We Know the Issues – But Who’s Dealing With Them?
Professor Ian Spellerberg
World Environment Day has come and gone. Once again the familiar acts of commemoration, many of them almost ritual, have been completed. The trees have been planted, and the spades are cleaned. The posters on countless classroom walls will yellow, but the environmental messages of concern and hope will remain for a time. READ MORE

Christchurch International Airport – A Strategic Asset in Jeopardy?
Christopher Kissling
The Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy (GCUDS) which all the Councils and Transit New Zealand have accepted, calls for consolidated urban development and limits on urban growth. Unfettered subdivision, residential, business and commercial developments would compromise the airport. READ MORE

Living beyond our means
Professor Ian Spellerberg
The latest proposal to harness the Waitaki River is a water grab
Hamish Rennie
The CPW Irrigation Scheme: What do we do from here?
Dr Ali Memon
What Future is there in Producing Commodities for Developing Economies?
Professor Caroline Saunders
Climate Change and NZ’s National Interest - Embedding policy into a sustainable development agenda
Dr Ton Bührs
Tourism Under Pressure On Many Fronts
David Simmons
Equity and Honesty in Learning
Professor Roger Field
Sink or Swim in the wine industry

Dr Valerie Saxton
Why is it bad to feed the animals?
Geoffrey Savage
Getting our produce from the New Zealand paddock to the European plate
Dr Rupert Tipples
Sustainability debate needs education sector on board
Ian Spellerberg
Charging down the track
Christopher Kissling
Bus system plan should be just part of a bigger picture
Chris Kissling
Do we have enough water in Central Canterbury?
Dr Vince Bidwell
EU butter bans are more than technical
Keith Woodford
Greening Waipara: building biodiversity back into the wine experience
Steve Wratten / Dr Colin Meurk
Mountain ethics and Everest
Keith Woodford
Lyttelton Port deal is a sign of wider development issues
Clive Smallman
The Politics of Tenure Review
Dr. Ann Brower
Co-operation in transport emerging paradigm or pipe dream?
Christopher Kissling
Land reform our loss
Ann Brower
Complacency adding to the risk for threatened bird species
Kerry-Jayne Wilson
Making the Most of Digital Devices in an Emergency
Chris Kissling and John Tiffin
What is Happening to our Food?
Professor Geoffrey Savage
Academic Life Provides a Reality Check
Peter Skelton
Driving and Cell Phones: Perhaps we should be licensed to do both
Professor Jake Rose
Learning to Live with “Food Miles”
Professor Geoffrey Savage
All new housing should be warmer, but some is not
Don Mackenzie
Deer Management: Is it a pest, a resource or both?
Ken Hughey
Functional foods – a curious trend
Dr Geoffrey Savage
Bus rapid transit can complement light rail
Dr Jean-Paul Thull
Turning a blind eye to vehicle pollution
Dr Ravi Gooneratne
Television and sustainability
Ian Spellerberg
Consumers find an alternative to “industrialised” food industry
Dr Geoffrey Savage
Rail – A neglected asset for Christchurch
Christopher Kissling
Voluntary compliance is not enough
Ian Spellerberg
Wine Technology
Charley Lamb
Chemicals in my food? No way?!!
Dr Geoffrey Savage
Recognising and managing landscape values
Simon Swaffield and Carys Swanwick
Protecting pasture from predators
19 January 2009