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Wyndham News - May 2023 Edition

Submitted by Susan Kelly on May 2, 2023 - 09:12

This edition includes:

  • The Draft Annual Plan and Budget for 2023-24
  • Updates from Mayor Cr Susan McIntyre
  • Councillor Portfolio insightsBuilding a Better Wyndham projects
  • Love your community?  Join the Wyndham People’s Advisory Panel.
  • Our Green Living Series theme this month is Energy Smart Wyndham!
  • Wyndham Business Awards
  • How to connect with your local Community Centre
  • What's On in Wyndham
  • and more...

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PIMA BULLETIN NO 47 APRIL 2023 - SPECIAL ISSUE Honouring Chris Duke

Submitted by Shirley Walters on April 18, 2023 - 21:09

This Special Issue of the PIMA Bulletin is to recognise and honour Chris Duke, who has stepped down as founding PIMA Bulletin Editor, after seven years. Under Chris' watch 45 Issues of the PIMA Bulletin have been published. An outstanding achievement. They are all archived and easily accessible on the PIMA website www.pimanetwork.com/bulletins. They are an amazing resource for all scholars, activists, practitioners of ALE within lifelong learning perspectives and approaches.

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15-minute cities: responding to the conspiracy theorists | Policies for Places

Submitted by John Tibbitt on April 16, 2023 - 17:49

Oxford and Canterbury, 2 historic cities among several others in the UK who are developing policies to introduce a 15-minute city approach to their future development plans, are running into a barrage of criticism from conspiracy theorists who claim that such proposals amount to ‘environmental lockdown’ designed to confine people to within a certain distance from their homes, and a plot to attack personal freedoms.

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What's a City to Do? (About Global Warming) | The Urban Lens Newsletter

Submitted by Bill Bowen on April 10, 2023 - 23:45

Until recently, international and national agencies have played the most visible roles in dealing with global warming.  International and national agencies funded decades of scientific research that transformed our understanding of Earth’s climate systems. The United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now the most authoritative source of scientific consensus about global warming.  The IPCC’s most recent Synthesis Report (AR6), released just last month, begins with the following statement:

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Benchmarking 15-minute cities | Policies for Places

Submitted by John Tibbitt on April 6, 2023 - 13:43

As we saw in my previous post the 15-minute city concept has become the basis for city planning in many cities around the world. It offers a vision of urban living based on compact and complete neighborhoods which are vibrant, convenient, connected and equitable.