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Chairperson’s Report – LCK AGM 22 Sept 2024
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- Firstly, thank you to our guest Jessica Palairet from Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc for her time, presentation and important work. My thanks to the committee and everyone who contributed this year. Thanks especially Jean Fleming for playing host and doing our newsletter. Jean is now standing down after many years service to Low […]
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Taking climate action to the courts public talk + 2024 AGM
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- 1pm Sunday 22 September. Ocean Road Community Centre, Paraparaumu Beach. There are many avenues for citizens to achieve positive climate action. Turning to the courts is one way that is being successfully used to ensure effective action against climate change, including in New Zealand. Lawyers for Climate Action NZ is a group of barristers, solicitors, […]
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Low Carbon Kāpiti submission on the draft second national emissions reduction plan (ERP2)
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- The New Zealand government is consulting on the draft second national emissions reduction plan (ERP2) until 25 August 2024.
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Documents for 2024 AGM: Friends of Mana Island
- Friends of Mana Island
- Draft minutes from 2023 AGM Friends of Mana Island 2023 Performance Report Friends of Mana Island
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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FOMI work trip reports – 2022-2024
- Friends of Mana Island
- FOMI work trip report 2-5 December 2022 FOMI work trip report 24-27 March 2023 FOMI work trip report – 3 & 4 June 2023 8-10 Sept 2023: https://manaisland.
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Ecological monitoring trip reports – 2023
- Friends of Mana Island
- These reports in particular cover seabird monitoring and banding of seabirds on Mana Island.
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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FOMI work trip report 2-5 December 2022
- Friends of Mana Island
- Don Newman, Peter Simpson, Colin Miskelly and Dale Shirtliff travelled to Mana Island around 8am Friday morning. Travelling so early meant we had an extra day. Don focussed on unearthing the 26 spotted skink pitfall traps Lynn Adams had installed some time ago. Dale assisted Don in the morning and Peter with his light welling […]
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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FOMI work trip report – 3 & 4 June 2023
- Friends of Mana Island
- Richard Nichol and I (Dale Shirtliff) boarded Mataara 2 at 7.15am Saturday 3rd June. Richard is an ecologist and works on the West Coast. Richard had not been to Mana before and it was clear the trip was a highlight for him. After the biosecurity check and a cup of tea Richard and I headed […]
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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FOMI work trip report 24-27 March 2023
- Friends of Mana Island
- Adrian Jull, Mike Jacobson, Deb Anthony and Dale Shirtliff travelled to Mana Island shortly after midday Friday 24 March. Almost calm conditions. We were met by Jane Haxton , stand-in for Pat Elliot. Our aim for the weekend was to carry out maintenance on the fluttering shearwater and WFSP burrow sites. This had been an […]
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Travelling Fresh...by Bike
- Sustainability Trust Wellington
- Rediscovering the joys of biking with a 6-year-old! Hear from another staff member who shares her story of her families’ move away from the private vehicle school run.
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AGM and film screening
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- On Monday 4 September 2023, we had our Annual General Meeting, followed by a film screening of a short documentary “We Can Produce Our Own Power”, produced by 350.org Aotearoa and featuring Kapiti Coast charity ‘Energise Ōtaki‘. Energise Ōtaki chairperson Leigh Ramsey gave a talk after, telling the group more about their solar array shown […]
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Can Aotearoa NZ fly high on biomass?
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Paul Callister, Don’t Burn Our Future, 24 June 2023 The Climate Change Commission is calling for evidence as to whether emissions from international shipping and aviation should be included in the emissions reduction target (‘the 2050 target’). Given the need to dramatically and rapidly reduce all GHG emissions, it is vital all sectors must […]
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Speed Management Plan for Kāpiti
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- From the LCK Committee, 20 May 2023 KCDC is now looking for feedback on its first Speed Management Plan, which outlines how the transport network is expected to look in ten years time, with an emphasis on lower speeds, and our seeking the views of ratepayers. LCK plans to make a submission on the Plan […]
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What our supporters have to say about the NZ Biofuels Obligation
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Jake Roos, 22 December 2022 Low Carbon Kāpiti set up the ‘Don’t Burn Our Future’ campaign in July 2022 to try and stop the government from bringing in its planned biofuels obligation law. We’ve campaigned hard this year in a multitude of different ways which are documented on our campaign webpage and Facebook page. […]
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Wharemauku Wetland Park
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Paul Callister, 17 November 2022 Every great city has a park at its centre. While Paraparaumu is not New York, we can learn from that city’s visionary planners. We now have the potential to create a park at the centre of our own community. Due to a bankruptcy, 28 hectares of centrally located land […]
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Passenger Rail Inquiry submission
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Jake Roos, 11 November 2022 Asher Wilson-Goldman and myself presented to the Transport Select Committee inquiry on 27 October on behalf of Low Carbon Kāpiti regarding restoring passenger rail services between our cities. You can read our submission below, which was prepared in large part by Paul Callister (Thanks Paul!). Also, due to the […]
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Kāpiti Marine Reserve 30 years on...
- Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve
- Stephanie Brenssell, 2022 recipient of the Kevin Smith Memorial scholarship, investigates how have attitudes and connections to the reserve changed over the past three decades?
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Kapiti Marine Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Solar PV on the Kāpiti Coast
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Jake Roos, 21 October 2022 Solar photovoltaic panels have become a mass market product whose deployment is now being driven by market forces instead of government subsidies. In fact, Aotearoa NZ never had subsidies for solar PV – we are reaping the benefits of those set in other countries, some decades ago, that led […]
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Stepping up
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Paul Callister, 10 October 2022 This is the final blogpost of this series. It has been a collection of articles on local and national issues leading up to the local body elections. In this final post, we will look back at some of the themes we have covered and consider what it means to […]
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Reflections on Sufficiency and Simplicity
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- By Sahra Kress, community midwife, 8 October 2022 “When we lose the Earth, if we lose the Earth,oh how desperately we will long to go back to how it was. How we will wish that we had not taken all of this for granted” Peter Kalmus, NASA scientist And how we will wish that we had […]
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How Kāpiti could become the Holland of the South
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- By Paul Callister, 3 October 2022 Kāpiti consists of a series of villages and towns linked by the main state highway and the main trunk railway line. Many of the settlements were originally built near or around a railway station. The flat topography, transport layout and generally good weather means that most areas of housing […]
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The Paekākāriki Wind Generation Project
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- By Graeme Mills, 30 September 2022 A potential wind electricity-generating project exists on the hills above Paekākāriki. The objective of the project is to provide renewable energy to the village of Paekākāriki, with surplus energy distributed via the local line network to other parts of Kāpiti. It is hoped that the community would have an […]
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An Extraordinary Birth Witnessed at Ngā Manu
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Sahra Kress, Community Midwife, 20 September 2022 As a midwife, I have witnessed amazingly diverse births over the last 18 years, ranging from births in the hinterlands of Papua New Guinea, in the slum hospital of Vanuatu, to grass huts in the Solomon Islands. I have attended births on the linen couches of gorgeous […]
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Could a shorter working week help us to reduce flying?
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- Dr Kirsty Wild, The University of Auckland 15 September 2022 Amongst all the debate about what social changes might stick post Covid, perhaps the most promising development so far seems to be the re-evaluation of how (and indeed if) we want to work. The campaign for a four-day working week has received a welcome boost. […]
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Being the best you in a dystopia
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- One person’s Utopia is another’s Dystopia By Anthony Britton, 12 September 2022 Dear reader if you’re having a bad day you may find this article hard to read, it was very hard to write without feeling depressed and without hope. The Covid-19 pandemic, with the misery, suffering and death this has brought all around the […]
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Kāpiti Coast Biodiversity
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- By Andy McKay, 5 September 2022 Team Leader, Environment & Ecological Services (Te Kaiārahi Rōpū Ratonga Taiao me te Hauropi), Kāpiti Coast District Council The Kāpiti Coast is blessed with some incredibly beautiful landscapes. From a biodiversity perspective, the jewel in the crown is Kāpiti Island, which provides a guiding light for those of us working […]
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Shifting to a low carbon Kāpiti survey – have your say
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Jake Roos, 5 September 2022 Kāpiti Coast District Council have opened a survey to get locals’ views on setting a target and plan to reduce the district’s greenhouse gas emissions. This is a tricky business because the district council has a limited degree of influence on emitting activities in the district. Many other local […]
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Can We Use Wood to Decarbonize New Zealand Transport… or Not?
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Paul Callister, David Keat, Robert McLachlan and Jake Roos, 30 August 2022 The proposed NZ Biofuels Obligation will mean fuel suppliers must blend a percentage of biofuel with petrol and diesel from 1 April 2023 or face steep fines. The government wants this biofuel to be sustainably produced in New Zealand, but their own […]
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The swamps are coming back. What are we going to do about it?
- Low Carbon Kapiti
- By Alison Lash, 27 August 2022 As most of us probably know, much of the Kāpiti coastal plain used to be a swamp. Prior to Pākehā settlement, Māori used and managed the area as a vast food basket. Pākehā settlers were unable to recognise the value of the area as a food source – to […]
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The Beauty of Simplicity- Tiny House Living
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- The overlooked opportunity in response to the housing problem and climate emergency By Sahra Kress, 25 August 2022 I have a lot I could say about living simply, but I will restrain myself to a few brief paragraphs about so-called ‘tiny houses’, and let the pictures say the rest. These small dwellings are now ubiquitous […]
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