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PODCASTS ADDED
Podcast: Podcast: Barbara Israel: Community Engagement in Policy making and Planning
Podcast: Podcast: Christine Jacobson, Senior Policy Analyst, Porirua City Council
Podcast: Barbara Israel and Christine Jacobson: Questions and answers
Community Engagement in Policy making and Planning:
Prof Barbara Israel, DrPH, MPH, Professor Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan has published widely in the areas of: the social and physical environmental determinants of health and health inequalities; the relationship among stress, social support, control and physical and mental health; community empowerment and health; and community-based participatory research (CBPR). She has extensive experience conducting community-based participatory research in collaboration with partners in diverse communities. Since 1995, she has worked together with academic and community partners to establish and maintain the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, initially funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Israel is actively involved in several of these CBPR projects examining and addressing, for example, the social and physical environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease, the environmental triggers of childhood asthma, access to food and physical activity spaces, diabetes management and prevention, and capacity building for and translating research findings into policy change
Christine Jacobson is a Senior Policy Analyst, Porirua City Council.
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PODCASTS NOW AVAILABLE
Dr. Eric Martinot
Podcast: Prof Bob Lloyd
Podcast: Caroline Ryder
Podcast: Eion Scott
This seminar will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of the transition to renewable energy; what’s likely to be needed and what’s likely to be possible. Through the different perspectives and viewpoints we hope to interrogate more thoroughly what’s needed and by when.
Dr. Eric Martinot is an internationally recognized scholar and teacher on renewable energy. He is lead author and research director emeritus of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, an annual synthesis of the state of renewable energy worldwide. He serves as senior research director with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Japan, teaching fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, and senior visiting scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE). He was formerly a senior energy specialist with the World Bank and is author of 70 publications on sustainable energy. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Bob Lloyd is from Australia, he came to New Zealand in 2002 after having worked for the Australian Coo-operative Research Centre for Renewable Energy (ACRE), based at Murdoch University in Perth. He has also worked on renewable energy systems in China and the Pacific Islands and taught at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. His current research interests at Otago University, where he is the Director of Energy Studies and Associate Professor in the Physics Department, lie in energy conservation in residential housing and energy management including world energy resources and peak oil. His PhD from Flinders University in South Australia was completed in the field of experimental atomic physics.
Caroline Ryder is a senior policy analyst at the Ministry of Economic Development. She currently works on renewable energy and RMA policy.
Eion Scott, Eco Design Advisor in the Building Policy unit of Auckland Council, has a background in communications and social marketing, is currently chairman of the Sustainable Living Education Trust and is actively involved with efforts to green the Christchurch rebuild. Eion specialised in energy efficiency while promoting Environment Canterbury’s Clean Heat Project, and is one of a dozen Eco Design Advisors trained by BRANZ to give free, practical, tailored advice to homeowners, architects and the building trade. He helped develop Auckland Council’s policy around solar hot water building consents and is involved in piloting the Council’s eco-loans programme, Retrofit Your Home, and the Green Building Council’s new Homestar© certified rating.
29 September 2010 – 12:49 pm
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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 Medicine,
23a Mein St, Newtown, Wellington
Jake Roos has recently returned from the UK where he was the lead officer on climate change and energy issies for Uttlesford District Council in Essex. He graduated with a MAppSc in Energy Management from the University of Otago Energy Studies Programme in 2004
Dr. Michael Keall is an injury epidemiologist in the Department of Public Health. He is managing major research projects looking at the potential to reduce fall injuries in homes by fixing hazards in the home and the development of a housing quality index suited to New Zealand housing.
Respondent – Duncan Joiner, Chief Architect, Department of Building & Housing.
PDF Flyer
10 September 2010 – 7:11 pm
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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 at numerous conferences, seminars and events.
Angus Hulme-Moir has recently completed his master’s degree in environmental studies at Victoria University on the topic of the role that parking policy can play in achieving sustainable transport goals. Angus was a New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities Scholarship recipient in 2009.
