๐ Nau mai, haere mai! Join us for our FREE Monthly Community Open House! ๐
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Rฤ: Saturday, 30th August
๐ Wฤ: 10:00 AM โ 12:00 PM
๐ Wฤhi: Glen Eden Community House, 13 Pisces Road, Glen Eden
๐ธ Utu: Free Entry โ Everyone welcome!
Come along for a morning packed with fun, creativity, and community spirit! Whether you're young or young at heart, there's something for everyone:
๐ Balloon Sculpting & Face Painting โ Whฤnau-friendly fun for tamariki!
๐จ DIY Ceramic Figurine Paint Kits โ Unleash your inner artist and take home your masterpiece.
๐ง Quizzes & Riddles โ Challenge your mind and enjoy the fun!
๐๏ธ Raffle Draw โ Win a 4-hour Sunday afternoon whole house hire (valued at $200!) โ perfect for your next gathering or celebration!
๐ญ Sausage Sizzle โ Tino reka!
โ Hot Coffee & Tea โ Perfect for a kลrero and a cuppa.
๐ฌ Special Screening: The Great Simplification โ A 35-minute short film exploring energy, the environment, and our future.
Bring your whฤnau, friends, and neighbours โ letโs celebrate kotahitanga (togetherness) and community vibes. We canโt wait to see you there!
Poll: ๐ค What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: thereโs no such thing as a โsafeโ job anymore ๐๐
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
Want to read more? The Press has you covered!
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53.3% Human-centred experience and communication
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14.3% Critical thinking
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29.5% Resilience and adaptability
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2.9% Other - I will share below!
Even Australians get it - so why not Kiwis???
โTen years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last weekโs record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australiaโs power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite some outages.
On Australiaโs main grid last quarter, renewables and energy storage contributed more than 50% of supplied electricity for the first time, while wholesale power prices were more than 40% lower than a year earlier.
[โฆ] shifting demand from gas and coal for power and petrol for cars is likely to deliver significantly lower energy bills for households.
Last quarter, wind generation was up almost 30%, grid solar 15% and grid-scale batteries almost tripled their output. Gas generation fell 27% to its lowest level for a quarter century, while coal fell 4.6% to its lowest quarterly level ever.
Gas has long been the most expensive way to produce power. Gas peaking plants tend to fire up only when supply struggles to meet demand and power prices soar. Less demand for gas has flowed through to lower wholesale prices.โ
Full article: www.theguardian.com...
If even Australians see the benefit of solar - then why is NZ actively boycotting solar uptake? The increased line rental for electricity was done to make solar less competitive and prevent cost per kWh to rise even more than it did - and electricity costs are expected to rise even more. Especially as National favours gas - which is the most expensive form of generating electricity. Which in turn will accelerate Climate Change, as if New Zealand didnโt have enough problems with droughts, floods, slips, etc. already.
Wills and Luxon are screwing the country to please the oil and gas industry.
Today the smart investment is in battery peaker plants in combination with solar and wind, or with any other renewable generation capacity during low demand times.
Gas is expensive and will get more so over time.
Let's not forget that Nicola Willis' dad is a big time oil and gas investor, lobbyist, and industry insider.
Maybe this should be posted in โCrime & Safetyโ?
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