I feel good about how it went last week...my first week on the job. A week full of people-meeting. Interesting people who are positive and motivated and doing cool stuff. At times it was like walking into another world...the Otago University terrain not so familiar to me, yet there were familiar faces there. People I've crossed paths with before.  » Read more

The Idea

A supple, responsive, dispersed household controlled local generation network, evolving over time with addition of Renewable Generation System 'pods' (new households with renewable generation systems joining the network over time).

Simple, but how simple really?

Simplicity itself. Already we have the technology in the form of photovoltaics, micro-hydro and micro-wind, and two-way meters allowing grid integration. Why hasn't everybody already done it? Herein lies the complication. » Read more

Waitati Film Society Fundraiser

What: Screening of the unique documentary  BREATH OF PEACE

When: Saturday, 11 July 2009, 8.00 pm

Where:  Waitati Hall

with filmmaker Kathleen Gallagher  (of Earth Whisperer) » Read more

The Blueskin Youth Centre Association resolved on Monday 25 May to develop a replacement at Bland Park in Waitati for the old Youth Hall, a former church, damaged by fire several years ago. It is proposed that the replacement will be a covered, all-weather, roofed structure with a hard, smooth playing surface.

The Association will hold a meeting, open to the public, on 22 June at Waitati Hall (7pm), to advance its proposal.

Among things to be discussed are: what users want; vision, mission and objectives; working with other community partners.