Blogs / August 2023
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Q: Is your city any good? A: Depends how green it is
- Talk Wellington
- “Why are you moving to That City?” “Well, a few reasons …but mostly it’s just greener than all the others we were considering” This is an interesting piece, arguing that cities are being increasingly defined by their sustainability and greenness. This was surprising as we’d only relaly thought of cities being “defined” fairly traditional definitions...
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Let’s be less rubbish about waste – have your say pronto!
- Talk Wellington
- This one almost got away on us: the Wellington Regional Waste Management and Minimisation Plan needs your shove – closing Friday 5pm! There’s a lot of good intention in there and it’s badly needed. We are a bit rubbish about waste in New Zealand, including Wellington region. At the Southern Landfill, which has probably the...
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Better trains for Te Upoko o te Ika? Tune in!
- Talk Wellington
- Wellington’s metropolitan (suburban) rail upgrade has been a long time coming, and a long time in the delivering. Tune in to a livestream Thursday 31st August to hear more. It’ll be a combined effort with Horizons Manawatū District Council as the outer parts of Te Upoko o te Ika are the focus of the talk:...
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Jazz to the Maxx
- Eye of the Fish
- In a recent news story on The Post, which may not have appeared on the Stuff, there was an article on a proposed new building...
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Ebikes + community power = everyday magic
- Talk Wellington
- One of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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Architectural Centre – a Study in Teamwork
- Eye of the Fish
- The Architectural Centre was founded in Wellington in 1946 and set off at a cracking pace – starting architecture and town planning schools, mounting the...
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Kapiti Densiti
- Eye of the Fish
- In the news today, the Post reports that Kapiti Council have agreed on new Density rules for their larger urban areas. That will mean that...
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Review: Music To Die For
- The Wellingtonista
- Noted Wellington improv troupe Best on Tap is back performing this month with a new iteration of their grounded and clever improv in a show using your music suggestions! Music To Die For takes six songs that you (the audience) would play at your funeral and uses them to inspire layered, complex scenes about the […]
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Friedrich Eisenhofer
- Eye of the Fish
- Sad news, but not entirely unexpected. Friedrich (Fritz) Eisenhofer has passed away, at the splendid ripe old age of 96. NZIA has sent out a...
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e-scooters: don’t ban them by accident
- Talk Wellington
- A temporary exemption in official classifications means we get to have e-scooters in NZ. But that exemption’s expiring and there’s real “baby goes out with bathwater” risk, so pop in your 2c BY 5PM MONDAY 7th! If you want to do this real quick, scroll to …. you guessed, it, our friend the typing cat!...
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Review: Dirty Work
- The Wellingtonista
- By Talia Carlisle An ode to joy! For the first time recently I joined a choir, and as we joined together as strangers to sing, holding our music and raising our voices in harmony, I could feel such joy and togetherness lifting everyone up, and connecting us together while also creating a melodic story told […]
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