Time Constraints

As much as I would have liked - I'm extremely time poor. I have a young family and full time work to attend to.
I can't take anymore on at the moment and am calling for help to organise a public event to get TT underway locally.

I certainly would have like to have had something underway by now - but I just don't have the local contacts to get the ball rolling.

Is there anyone out there that would like to help?

Action

March 12th - Presentation made to the Management Team of the Manawatu District Council.
May 13th - Submission made to the Manawatu District Council's Annual Plan process - (Submission to be posted here soon)
May 13th - Spoke to the Manawatu Branch of Forest and Bird at their Feilding meeting.
May 26th - Verbal presentation to the Manawatu District Council's Annual Plan process - 1.45 pm
June - Presentation to the Western Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects
July - Quick presentation to the Manawatu Branch meeting of Forest and Bird

August - Presentation and Discussion to staff and clients of WHK Coffey Davidson. The presentation on the 8th of August included in the audience the Mayor of Hastings District Lawrence Yule - who had recently been elected as President of Local Government New Zealand. The comments he made publicly afterwards to the audience left everyone in no doubt of the seriousness of the situation and that he understands the issues.

August 12th - Letter to the editor in the Evening Standard in response to the visions that Vision Manawatu has for the year 2025.

Lending Library

Please add to this list if you have films or books you are happy to share.

We have copies of a few movies and books that can be lend out:

• End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion & The Collapse of the American Dream
• Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
• Escape from Suburbia
• Arithmetic, Population and Energy, a lecture by Dr Albert Bartlett (73 mins)
• Sonia Shah's 30-minute audio on Crude: The story of Oil. Or you can download it here.
• The Last Oil Shock - David Strahan
• The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler
• The Transition Handbook - From Local oil dependancy to local resilience - Rob Hopkins
• World Made By Hand - James Howard Kunstler

Contact

For more information call or txt Blair on 027 2288118, or email blair.m.rogers@gmail.com