Over the last four months, the Waitakere community of Piha has faced two flash floods which has caused property damage and power outages. This has caused Piha residents to develop an emergency plan to deal with natural emergencies in the steep isolated coastal community. Producer Damian Rowe spoke to civil defense leader Steve Tollestrup regarding the importance of community emergency plans
Professor Fowlie of NORML NZ continues his lecture series on the controversial hallucinogenic, cannabis. The subject of this week's lecture is on the subject of legislative reformation and the nature of governmental control over the drug.
From the Unviersity of Auckland's School of Environment & the George Mason Centre for the Natural Environment, Dr. Brendon Blue joins us to discuss the way people interact and the relationship we share with our environments. Specifically looking at Predator Free 2050, and how real the community buy-in is.
Samantha Chan is part of the Augmented Human Lab Group, at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland, and is part of the research into ‘enabling’ human-computer interfaces as natural extensions of our body, mind and behaviour. Samantha chats to Rach about what this is exactly, and how it works.
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