URS, which is involved in engineering and roading projects, is holding an #x2018;Alternative Transport use transport that is better for the environment. All staff are being encouraged to cycle, walk, bus, train, kayak, interests of getting fit, saving money and helping the ways of getting to work will win prizes. In 2005 a staff rollerblades.
Prizes will be given to staff who walk or bike the furthest, who significantly change their commuting habits and who make a difference by car pooling. Travel Survey. This helps staff work out their most efficient way of getting to work, lets them know of people reductions on CO2 emissions.
In 2006 work related travel and Alternative Transport Week. #x2018; #x2018;I #x2019;m rollerblading to and from work #x2013; from Parnell, #x201D; he says. #x201C;It #x2019;s faster, cheaper and better for me than the Link bus.
#x201D; instead of using her car. #x201C;The only non-sustainable get involved in Alternative Transport Week. URS will provide Auckland, Wellington, and Tauranga.
Team at URS, a group set up to encourage and monitor issues that deal with envionmental, social, cultural and econmonic initatives, sees Alternative Transport Week as a great way Scoop's Kevin List joins KiwiFM's Wammo to deliver his weekly News Roundup… Items discussed: Taito Phillip Field, Helen Clark's state of the nation speech; John Key's response; and Hon Robson Becomes Contemptuous Robson. Scoop's Selwyn Manning and KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman discuss how the United States has intensified its military presence in the Persian Gulf amidst expectation of regional conflict with Iran. Will the USA strike first against the Atomic Ayatollahs?
Goldenhorse singer Kirsten Morrell today showed where her heart was on Valentine's Day by puckering up and adding her lips to Oxfam's Chocolate Kiss petition outside Nestlé's Auckland headquarters. Calling on Nestlé to help kiss poverty goodbye, Oxfam presented the chocolate giant with an unconventional Valentine's gift - over 7,000 petition cards from New Zealanders calling on the chocolate industry to sweeten its cocoa sourcing practices and switch to fair trade. See.
.. Former Privileges Committee Chairperson Matt Robson, has been found guilty by the people he once drank tea and ate biscuits with of heaping contempt on the head of the leader of United Future Party Peter Dunne.
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- Wellington Balkan music band Niko Ne Zna took advantage of the summery weather to entertain lunchtime crowds at Midland Park, giving a variety of tunes a bouncy Eastern-European jazz treatment. The music, unlike the actual Balkans, was harmonious. See.
.. It’s my privilege to present this annual statement to Parliament setting out the government’s priorities for the year ahead.
Last year’s statement set out an ambitious programme, and a great deal has been achieved. That has been due in no small part to the constructive working relationships Labour and the Progressive Party have with other parties in the House..
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. The Labour Government is perhaps fortunate that maverick ex-MP John Tamihere lost his seat in the last election. If Mr Tamihere was still an MP there potentially would have been an outcry from the passionate former West Auckland MP at the Government's latest move – reducing the mana of the ministerial car fleet.
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Two years after being sidelined with a torn tendon in his right shoulder, State Northern Knights opening bowler Daryl Tuffey has been included in the Blackcaps squad of 15 to compete in the World Cup in the West Indies in March and April. The right-arm out-swing bowler has also been included in the 13-man squad for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series against Australia which starts in Wellington on Friday. See.
.. Conservation Minister Chris Carter today flatly rejected threats from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society following a violent confrontation between protest ships and a Japanese Whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean.
"The Japanese whaling ship, the Kaiko Maru, issued a distress call this evening following a confrontation with two Sea Shepherd ships. See..
. After being postponed due to a cold southerly blast on Saturday, the Vodafone X Air was given a scorcher on Sunday to fill the waterfront as approximately 15,000 excited spectators came down for an extreme time. - Prime Minister Helen Clark welcomed with thinly-veiled enthusiasm today’s announcement of the formation of the Hillary Institute and of a prestigious international prize for outstanding leadership.
.. It will be awarded to a person who displays great leadership in their chosen field.
The Prime Minister also suggested that "perhaps an interest in mountaineering might be taken into account". See..
. - “The Good Shepherd is a fictionalized version of history which is accurate in almost every incident. But because the filmmakers are liberated from trying to be faithful to the tiny details, they’ve come a lot closer in many ways to capturing some essential truths about this extraordinary period of intelligence, counterintelligence, betrayal and espionage during the Cold War …" See.
.. - SPECIAL FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning reports that Akilisi Pohiva, controversial leader of Tonga's pro-democracy movement and No.
1 People’s Representative to Parliament, has been arrested on charges relating to "Black Thursday" . Pohiva is the highest profile leader arrested so far in a sweep by Tongan authorities determined to display a state of control in the deeply divided Pacific Island state. But is this merely a strategy to fight off reformists who demand democracy?
INCLUDES previously unreleased video. Scoop Image Tonga's King George V November 2006. See.
.. Scoop's Selwyn Manning and 95bFM's Simon Pound give National leader John Key a caning over his caring for the 'underclass' pontificating.
Was this mere theatre on Key's part or just a case of a rookie leader toeing the water? Scoop's Kevin List's weekly Radio Active news roundup: Immigration and asylum. Why is it a Catholic is in prison awaiting deportation to Iran when a gay Iranian is granted asylum in NZ?
- The PM discusses John Key's accusations of Labour "standover tactics and bullying" being behind Wesley School's refusal of National's attempted charity, Labour's record on poverty, negotiating with Fiji's military government on trade, the entry charge for and arrangements for the control of the Waitangi Treaty Grounds and other issues. Scoop's Selwyn Manning joins Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey to deliver his weekly New Zealand news roundup. Items discussed today include: A senior constable in the NZ Police is facing rape charges.
Also, Waitangi Day 2007, what it means for contemporary New Zealand. NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters has said too many New Zealanders are anti-American. Is he correct?
Also, the climate change debate heats up; and what's up with Waitangi Day 2007?
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