Low Carbon Kapiti and Conservation
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AGM and film screening
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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 […]
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Can Aotearoa NZ fly high on biomass?
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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Solar PV on the Kāpiti Coast
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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?
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- 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?
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- 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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Our ghost airport: An opportunity to build much needed houses
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- By Paul Callister, 19 August 2022 After years of Kāpiti ratepayers subsidising a just a few passengers per day to fly out of Kāpiti airport, its closure in its current form gets closer. So what are the alternatives? There are those still lobbying to keep the airport open. The key group is the Kāpiti Aeroclub. […]
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Kapiti Coast Airport, Tainui Street, Raumati Beach, Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, 5252, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Decarbonising aviation: Fact or magical solutions?
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- By Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan, 15 August 2022 Right now, we burn 10 tonnes of jet fuel every second – that’s an Olympic swimming pool every three minutes. To replace this with sustainable aviation fuel would require the current production to be increased by over 1,000 times. Aviation Accelerator Group, 2022 In 2021 at […]
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Local Trains, Regional Trains and Long-Distance Trains – Low Emission Travel
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- By Michael Nicholson, 8 August 2022 Rail Transport – Green Credentials Rail transport is a very energy efficient form of transport with excellent green credentials. Steel-wheels upon steel-rails provides low friction and therefore low rolling resistance, resulting in much reduced energy usage compared to air and road transport. KiwiRail is said to cause 70% less […]
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Why intercity needs to be part of public transport
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- By Heidi O’Callahan and Paul Callister, 31 July 2022 Long distance coaches, linking communities and reducing emissions Long distance coaches form an existing, widespread transport network that many New Zealanders do not give much thought to. Yet they are an important service for people living in and near towns and smaller cities, connecting them with […]
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My vehicle is ‘bigger than yours’: The David and Goliath struggle on our roads and footpaths
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- By Judith Galtry, 24 July 2022 “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” —E.F. Schumacher I don’t drive very often. Yet I’m experiencing disturbing levels of road rage, both on and off […]
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Wishing for fairy dust – why the NZ Biofuels Obligation is the worst kind of magical thinking
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- By Jake Roos, BSc (Hons), MAppSc Energy Management11 July 2022 Wouldn’t it be great if wishes came true, and all your problems just went away? If all you needed to do is ask for something and it materialised out of thin air before you? Of course it would, but the world doesn’t work like that. […]
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The Poplar Avenue crossing campaign: Some history and future directions
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- By Paul Callister, 8 July 2022 A previous blog has highlighted the success of the Poplar Avenue crossing campaign supported by Low Carbon Kāpiti. Here is some deeper history of the campaign plus some ideas as to how we can conitune to improve our cycling network. So why the campaign? We know we have to […]
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Degrowth – the word to hate and then accept
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- By Deirdre Kent Yes, it’s an awful word but we won’t try and change it because there are already over 500 academic articles on degrowth. The movement is strong in Europe. This diagram shows the occurrence of key words in books since 2010. We have recently started a group called Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ). […]
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The continuing campaign for a safe crossing of Poplar Avenue
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- By Sahra Kress It is no secret that nearly everyone who lives in Raumati South has come to see this missing crossing for a main cycle path as a scandal over many years. Poplar Avenue funnels traffic off a motorway, past a school, and around a blind corner with an adjoining main road, and walkers […]
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Poplar Avenue, Raumati South, Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, 5032, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Feeling and responding to the climate and ecological crises
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- By Rick Williment, registered psychotherapist, climate activist The disciplines of psychology and psychotherapy have a contribution to make to humanity’s greatest collective struggle: the urgent, dire need to find meaningful responses to the rapidly escalating climate and ecological crises. These crises that imperil so much that we love; so much that we belong to; so […]
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A plant-based diet and kerbside collection of food waste: More ways to cut emissions
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- By Paul Callister Plant-based diets and better managing food waste provide ways of reducing emissions. According to OraTaio: NZ Climate and Health Council co-convenor Dr Alexandra Macmillan a plant-based diet with less meat and dairy could transform the country’s health while also slashing emissions. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also promote switching to a […]
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