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Transition at the Limits of What People Can Cope With
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, September 7th, 2022 - 39 comments
Many European governments now face a perfect storm of threatened energy security, rising inflation, war-propelled refugee crisis, and climate objectives. New Zealand be warned.
Voting for our lives: protecting the environment from the late capitalism death cult
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.
This is what the climate crisis looks like in New Zealand, so far
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.
By Nature Unfair
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, August 18th, 2022 - 28 comments
You can be the most moral nation on earth and have no reward for it.
National’s weird take on the Government’s Climate Adaption Plan
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, August 4th, 2022 - 7 comments
The Government’s release of the National Adaption Plan to deal with climate change has been met by National with an insistence that who should pay for potentially hundreds of billions of costs should have already been identified.
What New Zealanders are thinking about climate change
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, August 3rd, 2022 - 29 comments
A new Ipsos poll has some good news.
Act on climate
Written By: - Date published: 6:15 am, July 27th, 2022 - 27 comments
Everything we do matters. Stories of hope and renewal.
Book Review: David Holmgren’s ‘RetroSuburbia’
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 22nd, 2022 - 93 comments
The ‘what if?’ at the heart of RetroSuburbia is “what if our suburbs were reimagined and repurposed to be sustainable, productive and vibrant?” Good question. – Rob Hopkins
Unthinkable Renationalisation
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, July 21st, 2022 - 57 comments
Europe is leading the global fight against climate change by rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels. This now includes fully renationalising energy companies and forced decreases in gas use. What could New Zealand learn?
“Fight fossil fuels or the future dies”
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.
Should our future lie with NATO?
Written By: - Date published: 3:23 pm, June 21st, 2022 - 62 comments
Not content to stay in the North Atlantic, NATO is shortly about to reveal in Madrid its next ten-year plan to contain China. Jacinda Ardern will be there, who knows why. Are we nailing our colours to a flag at half-mast?
The 2022 Energy Crisis Is Right Here Right Now
Written By: - Date published: 4:56 pm, June 19th, 2022 - 44 comments
Every part of our energy-dense life from plastic to tarmac to food to clothes to building materials is about to get smashed like we ain’t seen.
He Waka Eke Noa?
Written By: - Date published: 8:02 am, June 10th, 2022 - 16 comments
The He Waka Eke Noa report recommends the introduction of farm-level split-gas levy on agricultural emissions. The anticipated savings are very small and reliant on Government proposals for the sector to reaching the Government target of 10% methane reduction. Are we really all in this together?
parts per million
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, June 7th, 2022 - 10 comments
Prince Louis and the perfect tweet.
Climate politics
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.
When Dumb Corporates Kill Thousands. Here.
Written By: - Date published: 11:24 am, May 30th, 2022 - 4 comments
New Zealand King Salmon has revealed that 42% of their salmon in warm water areas for the year ending January 2022 were just dead and chucked away. Salmon towed to cooler water had a lower rate of 37%. As SAFE points out if this had happened to a beef or dairy farmer they would be […]
Wood announces boost to Coastal shipping
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, May 25th, 2022 - 36 comments
Transport Minister Michael Wood has announced funding to increase coastal shipping services in New Zealand in a move that will decrease highway congestion, reduce wear and tear on roads, improve employment, support regional development and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Longing for a low carbon future
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
The Emissions Reduction Plan we voted for
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, May 17th, 2022 - 33 comments
what kind of climate action do we want?
Announcing New Zealand’s low carbon future
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
The politics of opposition to cycleways
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, May 8th, 2022 - 53 comments
Opposition to Auckland Council’s Cycling and Micromobility Programme Business Case appears to be motivated by the belief that plans to have more of the population walk and cycle instead of using cars will be unpopular. Overseas experience suggests that not only can these types of projects contribute significantly to sustainability but they can also be very popular.
XR protestors have stopped operations at a Southland coal mine
Written By: - Date published: 2:15 pm, May 2nd, 2022 - 60 comments
Go you beautiful people!
What if… Dunedin no longer needed so much petrol?
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.
The approaching fuel crisis: what if we no longer needed so much petrol?
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?
Luxon’s strange Public Transport take
Written By: - Date published: 8:29 am, April 13th, 2022 - 66 comments
Yesterday Chris Luxon showed the sensitivity and sophistication of someone who owns seven properties and at one stage had 6.1 million Air New Zealand shares by stating that he believed that at least some public transport services should not be supported and that public transport needs to stand on its own feet.
Plant based foods
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, April 12th, 2022 - 122 comments
Worrying news has emerged that New Zealand officials sought along with other agricultural nations to remove references to the benefits of consuming plant based foods on climate change from the IPCC report summary.
Climate Action Mondays: after the IPCC report, what now?
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, April 11th, 2022 - 87 comments
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it.
Last chance to see or finally acting as if our lives depend on it?
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.
Climate Action Mondays: slow fashion
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, April 4th, 2022 - 44 comments
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it. Here are the things we can do and we can require government and business to do.
