CEN Conference: Achieving Affordable Growth for all NZ Families

[Jo Wills]

If you haven’t yet heard about CEN’s conference coming up; 20th Sept, please see below for the details.

Achieving Affordable Warmth for all NZ Families;
Perspectives and Solutions from the Coalface.
Friday 20th Sept, 2013
8am – 3.30pm
Te Papa, Wellington

With the refocusing of the government’s insulation programme on households on low-incomes and with high health needs, calls for a housing Warrant of Fitness, rheumatic fever prevention initiatives, coupled with increasing household energy costs, the time is right to ensure achieving affordable warmth for all NZ homes remains priority and becomes a reality.

Attendees at the conference will be invited to participate in sessions on transforming our collective knowledge of the current state of low-income housing into pragmatic solutions.

Issues being addressed will be; fuel poverty, poor housing, health issues, community housing, minimum energy performance standards, policy implications, the cost of electricity and more.

The day will be divided into three sessions with ample time for questions as well as a workshop session designed to provoke discussions around the practical advancement of the issues. The following programme is subject to change leading up to the conference.

Click on the following link to go to the programme and for the online registeration. http://www.communityenergy.org.nz/cen-conference-programme/

If you need accommodation while in WN, take a look at this great offer for conference attendees…

CEN has secured a GREAT rate for conference attendees at West Plaza Hotel http://www.westplaza.co.nz/, 5 mins walk from Te Papa and all of the WN CBD delights.

$145 including GST and breakfast for a standard double room, with a further discount for additional nights!

Please email the hotel direct reservations@westplaza.co.nz and quote #340367

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[Phil Squire]

“Affordable Growth” Jo? That’s one way to get National Party representation at the Hui

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[Jo Wills]

What a bizarre and somewhat ironic faux pas!! Thats for pointing that out Phil, I must have been reading a national party media release on how economic growth will resolve poverty in NZ and got momentarily brainwashed…

The conference title is:

Achieving Affordable WARMTH for all NZ Families.

Apologies for the confusion.

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[Scott Willis]

A quick heads-up to all: BRCT is facilitating a ‘Cosy Homes’ workshop in Dunedin on the 6th September. We have just had confirmed first stage funding and the simple goal is to reach a city wide consensus to work collaboratively together with the vision of making every home in Dunedin warm and cosy by 2025.

Full workshop design and invites will go out next week. This is happening concurrently with the development of the Dunedin Energy Plan and if any of you feel inclined we’d value a submission on the Energy Plan even if you’re from outside Dunedin by the 26th of July. Don’t worry, I’ll post the bare bones of BRCT’s contribution to the Energy Plan here before then. I just want to draw your attention to the fact that the discussion paper on the Energy Plan already released is very supportive of community energy advice, community initiatives and looks to address fuel poverty, however the chair of the Otago Chamber of Commerce complains that it has been taken over by ‘Green Ideologies’.

 

And Jo, there must be an edit function? But how many new attendees have you had since you announced the ‘Affordable Growth’ conference?

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[Sally Blackwell]

Hi guys, I will talk to Phill the developer about getting the events calendar up and running so you can post events in there. S

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