Constitution:
Our constitution can be read here
Profiles of our members:
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Bill McEwan:
In May 2015 I got so concerned about the lack of awareness of climate disruption in Marlborough that I sat in the band rotunda, in central Blenheim for a week and fasted. I was joined by my 32 year old son Robbie and had the active support of my partner Lois Mead-McEwan. It was a karanga (call) to the people of my province to research and action. Climate Karanga Marlborough sprang from that action. I was born in Picton in 1944 and have degrees in agricultural science and theology. Reading Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” 20 years ago alerted me to the grave crisis we are facing, necessary solutions, humanity’s focus on the short term and the difficulty of global cooperation. Climate Karanga Marlborough provides me with the intellectual and ethical company necessary to continue to speak to our fellow citizens. I like to sail, camp, tramp, garden and read. |
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Lois Mead-McEwan
I was reared near Lake Ellesmere/ Te Waihora on the Canterbury Plains and had an idyllic childhood roaming the natural environment. After reading Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature”, I was alarmed as I came to understand human activity is changing the natural rhythms and processes of the planet. With a professional background in mental health I recognise these changes will harm the health and wellbeing of humankind. I am committed to reversing the impact of our species on the natural world so future generations can enjoy what we have enjoyed. Alongside climate change activism I am interested in community, gardening, turning the compost, spending quality time with my husband and daughter, singing, belly-laughing, reading, walking, riding my e-bike and having picnics. |
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Lesley and Budyong Hill
We moved to Marlborough in 2011 and live in Renwick. Budyong was born in Fiji and grew up in West Australia, while Lesley grew up in Wellington. We met on the West Coast in 1975 and lived an alternative lifestyle with our three sons for the next 22 years. This included 12 years living in the intentional pacifist community of Riverside near Motueka. Our deep interest in the environment and social justice issues that blossomed during those times continues to this day. In more recent years we have come to see more clearly the existential threat facing us all. We believe the human enterprise is using resources and generating wastes in excess of the regenerative and assimilative capacities of the ecosphere. This places us in a state of overshoot and declining planetary biocapacity. Our involvement in CKM is one way we can put our energy into raising awareness of the danger facing life on earth. |
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Sue and Mark Altoft
We are a recently retired couple and have been living in Waikawa for 20 years. We have a great concern for the future of our planet and the consequent major changes on the lives of our children and grandchildren. We accept that because of luck, denial and ignorance, we have lived in a time when we have not cared responsibly for our environment. We have now made a commitment to alter our day-to-day choices and have changed our priorities and actions to help make a positive difference to our planet. |
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Marion Harvey.
Born in Nelson in 1947, I trained as a teacher and taught in secondary schools in New Zealand, and in Kyoto, Japan, in 1990. For the last 15 years before I retired in 2008, I taught classes of refugee and new migrant students at Hagley Community College in Christchurch. I have been living in Marlborough Sounds with my husband since 2009. I have always loved the outdoors, am a keen gardener, walker, would-be tramper, camper, bird and tree enthusiast. Mother of two daughters and grandmother of five, I think there are huge concerns about the quality of life our children and future generations will have. I believe it is imperative that we face up to the threat climate change poses, and do everything we can to mitigate its impacts. |
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Penny Wardle…is – among other things – a Marlborough-based journalist and communications consultant who seeks to reach people with the message that it’s a beautiful and diverse world. Let’s work together to keep it that way.
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Penny Wardle
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James Wilson.
An empathy with the environment led my wife, Barbie, and I to pioneer Sabbatical Fallowing on our organic farm. I later became disenchanted with organic farming, as the reality dawned that livestock farming is a grossly inorganic activity. In the interests of the environment’s and our own health we adopted a vegan lifestyle eleven years ago which, has dramatically reduced our global foot print. I am alarmed at the danger our seven grandchildren face with the increasing global warming being so willfully ignored by so many. It is heartening to belong to Climate Karanga Marlborough. |
Tom Powell
Following a 35 year career as a geothermal geoscientist, a career that brought him to New Zealand from California in 2004, Tom now devotes his energy to climate awareness and activism, writing articles for the Marlborough Express and submissions to government on climate issues. Tom is currently secretary and co-chair of Climate Karanga Marlborough.