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The Essential Forest-Gardener – reproducing the forest
Written By: - Date published: 7:21 am, December 18th, 2016 - 22 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
The Essential Forest-Gardener – the humus factor
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, December 11th, 2016 - 22 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
The Essential-Forest Gardener – native or exotic
Written By: - Date published: 7:27 am, December 4th, 2016 - 11 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest, this week looking at usefulness of natives and exotics in a forest garden.
The Essential Forest-Gardener – the trees and the heritage
Written By: - Date published: 7:27 am, November 27th, 2016 - 28 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
More fossil awards for NZ
Written By: - Date published: 11:35 am, November 21st, 2016 - 12 comments
With two more Fossil awards to add to its collection, New Zealand is called out yet again for its lack of action on climate change.
The Essential Forest-Gardener – “don’t destroy life”
Written By: - Date published: 7:23 am, November 20th, 2016 - 10 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest, exploring diversity, stability and the concept of Complexity Gardening.
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….
The Essential Forest-Gardener – what grows in the forest?
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
RMA changes back on agenda
Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, November 9th, 2016 - 19 comments
A good day to dump bad news. Looks like RMA changes are back on agenda, courtesy of the Maori Party.
The Essential Forest-Gardener – tools of the trade
Written By: - Date published: 7:45 am, November 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest, this week looking at untooling and letting nature do the work.
100% Pure
Written By: - Date published: 11:45 am, October 31st, 2016 - 12 comments
A selection of tweets from this morning. You may detect a theme.
The Essential Forest-Gardener – where to start
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, October 30th, 2016 - 12 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
The Essential Forest-Gardener – chapter 3
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 58 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
The Essential Forest-Gardener – chapter 2
Written By: - Date published: 12:05 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 20 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
Water and community
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, October 10th, 2016 - 10 comments
In coming together around a common need to protect water and land, community forms.
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.
The Essential Forest-Gardener
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, October 9th, 2016 - 21 comments
Robert Guyton begins a weekly series on life in a Riverton food forest.
Water and cultural values
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, October 8th, 2016 - 60 comments
Day one of the International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock. Here’s a post on NZ’s relationship with water, and whether water is a resource or a taonga.
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.
Delivering the Green New Deal
Written By: - Date published: 3:40 pm, September 18th, 2016 - 3 comments
London-based macro-economist Ann Pettifor will speak on this topic at Wesley Church, 75 Taranaki Street, Wellington, on Tuesday 20 September at 5:30pm. Ann is a member of the Green New Deal Group, whose proposition is designed to power a renewables revolution, create thousands of green-collar jobs and rein in the distorting power of the finance sector while making more low-cost capital available for pressing priorities. All welcome; more info inside.
Conservation Week
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, September 17th, 2016 - 21 comments
It’s Conservation Week. We should all go and enjoy the great outdoors this weekend… but be careful of the polluted rivers and the wallabies. But at least we’ll be pest-free by 3300…
On the whiner’s excuse “but we are so small”
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, September 6th, 2016 - 20 comments
Damon over at civicanalysis wrote an interesting post over the weekend “How New Zealand can help save the world” (and then pointed my attention to it 🙂 ). It looks at what we can do to structurally alleviate climate change. But also looked at some of the economic benefits
NRT: A death-knell for Ruataniwha?
Written By: - Date published: 12:52 pm, August 31st, 2016 - 54 comments
I/S at No Right Turn writes: If the ruling stands, it won’t just kill the dam, but also National’s policy of trying to crack open reserves for development through an ideology of “net conservation gain”.
“Flushing flows”
Written By: - Date published: 4:46 pm, August 24th, 2016 - 14 comments
A new phrase is about to enter NZ’s clean green image lexicon.
Watershit Down
Written By: - Date published: 7:37 pm, August 22nd, 2016 - 121 comments
John Key has announced an inquiry into the Havelock North water crisis. But has it been set up to fail the residents of the Central Hawkes Bay?
What if there were only 34 more whitebait harvests left?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 19th, 2016 - 78 comments
Water is life not merely wadeable.
The Christchurch Commons
Written By: - Date published: 1:50 pm, August 17th, 2016 - 18 comments
Meanwhile, down in Christchurch the plan is to put water back in the centre of our physical, cultural and spiritual lives.
Grow the Commons
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, August 10th, 2016 - 57 comments
Robert Guyton on reclaiming the Commons one plant at at time.
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.
Wasted food and carbon footprint
Written By: - Date published: 12:34 pm, August 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
The Italian intiaitive encouraging supermarkets to give unsold food to those in need is a great move. Helps the poor, reduces waste, win win. But it’s just a start. We need to massively change attitudes and behaviour to reduce food waste.
