Christchurch People

The Christchurch initiative group has a number of interesting people doing interesting things! These are some of the people you will meet if you get involved with this group...

Steve Muir

Steve is passionate about bike trailers and using them to carry loads instead of taking cars, as a way of simplifying life and reducing carbon footprints. He builds aluminium trailers and sells kitsets for $180 each, and hires them out for a month for free to give people an opportunity to try them out. He has coordinated a supermarket challenge on a couple of occasions where three bikes compete with three cars to carry two children and collect a weeks worth of groceries – the bikes are almost always faster and more enjoyable. He has run several workshops to help groups of people build their own trailers. He has written a book called PROSACC – Profound Revelations Of Sunday Afternoon Cycling Church, which is partly a good laugh, and partly serious, about connecting our experience of worshiping God to the enjoyment of God’s creation. Details are on www.cyclingchurch.org.nz.

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Sally Tripp

Sally is involved in several ecological projects on Banks Peninsula . She helps to convene the Governors Bay Landcare Group. The group has successfully raised funds to employ a contractor to eradicate Old Man's Beard from a bush valley, trains volunteers for weed control, and organises community meetings on topics of ecological interest such as birds, lizards, pest control etc. Sally has convened a group that produced a book on the local ecology: Indigenous Ecosystems of the Lyttelton Harbour Basin . She is a member of the Steering Committee for the Ecological Study of Banks Peninsula carried out by the Christchurch City Council. She also has a keen interest in ferns, photography and belongs to a number of environmental and ecological groups. Sally and her husband Dick live in Governors Bay where they have created a native garden, called Still Point. It is in an idyllic location surrounded by bush and intersected by a rocky stream.

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