link to harvest festival pics

Harvest festival pics

VTS 01 1 Manawatu Kiwi Ranger Promo

Science Communicator's Conference next year

SCANZ

Follow this link to find out about the call for abstracts.

I'm on the group who are organising this conference for March 2014 in Palmerston North.

Who will stand for Council?

Bob Marley said it "Get up Stand Up"

 Who will do it for us?

 Will it be you?

 For the next 2 weeks the door is open for people to nominated to get onto local government in Palmerston North, to be on the City Council & the Regional Council and also the District Health Board...and this applies to all of New Zealand.

 If I wanted to talk to someone in the council, I dont really know who I'd go to. I dont know if they'd listen, if they'd get me or if be able to articulate my views when they go to their meetings and make decisions I have to (mostly) live by.

 So I've decided I'm going to try and talk a few friends into standing for council....and I guess I havent got long.
considering standing for council?

 If you're keen, I'd be keen to know...lol.  Here's a link to the what-you'll-need-to-know report, hopefully this link works or else just go to the Palmerston North City Council website...currently its on the home page.
pre-election report


This is how many votes people would need.  However its city wide now, not voting by wards.
results from last elections 2010

Hey hey ho ho GCSB has gots to go!

The Palmy Panthers invited many of us on Facebook.  Goodness us and our associates are probably being e-trawled  (hi John Key!) as I blog!


Anyway if you wanted to be on the pulse, in your community, but didn’t make it down.  I took a few pics, they'll help you feel included.  Next time- get your own mask and get yourself down there...we can't just let the Government trump themselves when they break their own laws!



 



There were all sorts of people out.  This is a rights issue, a privacy issue. This is also a Maori issue cos, well, we all know the cops thought it’d be ok to treat a whole community like terrorists in Tuhoe. #not_the_one


The signs and the outfits were excellent.  A good mate wore a Pink Panther outfit- a onesie.  I'll try find the vine video and chuck it up, its hilarious and only about 4 seconds






The open mic was classic.  Lots of people got up with something to say which was remarkable to me, informing and at times funny.



 Despite TV3's lies, it was peaceful.  A complaint has been made regarding their erroneous broadcast, and I think they have to recant.

The irony was not lost on me,  how at a time I'm out marching around the square re-anti GCSB legislation- I'm trying my best to understand the whole social media network concept.  I guess thats the very reason we demand online privacy.

The setting up and linking in of this blog EcoMaori to a work Facebook page which is different to my personal Facebook, to an YouTube login I had from a contract I took a few years back, also utilizing my own Instagram page for photos.

I'll also create a more work related Instagram and probably a twitter and Pintrest eventually.  That doesn't even include guest bloggers and linkages to other work departments. Jingers just keeping my head around the logins is a bloody nightmare!  I’ll put up another couple of photos after I post…you understand…they’re not on this computer, I took them on my phone!

Manawatu Gorge filming

Ok, so we're making a video to "sell" the idea of doing the Manawatu Gorge walks. 

Great idea,
get out there in the environmental for all sorts of reasons, environmental, educational, social, exercise wise, for peace and quiet...and all the reasons we already know.

I'd better go back to why and how we got there; Te Manawa is collaborating with DOC (dept of Conservation) and Horizons (regional Council) to launch Conservation Week in town in Palmerston North.  There's going to be a kids photo competition (around a conservation theme) which is going out to the schools soon, and we're also launching the Kiwi Ranger programme, which is an activity book to get kids ( and families) to enjoy the environment. 

So yeah, DOC have videos on their website of lots of different walks, trails, tramps, campsites etc...and we're doing one for the Manawatu Gorge- I sometimes wonder how I get myself roped into these things! lol.

http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/manawatu-whanganui/manawatu/manawatu-gorge-tawa-loop-walk/
Look here for some of the stuff they've already done.

We had a meeting today to suss out the plan...and omg its getting bigger and bigger.

So we've got the target audience (kids and families) cos they are the ones who will do the Kiwi ranger programme.  Then we've got to get the kids.  hmmm.

Then there's the weather- did I mention this is mid winter!  flip