Posts Tagged ‘Climate crisis’
What it takes to be a climate prepared city
Adapting to the many and various challenges of global warming, from an urban development perspective, requires an understanding of the hydrological landscape that underlies the city so that a master plan can emerge that increases green space and public space, encourages biodiversity, and reduces flooding and the possibility of flood-water contamination.
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Green steel
Steel is one of those materials that we cannot imagine a future without. Although there are some applications where wood based materials can replace it, its just such a useful material and it can be fully recycled, so surely there’s a way of producing it which doesn’t cost us the earth.
Read MoreClimate Change – New Zealand Needs To Do Better
Peter Whitmore, ESR member, discusses the state of New Zealand’s readiness for climate change, with particular reference to the continuing use of large quantities of coal at the Huntly power station. Alternatives are readily available for electricity generation.
Read MoreHigh Expectations For The Climate Commission – Will Government’s Action Push Us Fast Enough?
Save the buildings and save the climate Save the climate and save the planet. The built environment is the main cause of climate change and offers the easiest opportunities for necessary change. The only truly sustainable building is the one you do not build. The next most sustainable building is the one you do not demolish. There is no point in recycling plastic bags and milk bottles if we are going to send our living buildings off to landfill.
Read MoreTamaki Campus
The built environment is the main cause of climate change. How we build determines not only how we use, or waste, resources. It also determines how we live, work, and need to travel. Even more importantly how we build determines our ability to make moral decisions. A disempowering built environment, in which everyone lives in someone else’s architecture, becomes a prison. The door is open, but the mortgage needs to be paid. An empowering built environment would allow owner‐builders to make moral choices about their own lives. The Auckland Unitary Plan is little more than a commitment to dramatically increasing climate change in the next thirty years. A consumer society consuming diminishing resources.
Read MoreSubmission on the Auckland Plan
Chapter 6 of the Draft Auckland Plan states the Auckland Council intends to develop energy and greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies and action plans for adoption in 2012.
Read MoreSubmission to Auckland Council on the draft Auckland Long Term Plan 2012-2022
Engineers for Social Responsibility Incorporated supports the general direction being taken by the Auckland Council in the Draft Long Term Plan 2012-2022.
Read MoreClimate Change and Kyoto
We are very concerned at the Government’s decision to pull out of the Kyoto protocol and instead to enter into “talks about talks.”
Read MoreSubmission to Auckland Council on “Low Carbon Auckland”
ESR strongly supports the aim of changing Auckland to a low carbon city by 2040. We are extremely concerned at the potential impacts of climate change on ecosystems and humanity and see it essential that early, ongoing, and effective action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
Read MoreSubmission to the Prime Minister on the Required Reduction of New Zealand’s CO2 Emissions
We urge the New Zealand Government to set an ambitious target for reduction of our gross greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and beyond, in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris in late 2015.
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