{"id":2694,"date":"2010-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/colin-beardon-advocate-of-waiheke-island-becoming-a-biosphere-reserve\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:51","slug":"colin-beardon-advocate-of-waiheke-island-becoming-a-biosphere-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/colin-beardon-advocate-of-waiheke-island-becoming-a-biosphere-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Beardon ~ Advocate of Waiheke Island becoming a Biosphere Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this could be the island of tomorrow, here in the Hauraki Gulf, in our fast coming future.<\/p>\n<p>Question? Have you the audacity to envision Waiheke Island as a Biosphere Reserve?<\/p>\n<p>When we realise what is possible and recognise that it can happen, the synergy of a dynamic community can empower the island neighborhood to be a part of something that will make us proud as a society as well as a nation.<\/p>\n<p>There are 109 countries that have Biosphere Reserves, yet clean green New Zealand does not.<\/p>\n<p>Note that many differing groups of individuals throughout the Island already support this notion.<\/p>\n<p>What is evolving out of this is more people becoming involved as a community of leaders, strong, cohesive and resilient.<\/p>\n<p>Waiheke already is a global leader with 198 volunteer organizations from a population of 8000 people. It is a &lsquo;wayshower to what a caring, creative and dynamic neighborhood can aspire to, to envision what is needed and take action.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the glue that makes Waiheke people what they are?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waihekebr.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/waihekebr.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colinbeardon.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/colinbeardon.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this idyllic island close to Auckland... with pristine sandy beaches, green rolling hills, native trees and birdlife, and a dynamic creative community that is near totally sustainable, aligned with nature and in harmony with themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}