Local Government Reform for Sustainability – Mike Reid
Podcast: Mike Reid – Seminar – Local Government Reform for Sustainability
Mike Reid discusses Local Government Reform for Sustainability from a Local Government New Zealand perspective.
Mike Reid is Manager of Governance at Local Government New Zealand.
Prof Bob Lloyd – Transition to RE – Can it be made in time?
Podcast: Prof Bob Lloyd – Transition to RE – Can it be made in time?
Professor Bob Lloyd is from Australia, he came to New Zealand in 2002 after having worked for the Australian Coo-operative Research Centre for Renewable Energy (ACRE), based at Murdoch University in Perth. His current research interests at Otago University, where he is the Director of Energy Studies and Associate Professor in the Physics Department, lie in energy conservation in residential housing and energy management including world energy resources and peak oil.
Existing sources of energy such as fossil fuels and uranium are finite and so will eventually be depleted. If we want sustainable energy, the energy MUST come from renewable sources. The talk will examine if this can be done in time with existing resources. The talk will also look at the main problems, namely that our existing financial system is based upon continued economic growth and economic growth is based on a cheap and expanding energy supply.
Climate change impacts on occupational health: a forgotten issue – Tord Kjellstrom
Podcast: Climate change impacts on occupational health: a forgotten issue – Tord Kjellstrom
Professor Tord Kjellstrom
Director, Health and Environment International Trust, Nelson and Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University; also affiliated with University College London and Umea University, Sweden
Climate change is already creating a hotter environment during the hot season in most cities of the world. Heat stress at temperatures above 30 oC creates difficulties for people doing heavy physical labour. This is sometimes a problem in New Zealand in forestry work, and the problems will increase. In tropical countries where occupational heat stress occurs each day during many months each year, the increased workplace heat will impact on local economic development because the only way to reduce the serious heat stroke risk in jobs that cannot be artificially cooled, is to slow down work and reduce productivity. This effect of climate change has been very poorly analysed and presented in reviews of the impacts of climate change, and new research initiatives from New Zealand aim to make more evidence available.
Creating healthy, just and eco-sensitive cities – Professor Tony Capon
Podcast: Creating healthy, just and eco-sensitive cities – Professor Tony Capon
Tony Capon
Professor with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at Australian National University and convenes the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Human Health.
The health, social and environmental consequences of the current pattern of urban development in Australiaprovide a compelling rationale for a re-think of the way we are developing our cities. This seminar will examine the Australian urban health challenge and explore efforts by public health workers, urbanists and others to respond in the interest of the health of people and planet
Local Renewable Energy Policies and Actions: Global Survey and Prospects for New Zealand – Zach Rissel
Local Renewable Energy Policies and Actions: Global Survey and Prospects for New Zealand
Zach Rissel
Wellington City Council, Policy
Local Renewable Energy Policies and Actions: Global Survey and Prospects for New Zealand – Eric Martinot
Local Renewable Energy Policies and Actions: Global Survey and Prospects for New Zealand
Dr. Eric Martinot is the lead author of the widely-used REN21 Renewables Global Status Report and a prominent international expert on renewable energy. He is senior research director at the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo, teaching and research associate of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and teaching and research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington.
Making the Right Turn – Dwayne Fletcher
Podcast: Making the Right Turn – Dwayne Fletcher
Making the Right Turn, How policy, planning, investment, and behaviour will adapt with oil production and the climate
Dwayne Fletcher
Senior Policy Advisor (Strategic Development), Hutt City Council
Making the Right Turn – Susan Krumdieck
Podcast: Making the Right Turn – Susan Krumdieck
Making the Right Turn, How policy, planning, investment, and behaviour will adapt with oil production and the climate
Dr Susan Krumdieck
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury. Director of Advanced Energy and Material Systems Lab (www.aemslab.org.nz) pioneering R&D in transitional technologies and systems for power, fuels and transport.
