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Thank you Charlie.
Written By: - Date published: 10:56 pm, April 24th, 2017 - 60 comments
I took myself along to Dunedin’s March for Science last Saturday. There was a high point.
Green power
Written By: - Date published: 12:34 pm, April 20th, 2017 - 78 comments
Lots to like in The Greens’ new power policy.
Greenpeace got themselves a bigger boat…
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, April 2nd, 2017 - 59 comments
“Yours is an honourable mission with the power to bring alive the conscience of the world”
Oil prospecting on the shores of Lake Te Anau?
Written By: - Date published: 3:10 pm, March 22nd, 2017 - 22 comments
The Nats are buying another fight with NZ’s nature lovers. Last time they tried something like this 50,000 marched in Auckland and they were forced to back down.
Climate Change and Us
Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, March 21st, 2017 - 4 comments
3 major environmental reports today – the OECD says our economy is beyond environmental limits; a cross party group of MPs sponsor research into the way to net zero emissions; and the World Meteorological Organisation has a stark look at continued climate change.
Kia Kaha Canterbury
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, February 16th, 2017 - 35 comments
It seems almost inevitable that the recent fires in Canterbury and the Hawkes Bay are the result of climate change and the harbingers of things to come.
Stop. Driving. Climate. Change.
Written By: - Date published: 1:29 pm, January 25th, 2017 - 79 comments
What can we do today that will make a difference?
100 Coal Fired Projects Scrapped.
Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, January 18th, 2017 - 16 comments
…including some already in the construction phase.
Powerdown
Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, January 17th, 2017 - 115 comments
Climate change, Peak Oil, resource depletion. Some of our options are better than others.
Keep it in the ground
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, December 22nd, 2016 - 51 comments
In the last days of the Obama presidency the current President is taking steps to protect the Arctic from oil drilling.
As politicians go….
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, November 18th, 2016 - 21 comments
Following voters in the USA adding yet another to a growing list of defeats for the radical centre….
Te Ikaroa – Seismic Testing Presents Significant Risk To East Coast
Written By: - Date published: 9:46 pm, November 15th, 2016 - 64 comments
“Seismic blasting, every 10 seconds, 24hrs a day from now until next May” Time to step up again and protect our environment.
Oh noes! The world’s not going to saved now!
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
Bollocks. It was never going to be.
Standing Rock update
Written By: - Date published: 3:27 pm, November 3rd, 2016 - 21 comments
The Standing Rock water protection movement continues in the face of increasing state violence.
Peak Oil Demand
Written By: - Date published: 7:13 am, October 20th, 2016 - 95 comments
A decade ago peak oil, or the capping of supply was thought to be an imminent problem. Now it is looking more likely that demand will peak, and soon.
Protecting the seabed and foreshore
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, October 19th, 2016 - 7 comments
With the sudden departure of deep sea drilling company Statoil from Northland here’s a timely look the role of community action in that, the state of play in NZ and what is next.
Statoil leaves Northland, Greenpeace announce summer of Climate Action
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 14 comments
Congratulations and thanks to the people of Northland!
International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, October 9th, 2016 - 4 comments
What we know is coming largely from outside the mainstream. Which is how it should be.
Why we need to stand with Standing Rock
Written By: - Date published: 2:33 pm, October 6th, 2016 - 25 comments
For seven months the next movement of social and environmental justice and resistance has been growing. We should be paying attention.
Big Oil in plain packaging
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, September 10th, 2016 - 95 comments
Big Tobacco was hit this week in New Zealand after Parliament passed laws requiring smokes to be sold in plain packaging. The science about the health threats posed by smoking is settled, as is the science over climate change. When can we expect laws being passed against the oil companies?
Abrupt climate change: CO2 equivalent now at 485 ppm
Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, August 26th, 2016 - 76 comments
We are now at 485 ppm CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas concentrations, up from 250 ppm in the 1700s. And climbing fast.
Charles Hugh Smith – The Ultimate Long Game: Autarky and Resilience
Written By: - Date published: 6:17 pm, August 18th, 2016 - 28 comments
Today, electronic numbers in electronic bank accounts are the most important things to the people who lead NZ. That’s going to have to seriously change. The country’s capacity and resources in terms of food, energy, water and cultural/social resiliency is what actually counts.
July 2016 was the hottest single month recorded since 1880
Written By: - Date published: 6:32 pm, August 16th, 2016 - 104 comments
July 2016 was the hottest month ever in recorded modernity.
Financial capital is crazy OP. Time to strip it back to basics.
Written By: - Date published: 12:08 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 72 comments
Financial capital is way over powered in our current political economic system. Every aspect of our lives has been financialised and securitised, from our homes to our educations. From our drinking water to our power supply.