Climate Action Mondays Tuesday
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, March 29th, 2022 - 10 comments
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it.
Crisis, What Crisis?
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, March 22nd, 2022 - 88 comments
There is only so much New Zealand and its government can do to soften the blows of the instability that are besetting the world. And the problem is without dramatic change New Zealand will remain one of the most car-addicted, petrol reliant societies on earth for several decades to come.
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Professor Andrew Geddis says the refusal shows the 'stand-off' between the tikanga of Parliament and tikanga Māori. ...5 days ago
- Te Pāti Māori MPs’ absence from Privileges Committee won’t stop hearing – law ex...
Professor Andrew Geddis says the refusal shows the 'stand-off' between the tikanga of Parliament and tikanga Māori. ...5 days ago
- The case for being a night owl
On all the joy that can be had – and admin that can be done – when you stay up late. In primary school, I loved diorama assignments. A Jurassic scene complete with a volcano, a historic building made of cake – these were my Super Bowl. I could’ve worked ...5 days ago
- The case for being a night owl
On all the joy that can be had – and admin that can be done – when you stay up late. In primary school, I loved diorama assignments. A Jurassic scene complete with a volcano, a historic building made of cake – these were my Super Bowl. I could’ve worked ...5 days ago
- Should Shakespeare be compulsory? A student’s perspective
A secondary school student debates the proposal that Shakespeare become compulsory for year 12 and 13 students. The new draft for the New Zealand English curriculum has proposed compulsory Shakespeare for all year 12 and 13 students. It also has suggested texts including World War I poets, Winston Churchill’s World ...5 days ago
- Should Shakespeare be compulsory? A student’s perspective
A secondary school student debates the proposal that Shakespeare become compulsory for year 12 and 13 students. The new draft for the New Zealand English curriculum has proposed compulsory Shakespeare for all year 12 and 13 students. It also has suggested texts including World War I poets, Winston Churchill’s World ...5 days ago
- Chief human rights commissioner accused of Islamophobia by Jewish groups
The alleged comments were made in a meeting with a Jewish community leader. Three New Zealand community groups, two representing Jewish voices, are calling for Stephen Rainbow to resign from his role as chief human rights commissioner after what they believe were Islamophobic comments made during an official meeting with ...5 days ago
- Chief human rights commissioner accused of Islamophobia by Jewish groups
The alleged comments were made in a meeting with a Jewish community leader. Three New Zealand community groups, two representing Jewish voices, are calling for Stephen Rainbow to resign from his role as chief human rights commissioner after what they believe were Islamophobic comments made during an official meeting with ...5 days ago
- Ukraine a case study in how NZ needs to change defence spending – Hipkins
The Labour leader says an increase in defence spending is justified regardless of whether New Zealanders support it or not. ...5 days ago
- Ukraine a case study in how NZ needs to change defence spending – Hipkins
The Labour leader says an increase in defence spending is justified regardless of whether New Zealanders support it or not. ...5 days ago
- Health NZ reveals scrapped digital projects, says they’re unrelated to staff data breach
The agency has stopped or delayed 136 initiatives, including a much-lauded patient information system. ...5 days ago
- Health NZ reveals scrapped digital projects, says they’re unrelated to staff data breach
The agency has stopped or delayed 136 initiatives, including a much-lauded patient information system. ...5 days ago
- Winston Peters Rails Against “Marxists” And Declares “War On Woke”
Peters promised to carry out a “war on woke", a term which the far-right uses to refer to everything from identity politics & affirmative action programs, to education about the brutal history of colonisation, protections against discrimination, environmental ...5 days ago
- Rainbow Wellington Condemns Threats Against Rainbow MP
People are entitled to their opinions on what language is acceptable for MPs to use in social media. However, to imply that a rainbow parent is unsafe to their child without any evidence is completely unacceptable. ...5 days ago
- CubaDupa captured a sense of defiant joy
Wellingtonians are so used to negative media narratives that celebrating their city feels like a radical act. In that context, CubaDupa’s ‘communal joy’ theme made perfect sense, write Joel MacManus and Lyric Waiwiri-Smith. The theme of this year’s CubaDupa was “communal joy”. At first glance, it’s an eye-roller; less of ...5 days ago
- CubaDupa captured a sense of defiant joy
Wellingtonians are so used to negative media narratives that celebrating their city feels like a radical act. In that context, CubaDupa’s ‘communal joy’ theme made perfect sense, write Joel MacManus and Lyric Waiwiri-Smith. The theme of this year’s CubaDupa was “communal joy”. At first glance, it’s an eye-roller; less of ...5 days ago
- You don’t have to be called Steve to be a stevedore
As the Govt changes the law to prioritise ‘merit-based appointments’, the Port of Auckland’s boss explains why diversity and inclusion is good business The post You don’t have to be called Steve to be a stevedore appeared first on Newsroom. ...5 days ago - You don’t have to be called Steve to be a stevedore
As the Govt changes the law to prioritise ‘merit-based appointments’, the Port of Auckland’s boss explains why diversity and inclusion is good business The post You don’t have to be called Steve to be a stevedore appeared first on Newsroom. ...5 days ago
- Dogs see their world through smell – and scientists are starting to translate it like never before
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University Lorenzooooo/Shutterstock Scent is how dogs largely experience the world, a lot like the way we humans rely on sight. We know little about how dogs interpret scent, but thanks to a ...5 days ago - Dogs see their world through smell – and scientists are starting to translate it like never before
