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Environmental issues in Motueka
This area of the website is for anyone to initiate a discussion on any local issue that affects or may affect the environment in the Motueka area. People taking part must be locals or have a genuine local interest.
Postings are moderated for offensive or libellous material, or for blatant advertising, but otherwise will be uncensored. Discussions not specific to environmental matters should be held on the General Discussion Forum pages.
Also note that we will try to give everyone a fair shot, and will not allow particular individuals to dominate topics with repeated entries unless answering specific comments.
At this point you can do one of two things:
• Read and/or comment on a discussion topic or thread that is currently running
• Start a new discussion topic or thread
The most recently added topics are:
Time to think about the earth
[Posted: April 21st, 2010]
EARTH DAY is April 22. At the moment we are in deep trouble because the technological-economic paradigm ignores the ecological evidence that the earth has limited natural resources and carrying capacity. How do you think we could remedy
this situation?
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Mining Schedule 4 land in National parks
(Posted: April 14th)
Our protected areas must remain protected. These areas all have outstanding conservation values, which is why they were protected in the first place! Native forests are becoming rare - and special - world wide. Schedule 4 was put in place by the National Government to protect and safeguard the future of our core conservation areas. It would appear irresponsible to reverse this decision.
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Ecofest Eat Local Food Challenge
(Posted: March 14th)
On the Ecofest website (www.ecofestnelsontasman.co.nz) there is a list of organic producers and retailers in our region with the possibility of having others added to the list. Could that be a role for someone in Transition Motueka to scour the countryside for food and beverage producers as well as retailers?
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Motueka High School Community Issues surveys:
The school's Year 10 Community Issues class investigates various local issues, one per term, to learn how to conduct scientific social research and to help the Motueka community as a whole to better understand these issues and address them. Community Issues as part of an Enrichment programme along with Careers, Environmental studies etc. Click here to find links to reports that have been researched since the start of 2009, under the guidance of teacher Bruce Reid.