Philip King, Hamilton City Council, Access Hamilton Coordinator. His role is the face of ‘active travel’ for the council, and invovled construction of the city cycle network, improvements for pedestrians, promotion of walking and cycling using the media and websites, and trying to understand and help with resident’s concerns and fears about being on foot or bike. He is also working to deliver national and local strategies to do what we can to increase levels of sustainable travel and at the same time reduce accidents., air pollution and congestion.
PDF Julie Anne Genter Presentation
PDF Angus Hulme-Moir Presentation
August, 11:30 -1:00pm
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Hosted by the Institute of Policy Studies:
The effectiveness of interventions to encourage environmentally friendly behaviours: An Overview.
Friday, 30 July, 12:30 -1:30pm
Railway West Wing Room 501, Entrance through Railway Station, take Lift 3 to Level 5
Victoria University of Wellington, Pipitea Campus
PODCASTS AVAILABLE:
Podcast: Dr Wokje Abrahamse – The effectiveness of interventions to encourage env friendly behaviour (Quicktime movie, 78 MB)
Podcast: Dr Sea Rotmann – EECA (Quicktime movie, 58 MB)
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Video Podcasts from Seminar now available:
Podcast: Prof Claire Freeman – Children’s changing worlds: Do our cities work for children? (Quicktime movie, 108 Mb)
Podcast: Barbara Lambourn – Child friendly cities and communities (Quicktime movie, 40 Mb)
Podcast: Dr Adrian Field – Consultation, kids and Manukau City (Quicktime movie, 46 Mb)
Wednesday 16 June, 12-1.30pm.
NORDMEYER LECTURE THEATRE,
Wellington School of Medicine,
23a Mien St, Newtown, Wellington
Professor Claire Freeman is Associate Professor and Director of the Post Graduate Planning Programme at the Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand. Read More »
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Podcast: Susan Krumdieck – Transition Engineering
Associate Professor Susan Krumdieck is a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Canterbury University.
Susan Krumdieck discusses transition engineering. Filmed during her speaking tour of New Zealand as the IET’s 2010 Prestige lecturer on the 21st of April 2010.
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Podcast: Prof Bob Lloyd – Transition to RE – Can it be made in time (Quicktime movie, 134 MB)
Podcast: Prof Lloyd – Transition to RE - Questions (Quicktime movie, 72 MB)
PDF of Presentation
Professor Bob Lloyd is from Australia, he came to New Zealand in 2002 after having worked for the Australian Coo-operative Research Centre for Renewable Energy (ACRE), based at Murdoch University in Perth. His current research interests at Otago University, where he is the Director of Energy Studies and Associate Professor in the Physics Department, lie in energy conservation in residential housing and energy management including world energy resources and peak oil.
Existing sources of energy such as fossil fuels and uranium are finite and so will eventually be depleted. If we want sustainable energy, the energy MUST come from renewable sources. The talk will examine if this can be done in time with existing resources. The talk will also look at the main problems, namely that our existing financial system is based upon continued economic growth and economic growth is based on a cheap and expanding energy supply.
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Podcast: Local Renewable Energy Policies and Actions: Global Survey and Prospects for New Zealand – Eric Martinot
(Quicktime movie, 131 MB)
Podcast: Local Renewable Energy Policies and Actions: Global Survey and Prospects for New Zealand – Zach Rissel
(Quicktime movie, 39 MB)
Two lectures were held one in Wellington (March 30) and one in Auckland. Guest speakers were Dr Eric Martinot and Zach Rissel from the Wellington City Council. These lectures were well received. Links to podcasts from those lectures are attached above. Copies of the PDF’s are attached below.
Dr. Martinot is the lead author of the widely-used REN21 Renewables Global Status Report and a prominent international expert on renewable energy. He is senior research director at the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo, teaching and research associate of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and teaching and research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington.
Wellington Flyer
Auckland Flyer
Zach Rissel: Influencing the transition to renewable energy.
Dr E Martinot: Local renewable energy policies and actions.