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University Lorenzooooo/Shutterstock Scent is how dogs largely experience the world, a lot like the way we humans rely on sight. We know little about how dogs interpret scent, but thanks to a ...5 days ago
- William Wordsworth’s last home is up for sale – returning it to a private residence would be a l...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Wilcockson, Research assistant, University of Glasgow Until recently, fans of William Wordsworth could visit his final home, Rydal Mount and Gardens, nestled in the heart of England’s green and beautiful Lake District. Renowned as one of the most prominent British poets, ...5 days ago
- William Wordsworth’s last home is up for sale – returning it to a private residence would be a l...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Wilcockson, Research assistant, University of Glasgow Until recently, fans of William Wordsworth could visit his final home, Rydal Mount and Gardens, nestled in the heart of England’s green and beautiful Lake District. Renowned as one of the most prominent British poets, ...5 days ago
- ‘Putin’s brain’: Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist who has endorsed Donald Trump
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Riehle, Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London Aleksandr Dugin, sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain” because of his ideological influence on Russian politics, endorsed the policies of Donald Trump in a CNN interview aired on March 30. ...5 days ago
- ‘Putin’s brain’: Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist who has endorsed Donald Trump
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Riehle, Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London Aleksandr Dugin, sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain” because of his ideological influence on Russian politics, endorsed the policies of Donald Trump in a CNN interview aired on March 30. ...5 days ago
- Canada a 51st state? Here’s how American annexation could actually favour Canada
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felix Arndt, Professor and John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph When United States President Donald Trump first floated the idea of annexing Canada, many observers rolled their eyes. The common assumption was that this proposal, like much of Trump’s ...5 days ago
- Canada a 51st state? Here’s how American annexation could actually favour Canada
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felix Arndt, Professor and John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph When United States President Donald Trump first floated the idea of annexing Canada, many observers rolled their eyes. The common assumption was that this proposal, like much of Trump’s ...5 days ago
- ‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giulio Ponte, Research Engineer at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research, University of Adelaide Serhii Milekhin/Shutterstock When a vehicle and a cyclist collide, the cyclist almost always emerges worse off. Globally, more than 40,000 cyclists are killed and millions more seriously ...5 days ago
- ‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giulio Ponte, Research Engineer at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research, University of Adelaide Serhii Milekhin/Shutterstock When a vehicle and a cyclist collide, the cyclist almost always emerges worse off. Globally, more than 40,000 cyclists are killed and millions more seriously ...5 days ago
- Defence is shaping up to be a key election issue, whether politicians like it or not
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter J. Dean, Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney International and domestic policy have collided in Australia in recent weeks with a force not seen in decades. Foreign policy concerns have dominated media headlines, from ...5 days ago
- Defence is shaping up to be a key election issue, whether politicians like it or not
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter J. Dean, Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney International and domestic policy have collided in Australia in recent weeks with a force not seen in decades. Foreign policy concerns have dominated media headlines, from ...5 days ago
- New RNZ-Reid Research poll: Half of Kiwis want defence spending to increase
It comes on the back of increases announced by Australia, the UK, and other European nations. ...5 days ago
- New RNZ-Reid Research poll: Half of Kiwis want defence spending to increase
It comes on the back of increases announced by Australia, the UK, and other European nations. ...5 days ago
- Cancer patients from migrant backgrounds have a 1 in 3 chance of something going wrong in their care
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ashfaq Chauhan, Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University SeventyFour/Shutterstock More than 7 million people in Australia were born overseas. Some 5.8 million people report speaking a language other than English at home. But how well are we ...5 days ago
- Cancer patients from migrant backgrounds have a 1 in 3 chance of something going wrong in their care
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ashfaq Chauhan, Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University SeventyFour/Shutterstock More than 7 million people in Australia were born overseas. Some 5.8 million people report speaking a language other than English at home. But how well are we ...5 days ago
- Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next governme...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Christina Zdenek Australia is a place of great natural beauty, home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. But it’s also particularly vulnerable to ...5 days ago
- Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next governme...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Christina Zdenek Australia is a place of great natural beauty, home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. But it’s also particularly vulnerable to ...5 days ago
- Giving up a daily coffee or weekly parma? How the cost-of-living crisis is reshaping our spending ha...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and Behavioural Business Lab Member, RMIT University Bangkok Click Studio/Shutterstock Remember when grabbing a coffee was just… grabbing a coffee? When a parma at the local was a budget meal? When ...5 days ago
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