Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, October 19th, 2022 - 19 comments
Don’t give up. Don’t retrench into reactionary blocking politics. We have more choices for action and transition, and creating regenerative and sustainable systems, than ever before.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, October 16th, 2022 - 81 comments
Van Gogh and Picasso as climate action targets. Destroying beauty is an act of self harm. On one level it’s wrong, but when we are desperate, it’s also an act of power.
Written By: - Date published: 1:52 pm, October 8th, 2022 - 256 comments
Live updates and discussion post
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, October 2nd, 2022 - 7 comments
Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, September 30th, 2022 - 57 comments
Urs Signer is standing for the Taranaki Regional Council, and is speaking a lot of sense about working with farmers, iwi and greenies for a Just Transition.
Written By: - Date published: 10:29 am, September 22nd, 2022 - 18 comments
Tāme Iti’s pitch perfect, political performance art sets activist hearts aflutter.
Written By: - Date published: 11:39 am, September 20th, 2022 - 32 comments
This good news bodes well.
Written By: - Date published: 9:59 am, September 5th, 2022 - 86 comments
Environment Southland gives the ok for intensive farming on the edge of Fiordland National Park. Everyday there’s more news of disastrous decisions being made by people in power. The local body elections in the next month give us one easy and straightforward way to change that.
Written By: - Date published: 1:26 pm, August 19th, 2022 - 66 comments
If we keep doing what we are doing (not acting on climate), then at some point there will just be too many of these events to keep up with. But we still have time to limit the damage and transition society.
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, August 3rd, 2022 - 29 comments
A new Ipsos poll has some good news.
Written By: - Date published: 1:30 pm, August 1st, 2022 - 54 comments
Labour announced earlier in the year that it would give a $350 cash transfer to all New Zealanders earning less than $70,000.
Except beneficiaries.
Written By: - Date published: 1:13 pm, July 29th, 2022 - 76 comments
The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a damning review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.
Written By: - Date published: 6:15 am, July 27th, 2022 - 27 comments
Everything we do matters. Stories of hope and renewal.
Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, July 24th, 2022 - 189 comments
The tension in the Green Party is between pragmatism and the need for urgent system change.
For the public, there’s no need to panic. Dissent is valuable and healthy in politics. It sits alongside trusting that the Greens know how to manage their internal processes even if the public at large doesn’t understand them well.
Written By: - Date published: 1:52 pm, July 16th, 2022 - 68 comments
The UK government is warning of an extreme heatwave coming next week and asking people to prepare. This is the beginning stage of climate collapse and it has the potential to get much worse. But it’s not too late to prevent the worst – choosing proactive pathways right now empowers us to make the changes needed.
Written By: - Date published: 12:22 pm, June 25th, 2022 - 103 comments
We have abortion rights by the grace of men.
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, June 7th, 2022 - 10 comments
Prince Louis and the perfect tweet.
Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, June 2nd, 2022 - 5 comments
Quick quiz on which New Zealand politicians led well on climate action in the past 15 years. Which New Zealand town is in a climate emergency today? And how our focus and voting matters if we want to avert climate disaster.
Written By: - Date published: 9:59 am, May 23rd, 2022 - 95 comments
What if instead of waiting for a new left wing party to arise, the left worked with the three progressive parties we already have in parliament?
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, May 19th, 2022 - 9 comments
Budget Day, where our centre left neoliberal government straddles the line between compassion and BAU. Given the pressures of climate, the pandemic and global instability, what are the real alternatives?
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 am, May 18th, 2022 - 48 comments
It’s the question that obsesses me, how to cultivate a deep cultural longing for a post-carbon, more just, more equal world?
– Transitions Town pioneer Rob Hopkins
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, May 17th, 2022 - 33 comments
what kind of climate action do we want?
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, May 10th, 2022 - 33 comments
The climate crisis is no longer something that’s happening to someone else, somewhere else, at some point in the future. It’s happening to us. It’s happening here. It’s happening now. – James Shaw
Written By: - Date published: 2:15 pm, May 2nd, 2022 - 60 comments
Go you beautiful people!
Written By: - Date published: 11:24 am, April 24th, 2022 - 40 comments
This is a medical scandal affecting children and teens, and the left is still largely in denial of it.
Written By: - Date published: 10:03 am, April 22nd, 2022 - 17 comments
It’s 2032, and we’re looking back at a decade of oil, climate and economic crisis, and how one city found a way through.
Written By: - Date published: 10:20 am, April 13th, 2022 - 93 comments
What would our society, communities and lives look like in New Zealand if we weren’t so reliant on fossil fuels?
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, April 11th, 2022 - 87 comments
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it.
Written By: - Date published: 10:21 am, April 9th, 2022 - 28 comments
Please read if you are commenting at The Standard.
Written By: - Date published: 12:56 pm, April 7th, 2022 - 151 comments
The Green Party has published a reasonable plan to make renting more affordable for low income New Zealanders. There’s nothing extreme-communist-scary here, it’s well within the values of the NZ electorate.
Written By: - Date published: 8:49 am, April 6th, 2022 - 55 comments
That IPCC report telling it like it is. Ball is in our court.
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