – the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Village Vancouver, Canada Sustainable community development Roger Bayley Inc are in the process of publishing a series of case studies on the development of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Village  –

Posted in NZ policy issues and behaviour change and news & events

Comments on the Draft New Zealand Energy Strategy from Researchers at the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities

We find the vision of the Draft Strategy limited. We believe the stated vision is one more suitable to the 20th century, than the 21st. The stated vision is unclear and uninspiring, located firmly within the silo of energy use with no acknowledgement of the urgency and severity of climate change, peak oil or of [...]