Category Archives: Waipara

01/07/2010 Posted in Business and the Environment, Cleantech, New Zealand, Waipara 6 Comments

Did I Mention That I Hate NIMBYs?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about the proposal of a local company to build a windfarm in the hills near where I live. An article in The Press newspaper this morning made my blood boil and made me happy that I penned an opinion piece for a soon-to-be-published edition of a newspaper.

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01/07/2008 Posted in Business, Business and the Environment, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, Society, Waipara 4 Comments

It’s the environment dummy…

By Ben Kepes

For those of you (there must be one or two) unaware of the perfect storm brewing, there’s a list of things happening all at once; Unprecedented oil price rises The possible approach of peak oil Biofuel production increasing in relation to #2 causing wide spread food shortages Climate change Decreased

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15/05/2008 Posted in Economic Development, New Zealand, Waipara Leave a comment

North Canterbury Business Awards…

By Ben Kepes

One of the roles I fill is on the board of a Economic Development Agency, Enterprise North Canterbury. ENC has just launched the North Canterbury Business Awards, a new annual award to showcase the successful businesses that are to be found in North Canterbury. I’ve been asked to judge the

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28/10/2007 Posted in Business and the Environment, Society, Uncategorized, Waipara Leave a comment

Recreational Sunday…

By Ben Kepes

The boys and I just got back from a lovely jaunt up Mt Cass. Mt Cass overlooks the stunningly beautiful Waipara Valley, not to mention our house – pic below is us on the top pointing to the family digs; Mt Cass is also the site of the proposed Mt

24/10/2007 Posted in Business, Waipara Leave a comment

Waipara Valley Blog

By Ben Kepes

For those locals, or those interested in Waipara valley, its people, places, wines and issues visit this new blog set up by friend and neighbour Julian. Cheers

29/09/2007 Posted in Waipara Leave a comment

A day for play and good things…..

By Ben Kepes

We’re in the middle of baking muffins after which we’re all going for  nice family walk up Mt Grey. Tonight it’s a “sort of” celebratory dinner at the ‘norwester – celebratng what? Life in general, Life 2.0 in particular….

24/08/2007 Posted in Branding, Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Strategy, Waipara 1 Comment

Are wool exports real bad or is wine really good?????

By Ben Kepes

Interesting article this morning stating that for the first time ever, it looks likely that wine export earnings will outstrip wool export earnings this year. Leaving aside the earnings gained from adding value to wool (taking a raw material,  and creating a top end fashion garment from it -  a

16/08/2007 Posted in Business and the Environment, Economic Development, Governance, New Zealand, Society, Strategy, Waipara Leave a comment

Old problems, New solutions….

By Ben Kepes

This afternoon I took part in a meeting hosted by Landcare Research. Landcare has recently won funding from FRST for the next few years to investigate qualitative and quantitative methods in water resource governance. Down here in Canterbury especially (but elsewhere in NZ and internationally also) water management is an

14/08/2007 Posted in Business and the Environment, Efficiency, New Zealand, Society, Waipara 1 Comment

Turbines are a-’comin

By Ben Kepes

I live in Waipara, North Canterbury, a bustling hive of Viticulture, Tourism, Farming and infrastructure projects. I’m pretty involved with what goes on up there – I’m a trustee of the North Canterbury Economic Development Agency, Chair of the Waipara District Residents Association, a trustee of the Kate Valley Landfill

12/07/2007 Posted in Business, Business and the Environment, Design, Economic Development, Governance, New Zealand, Society, Strategy, Waipara Leave a comment

Waipara growth and development….

By Ben Kepes

I took part this morning in a strategy session for the Waipara Valley. The session pulled together tourism, viticultural, local government and local resident interests. Broadly speaking we are trying to create a body with an all-encompassing view of development in the valley – that thinks and acts at a

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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