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Matt

About Me

I have recently been elected to the Community Board for Shirley Papanui ward, which I'm very stoked about. There's a lot to get my head around, but I'm really looking forward to making a difference. My main interests are around the environment and organics, community gardening, youth issues, and poverty and access issues. Please get in touch with me if you've got any ideas or needs that you'd like some help with._______________________________________________Intervie w with me in The Press: click here for the link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4143692a19844.html ________________________________________________I have a Ph.D. in Christchurch's social and environmental history, I work as a supermarket manager and I write for the Press. I have been active in local and national community organisations since the late 1990s and remain passionately involved in efforts to transform Christchurch into sustainable Garden City.You can access my thesis online via the Canterbury University website www.canterbury.ac.nz, through their library catalogue. In the Public Library you can look up my book 'Cuttings from Paradise' - a selection of my Press columns - and my booklet on establishing a community garden.Thanks, Matt Morris

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Siouxsie Sioux, David Bowie and Shelley.

My Blog

Greenspace in the City

As I talk to more and more people in our part of Christchurch, the biggest concern I hear after worries about CPW and water security generally is frustration about the way intensification of housing i...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:09:00 GMT

Press Column: The Garden City

Press Column No.4: The Garden City Matt Morris   Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theories of systematic colonisation of the 1830s were the forerunner of the notion of urban planning. The systematic col...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:43:00 GMT

Answers on ’utility cycling’

Recently I was asked to give my views on 'utility cycling'. Here are my views. Let me know your thoughts. Would you actively pursue policies that would enable utility cycling to develop along the line...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:57:00 GMT

My Press Column

Some of you may have noticed the large interview with me in the Press this weekend...It introduced the first of my columns on 'Greenspaces' which will come out over the next few weeks. Keep looking in...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:59:00 GMT

Youth

Dear Sir,Matthew Fergusson's suggestion (21 June) that he, along with other so-called 'boy-racers', politicians and police, meet to 'come up with a solution' to boy-racing is forward-thinking and sens...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:36:00 GMT

Organic Garden City Trust

On Sunday a Matariki lunch was held in honour of the Organic Garden City Trust. The occasion: its tenth birthday. Those who know anything about the Trust know that for a few years, for varying reasons...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:43:00 GMT

Urban Sprawl

There seems to be a general sentiment in the air against developers. Murray Grimwood wrote in The Press (21 June) about NIMBYs and developers, and said the latter needed to be instructed on carbon neu...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:07:00 GMT

Return to Vision

J. O. Clarkson (June 8) says the CPW scheme is a result of Christchurch's sprawling onto prime farmlands. This perspective is disingenuous; the scheme is not designed to rescue vegetable producers - i...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:55:00 GMT