Free Petrol Pt IV
Written By: - Date published: 6:25 am, August 5th, 2016 - 92 comments
Part IV of IV
Free Petrol Pt III
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, August 4th, 2016 - 25 comments
Part III of IV – a focus on road transport.
The New Silk Road
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 am, August 4th, 2016 - 45 comments
The New Silk Road is a massive economic transport system being built at rapid speed with Chinese money, Chinese politicking, Chinese engineering, and yes, Chinese steel.
Free Petrol Pt II
Written By: - Date published: 6:38 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 11 comments
Part II of IV. How to achieve zero carbon from the shipping and aviation sectors by the 2030s.
Free Petrol Pt I
Written By: - Date published: 1:42 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 3 comments
Part I of a IV part series of posts on what we can do to hold global warming below 2 degrees C.
Climate change pedal to the metal
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 am, July 31st, 2016 - 116 comments
Avoiding 2 deg C warming is a ship that’s sailed. Global warming is now happening at about 4.3x the previous long-run rate. And it might go up to 18x the previous rate over the next few years. That’s what the pundits call “abrupt climate change.”
Chris de Freitas now is the time to be afraid
Written By: - Date published: 7:53 am, July 30th, 2016 - 161 comments
As the temperatures increase and the sea rises Chris de Freitas still claims that anthropogenic climate change is not a happening thing. And shows his inability to analyze by misinterpreting a Jarrod Gilbert article which describes climate change deniers as charlatans.
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- Australia has an ongoing GP shortage. Why can’t we just train more GPs?
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- Could NZ’s two kākā subspecies actually be remnants of a more diverse species? Here’s why we n...
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- More than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims died this year when humidity and heat pushed past survivable limits. I...
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- How a Cold War satellite and Robert Menzies changed the way Australian schools are funded
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- Where does Santa live? It’s a trickier question to answer than you may think
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- Winston Peters spends much of year’s last speech criticising Te Pāti Māori, Waititi breaks i...
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- Swimming loses public funding but elite duo protected
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A former National MP and incumbent Hamilton City Councillor has been hired by the University of Waikato to advocate for its proposed third medical school. ...4 days ago
- Transmission Gully: New plan to tackle long-standing fight
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- Opposition parties move towards ‘formalising’ collaboration
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- Daily crossword, Thursday 19 December
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- Huzzah! The 2024 ReadingRoom awards
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- Newsroom daily quiz, Thursday 19 December
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By Harry Pearl of BenarNews Vanuatu is taking stock of damage from a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 14 people and collapsed buildings in the capital Port Vila, as the first trickle of international assistance began arriving in the disaster-prone Pacific nation. The quake rattled the ...4 days ago
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- Mediawatch: The good, bad and weird media in 2024
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- Vanuatu quake: Services still down nearly 24 hours after Port Vila hit
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist World Vision’s Vanuatu country director says electricity and water are still affected in the capital Port Vila and strategic bridges connecting the city are damaged, nearly 24 hours after a 7.3 earthquake just before 1pm on Tuesday afternoon. The city has had multiple aftershocks ...4 days ago
- Vanuatu quake: State of emergency declared, Fiji’s Rabuka offers help
By Monika Singh of Wansolwara Vanuatu is now in a state of emergency with at least 14 confirmed deaths following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the capital Port Vila yesterday, followed bya 6.1 quake and other after shocks today. According to the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) in Vanuatu, ...5 days ago
- Christmas can be challenging for people with hearing loss. Here are 7 ways you can help
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Ekberg, Senior Lecturer, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University Paulina Rojas/Shutterstock For many people, Christmas can be the most social time of the year. The holiday period is often filled with parties, lunches, dinners and celebrations of all ...5 days ago
- If Treasury forecasts are right, it could be a decade before Australia is ‘back in black’
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- Lake Alice Payments Discriminatory
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- Attorney-general ‘appalled’ after Judge and former doctor verbally abuse Winston Peters ...
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- Why Vanuatu should brace for even more aftershocks after this week’s deadly quakes: a seismologist...
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- Cabinet sets aside $22.6m for survivors tortured at Lake Alice
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University The Conversation; Mohammed Badra (EPA), Maxim Shemetov (Reuters Pool/EPA), Stoyan Nenov (Reuters Pool/AP) The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a new front for ...5 days ago
- Flying this holiday season? Here’s why air travel makes us so cranky – and what to do about it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Risk & Resilience, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock The holidays are coming, airports are packed and emotions are running high. You’ve probably seen it or even been part of it: that tense moment when a passenger snaps ...5 days ago
- Minister Needs To Listen To The Evidence On Engineered Stone Ban
“We need to follow Australia’s example and implement a total ban of engineered stone, a dangerous product that is killing workers,” said Polaczuk. ...5 days ago
- How to not hug people you don’t want to hug this holiday season
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- MPs Should Take A Break & Reject Easter Trading Bill
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