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Listen to a recording of the recent event: The reality behind Brazilian Biofuels in New Zealand – a presentation by Padre Thorlby, Pastoral Land Commission, Pernambuco, Brazil (Thursday 22 April 2010). view more details… Most academics even within the ‘humanities’ devote themselves to studying and teaching topics of the utmost triviality given the situation we are in. We do not really need another translation of Ovid or treatise on Medieval poetry or a dictionary of Australian slang. Indeed right now we do not need anything going on in many entire fields of academic inquiry, such as Linguistics, English Literature, or Astronomy ( Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM) was founded in 1984, by Wellington architect George Porter. PIRM is an organisation dedicated to sustainable use of the earth’s resources. PIRM is concerned about the deterioration of global ecosystems, the rapid depletion of natural resources and degradation of the environment, examples being climate change, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, pollution of water systems and natural habitats. Our objectives are to advocate respect for natural processes; conservation of physical resources and integrity of all life forms. We contribute to the establishment of New Zealand as a strong, independent authority promoting a world conservation strategy. PIRM works for the improvement of human communities worldwide living in harmony with the natural world. PIRM organises public forums and makes submissions to the New Zealand government on environmental and social issues, and publishes Pacific Ecologist (formerly Pacific World). Pacific Ecologist is one of a family of Ecologist journals now published around the world in France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, India and Italy – as well as of course the original in the U.K. – The Ecologist. PIRM is not politically aligned and is funded by members and supporters. We are a voluntary organisation with charitable trust status. It is run by an executive committee elected from its membership each year at the AGM, normally held in October. The current committee is listed below:
Contact detailsPIRM/Pacific Ecologist Phone: +64 4 939 4553 Email: pirmeditor@paradise.net.nz
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Father Peter Healy sm (secretary) has been on the committee
for three years. His interest in ecology began in 1992 after attending the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janiero. Peter’s interests include organic gardening, environmental art, running workshops
on ecology and spirituality and tramping in New Zealand’s national parks.
Kay Weir is editor of 
Richard Keller (treasurer) moved to New Zealand in 1987 to support New Zealand’s
nuclear-free stance, leaving Reagan’s America behind. Soon after arrival he joined the exec
of PIRM and stayed for several years. In addition Richard has volunteered for many peace and
environment groups over the years, and has been an occasional letter-writer on those topics.
Richard is married with one son in high school. He has retired from the Information Technology
business and earlier in life in the USA had taught Maths at secondary school level. Retirement has
allowed Richard to expand his interests in music performance as a drummer.
Peter Gilberd is a scientist with a particular interest in physics.
He works at the 
Barbara Strathdee keeps the subscriptions lists for Pacific Ecologist up
to date. She is an artist and fiction author with an interest in ecology. Barbara recently travelled
to Trieste to receive a prize for her latest book, Cafe Wars, which is set in Italy. 
Matthew Bartlett looks after the PIRM and
