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		<title>Calling All Angels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone must have called in the angels on Saturday morning.  Our massive earthquake caused monumental amounts of damage to Christchurch and surrounding Canterbury, but not one life was lost. The Haiti earthquake, exactly the same force at 7.1 on the Richter scale, killed 300,000 people.  Thank goodness for our First World building standards and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=357&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heathcote 150 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent celebrations of 150 years of settlement in Heathcote were well-attended and awesomely well organised. I got along to the church service at St Mary’s Anglican Church.  The church was itself celebrating 150 years. Not only were the locals turned out in nineteenth century clothing, the church laid it on too.  The bishop and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=351&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspirational Linwood Playcentre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a buzz to catch up with the folk of the Linwood Playcentre recently.&#160; They had an open day to attract interested folk and raise funds. Playcentres are a great example of local neighbourhoods getting together to provide a benefit for their community.&#160; Children learn and play in a family-centred environment.&#160; Parents have the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=332&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving People a Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[participatory budgeting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been astonished at the number of people who, in reaction to our People’s Forum proposal, have expressed the view that city decision-making should be removed as far from the people as possible. People&#8217;s Forums are a new approach to city annual planning, giving residents more of a say.  They are based on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=303&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Drinks &#8211; 26 August</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Drinks presents… Solid Energy! Yes folks, you read right, we have Solid Energy presenting at this Thursday&#8217;s Green Drinks. Andy Matheson, General Manager, Renewable Energy at Solid Energy will talk about the company&#8217;s renewable energy initiatives, particularly biofuels. 5:30pm Thursday 26 August, in the No. 8 Dining Room at The Twisted Hop in Poplar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=301&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light Rail for Christchurch? Dream on.</title>
		<link>http://blog.petertaylor.co.nz/2010/08/20/light-rail-for-christchurch-dream-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owen McShane, a resource management consultant who writes for the National Business Review is best known as a friend of the free market Right and rampant property developers.  But on occasion his conclusions have resonance that greenies and public transport advocates should take note of. Click here to read his views on the visit of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=300&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People&#8217;s Forums</title>
		<link>http://blog.petertaylor.co.nz/2010/08/18/peoples-forums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new approach to city annual planning will be trialled in Christchurch over the coming month. Peter Taylor, a city council candidate standing in the Hagley-Ferrymead ward for The People&#8217;s Choice, is introducing the concept of participatory budgeting to the city. In a series of public meetings leading up to the local body elections, Peter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=299&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skinny skis &amp; leather boots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skiing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever found skiing hard?&#160; Oh no you haven’t. For those who have never telemarked, this video might seem a little anti-climactic.&#160; We skiers have all seen videos of cool dudes shredding slopes ad infinitum.&#160; The appeal here is in the restrictions that these particular “cool dudes” faced when this video was filmed. The guys at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=293&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sewage spill into Heathcote</title>
		<link>http://blog.petertaylor.co.nz/2010/08/10/sewage-spill-into-heathcote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see on page A3 of The Press today there is a report of an overflow of wastewater into the Heathcote.  392 cubic metres of &#8220;treated wastewater&#8221; overflowed from the Beckford St pumping station. This sort of pollution is routine after heavy rain.  In a December 2008 survey conducted by URS, 76% of Christchurch residents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=282&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutional right to oblivion</title>
		<link>http://blog.petertaylor.co.nz/2010/07/22/%e2%80%9cconstitutional-right-to-oblivion-%e2%80%9d-the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Constitutional right to oblivion.” The call to allow citizens to maintain a greater degree of anonymity. http://nyti.ms/bNQC7P<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.petertaylor.co.nz&amp;blog=5044058&amp;post=237&amp;subd=petertaylor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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