Spirited Conversation: Moving into the future
Professor Simon Kingham will lead the discussion on how the urban environment and strategies for transport effect community and well-being - from the local level to global warming.
Date: Wednesday 13th November 2024.
Time: 6 to 7.30pm.
Location: Wānanga Room at Aldersgate (309 Durham Street North, Central City).
Cost: FREE. Parking and bike racks are available off Chester Street West.
Despite the best efforts of our dairy cows, transport is responsible for 40% of our greenhouse gas emissions and is among our fastest growing source.
- What would it look like if science, sustainability, safety and social justice is at the centre of transport policy? Are we headed in the right direction or going backwards?
- Why do we kill people on our roads at up to two to three times times the rate of many of the countries we like to compare ourselves to?
- Why are we in the top three countries of the world for our rates of obesity?
Contact Aldersgate for more information on this seminar on transport and wellbeing, or other upcoming talks in the Spirited Conversations series (stewards[at]aldersgate.org.nz).
This seminar is part of a monthly series of Spirited Conversations sponsored by Durham Street Methodists - as part of their commitment to bringing critical thinking, and ethical and spiritual insights to important issues of the day for the city and its diverse people.
About the speaker, Professor Simon Kingham
Simon is a human geographer, primarily focussing on the impact of the urban environment (including transport) on health and wellbeing. He is Ahorangi o te Matawhenua/Professor at the School of Earth and Environment in Faculty of Science at University of Canterbury. Since 2018 until this year he was also Chief Science Advisor to the Ministry of Transport.