Presentation given to the Environment and Sustainability Forum on 20 September 2011. The Chair, Cr Wayne Walker is an enthusiastic supporter of community gardens. Kia Ora Koutou Katoa Thank you Chair and Councillors for the opportunity to speak to the Forum this afternoon. It is very exciting that you have the Community Garden report on your [...]
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Educated at Auckland Girls’ Equipped for the World
Congratulations to all the girls who won prizes and awards at the AGGS Senior Prizegiving today. I was very proud to be there as an AGGS Old Girl and representative of the Waitemata Local Board to award the Western Bays Community Board School Textbook Grant of $400. After a break of 25 years I’ve managed [...]
Day after the super city election-a huge global working bee
It is hard to imagine getting up for a huge working bee the day after the election on 9 October. Hopefully I will have a big hangover from celebrating the election of Mayor Len Brown, Councillor Mike Lee and the whole City Vision team. But global action has to happen on climate change with communities [...]
Online Community Management at Wordcamp
Since joining the Steering Committee of Grey Lynn 2030 18 months ago I have been impressively up-skilled. I put in a lot of voluntary hours into Grey Lynn 2030 but have been rewarded many times over through learning and networking opportunities, contact with inspiring people and a range of new skills. In particular I have [...]
AECT Election: The Power is With the Community
Press Release: Grey Lynn 2030 28 October 2009 With only 2 days remaining in the AECT election a disappointing 14.65% of eligible voters have so far returned postal ballots to decide the 5 trustees of the Trust. At the same time in the 2003 election the turnout was only slightly better at 17.5%. Independent Candidate [...]
