The Kapiti Coast is located on a geologically recently formed sand plain. The KapitiCoast wetlands have largely formed as dune slack wetlands and the soil iscomprised of peat on top of sand. Over 211 wetlands that have been categorised14of which have been designated ‘Outstanding” and 197 as “Significant”. Most are classified as swamps with a ... Read more
Low Carbon Kāpiti has lodged its submission on the Kāpiti Coast District Council’s Draft Emissions Reduction Plan 2026–2030 – and the headline is a simple one. Cutting emissions isn’t a cost. Done well, it’s one of the biggest savings opportunities the District has. Our central finding: committed, action-focused leadership could save ratepayers in the order ... Read more
The Regulatory Standards Bill is a pivotal piece of legislation with significant implications for New Zealand’s democratic processes, environmental protections, and social safeguards. The far reaching impacts are tantamount to constitutional reform and are being pushed through by ACT as part of its agenda of putting the interests of a wealthy few ahead of everything and everyone […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This year’s AGM features a keynote from Michael Upchurch, Publisher at Te Papa Press, the award winning publishing arm of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Tiana Jaber and the Wellington Phoenix have mutually agreed to terminate the remainder of her contract with the club. The Lebanese international defender featured 39 times for the Phoenix over the past two and a half seasons, having arrived in... The post Jaber farewells the Nix appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
