Conservation Week events
It’s Conservation Week and there are a number of worthwhile seminars / lectures / public meetings and debates going on. Here are details of WWF’s events being held at Te Papa, and here is what Wellington Cathedral of St Paul has planned, including a talk at lunchtime today by Anthony Dancer of the Anglican Church who enjoyed some media coverage on the issue of climate change last week, and a debate at lunchtime on Thursday between a Green Party team led by Jeanette and members of the Victoria University Debating Society.
My knowledge of events is limited to Wellington, so if you know about events in other centres, please post them in the comments thread!
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August 8th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
And Pataka! You forgot Pataka museum in Porirua which has a huge event all week for Conservation Week (including an exhibition curated by Sue Kedgley’s sister!)
August 8th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
My bad. Here’s what’s on at Pataka.
August 9th, 2006 at 12:48 am
“a debate at lunchtime on Thursday between a Green Party team led by Jeanette and members of the Victoria University Debating Society.”
Nice.
But WHERE on campus might that be held (given the options of Kelburn/Pipitea, it’s worthwhile knowing…).
Yours, the eternally over-committed for time, katie
August 9th, 2006 at 1:18 am
oops, flag that last request, just found the link to the Anglican Cathedral showing the debating soc and Jeanette’s team there at lunchtime Thursday….
Insomnia loses! Feel free to munge both comments, frog….
August 9th, 2006 at 8:44 am
Will leave them there, katie, in case others were wondering the same thing!
Here also is what DOC have organised for the week, with links to what’s going on in different regions.
August 9th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
More info about that debate tomorrow:
Green Party Co-Leader and Transport Spokesperson Jeanette Fitzsimons is to lead a Green team to debate transport funding against a team of award-winning student debaters from Victoria University tomorrow lunchtime.
The Green team, consisting of Ms Fitzsimons, Brent Efford (Coordinator of Transport 2000-Plus and New Zealand Area Officer for the Light Rail Transit Association), and Roland Sapsford (Wellington environmental consultant and transport expert), will affirm that moot: “Everybody’s Money: There is far too much for Roading, far too little for Public Transport�.
The negating team will consist of Josh Cameron (Captain of the New Zealand Universities’ Impromptu Debating Team), Clodagh O’Conor-McKenna (former winner of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Debating Championships), and Christopher Bishop (winner of five New Zealand university debating tournaments).
The debate will be chaired by John Morrison, Chancellor for the Anglican Diocese of Wellington. It is part of a series of Conservation Week lunch hour talks being hosted this week by the Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul.
What: Conservation Week debate on transport funding
When: 12pm, Thursday, 10 August
Where: Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul, Molesworth Street
August 9th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Looking forward to it.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
frog:
Will the debate be recorded for those of us who are not in Wellington?
August 14th, 2006 at 7:03 am
heads-up..!
i’ve linked to a new 60 minute doco by john pilger on ‘the new rulers of the world”..
it can be viewed on-line…if anyone is interested..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
August 14th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Thanks phil!