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Book review: Eaarth

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:59 am, May 28th, 2017 - 3 comments

Last Sunday I recycled an old book review. Here’s another one from the vaults, “Eaarth”, by Bill McKibben (of 350.org). It doesn’t pull any punches.

Stunning nature

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:00 am, May 27th, 2017 - 31 comments

Drilling for oil we shouldn’t use, in a place that should remain untouched. Is this really what NZ wants?

The Greens respond to the Budget

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:03 am, May 26th, 2017 - 72 comments

James Shaw on National as the masters of the shell game.

$14 billion to meet Paris Agreement targets

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:01 am, May 23rd, 2017 - 16 comments

Why isn’t National taking active steps to curb our emissions? We committed to reduce to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, instead we are expected to increase. This is a massive failure of vision, commitment, and competence.

Let’s green the red zone

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, May 22nd, 2017 - 91 comments

A Christchurch community group has come out with an outstanding solution for what to do with red zone land that is currently unusable.

Book review: Here on Earth – An Argument for Hope

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:01 am, May 21st, 2017 - 12 comments

A brief review of Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope, by Tim Flannery. An argument for hope is exactly what we need, but does Flannery make the case?

The costs and benefits of having a habitable planet to live on

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 3:20 pm, May 3rd, 2017 - 24 comments

I guess any sign of sanity is to be encouraged. But. When the Nats came to power there was a framework for reducing carbon. The Nats dismantled or weakened it. Now, nine long years later, they want Yet Another Study?

Donald Trump and Florida

Written By: advantage - Date published: 11:55 am, April 27th, 2017 - 11 comments

The US economy may start unravelling when because of rising sea levels boats in Florida are no longer able to clear canal bridges.

Thank you Charlie.

Written By: Bill - 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.

David Cunliffe’s final speech

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:53 am, April 23rd, 2017 - 28 comments

The text of David Cunliffe’s final speech delivered to the New Lynn Labour Party earlier this week where he decries neoliberalism and worries about the world’s environmental future.

The watershed moment

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:51 am, April 21st, 2017 - 12 comments

The sun is shining again, how about we talk about the weather?

“We are unstoppable, another world is possible”

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:36 am, April 15th, 2017 - 45 comments

Activism and protest done well, here are the faces of the emerging climate justice movement in NZ.

Stormy weather in the North

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:08 pm, April 13th, 2017 - 65 comments

You’d have to say that an Easter cyclone is one of those truly awful scenarios for Auckland. Forget the water. What happens when the Harbour Bridge and the Airport probably close? It is going to be a hell of an Easter on the roads and travelling. More extreme weather brought to you from climate change.

Climate change, political heroes, political culture

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:06 am, April 13th, 2017 - 117 comments

How ironic that Parliament is to debate climate change today, as the latest in a torrent of warming-fueled extreme weather events bears down on the country, and as the government charges Russel Norman and the other heroes trying to end oil exploration in NZ waters.

Weather warnings – be prepared

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:16 pm, April 12th, 2017 - 10 comments

Newshub: “MetService warns Cyclone Cook will be the worst to hit NZ since 1968, people advised to stock up on food and water”

Greenpeace’s Taitu confronts oil exploration ship

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:38 am, April 11th, 2017 - 27 comments

Thank you Greenpeace, and specifically thank you Russel Norman and the crew of the Taitu, for taking to the seas to fight this little battle in the most important struggle of our age.

Perhaps climate change will go away if we ignore it?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:25 am, April 11th, 2017 - 22 comments

That seems to be Bill English’s position.

Thoughts are with Edgecumbe

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:14 pm, April 6th, 2017 - 43 comments

Photo from the Whakatane Beacon.

South Dunedin and sea level rise

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:00 am, April 6th, 2017 - 44 comments

Dunedin now has a sea level rise database. Given the number of floods in the North Island in the past month it’s time for the rest of NZ to start taking climate change seriously.

North Island weather bomb

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:01 pm, April 4th, 2017 - 28 comments

Further very heavy rain is expected over the North Island in the next 12 hours. Civil Emergencies have been declared in several places.

Greenpeace got themselves a bigger boat…

Written By: weka - 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”

Trumping Idiocy

Written By: Bill - Date published: 4:59 pm, March 29th, 2017 - 28 comments

If you are absolutely determined to be one of the idiot legion who’re forever squirreling their heads deeper into sand, then don’t read this post.

Right-wing American stupidity is now a global crisis

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:04 am, March 29th, 2017 - 47 comments

The Trump regime has begun the process of dismantling environmental protections in America, including those designed to limit carbon emissions / climate change.

Global oil and global decline

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:45 am, March 26th, 2017 - 26 comments

Peak oil is being talked again with suggestions that it may be only 5 years away. And Saudi Arabia’s Aramco is thinking of starting to divest itself of its petroleum assets.

Oil prospecting on the shores of Lake Te Anau?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - 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.

Greenpeace protesting oil conference in New Plymouth

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:55 am, March 22nd, 2017 - 3 comments

Greenpeace protestors are blockading an oil conference in New Plymouth. “If we’re to have a future, oil can have no future.”

Climate Change and Us

Written By: Ben Clark - 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.