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.
- A day when sorry seemed to be the easiest word
A historic day and national apology left survivors wanting more The post A day when sorry seemed to be the easiest word appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago - Ara Taiohi Calls For Abuse Apology To Be Backed Up By Rangatahi-centred Policies
We must build back better, build a system with rangatahi at its very centre. The legacy of this government will be measured by their ability to respond appropriately, to create a physically safe and emotionally nurturing environment for children and ...6 days ago - ‘The room was aching’: Survivors in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch gather for apology
Joel MacManus reports from parliament as the prime minister delivers the national apology for abuse in state care, while Lyric Waiwiri-Smith in Auckland and Alex Casey in Christchurch join survivors watching the livestream. As Andrew Bridgman, the acting chief executive of Oranga Tamariki, began the speeches at the national apology ...6 days ago - Three rooms, one apology: Survivors gather across the motu for abuse in care reckoning
Joel MacManus reports from parliament as the prime minister delivers the national apology for abuse in state care, while Lyric Waiwiri-Smith in Auckland and Alex Casey in Christchurch join survivors watching the livestream. ‘It’s not enough’ – Wellington As Andrew Bridgman, the acting chief executive of Oranga Tamariki, began the ...6 days ago
- Hollow Apology Fails To Resonate With Survivors
Today, the Government had an historic and monumental opportunity to start righting decades of wrongs against survivors. Unfortunately, the Government has yet again let down survivors who placed their trust in it. ...6 days ago
- TOAH-NNEST Rejects Choice Of Parliament For State Apology – True Reckoning Is Concrete Reform &...
The national network says the government should have chosen direct engagement at the flaxroots outlining concrete, meaningful actions for survivor restoration and systemic prevention to ensure this never happens again. ...6 days ago
- Home Education: The Baker whānau
Home Education follows the everyday lives of six families in Aotearoa educating their children at home. Today, education among whales and horses with the Baker whānau. The new docuseries Home Education is filmed across Aotearoa, in and around the homes of six families who have taken schooling outside ...6 days ago
- Great news: New Zealand’s favourite TV show about trucks driving very slowly is back
Tara Ward watches the return of Moving Houses. Seasons change, flowers bloom and bath water grows cold, but one thing never alters: the pulling power of a house on the back of a truck. Moving Houses returned to TVNZ for its third season on Sunday night, and with it a ...6 days ago
- The Baker whānau | Home Education | The Spinoff
“Family is always first” | Watch the full series: http://thespinoff.co.nz/videos/home-education 🐋 When a whale washed up on Tokomaru Bay, Israel and Petrina Baker decided it was important to take time out of school so that their tamariki could learn how to harvest the taonga. Truancy officers were not too pleased, ...6 days ago
- Review: Inside Mystery Festival, Auckland’s most secretive concert
Does a slightly dodgy gimmick make for a majorly shit music festival? As Lyric Waiwiri-Smith finds out, not necessarily. To have entered Auckland’s Mystery Festival on Saturday, you needed stamina, a fondness for drum and bass, break-neck-speed head bopping, a pair of jorts or those ruched Glassons short shorts and, ...6 days ago
- Takatāpui, Rainbow & MVPFAFF+ Survivors Lead Aotearoa’s Journey Toward Truth & Reconcilia...
The research from Takatāpui, Rainbow, and MVPFAFF+ survivors also highlights the urgent need to end State control over children’s care decisions, advocating instead for empowering whānau with the necessary support and resources to provide appropriate ...6 days ago
- The cost of being: A disabled beneficiary who often has to spend bus money on food
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a ‘skint’ 32-year-old on the supported living payment explains how she gets by. Want to be part of The Cost of Being? Fill out the questionnaire here. Gender: Trans woman. Age: 32. Ethnicity: Pākehā. Role: Long-term ...6 days ago
- Minister Using Extraordinary Power Shows Need For Fair Pay Offer At NZDF As Strike Continues
PSA members who are civilian workers escalated industrial action last week after NZDF refused to budge from a zero-pay rise offered during negotiations for a new collective agreement. ...6 days ago
- “The Beginning Of A New Chapter” – Care Experienced Rangatahi Hope Landmark Apology Will Signa...
VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai has been advocating for care experienced rangatahi since 2017, and CEO Tracie Shipton hopes the apology will mark the start of a new and better chapter for care in Aotearoa. ...6 days ago
- A national apology and what’s left unsaid
Government agency and political leaders will apologise today for decades of historic abuse in state care, writes Duncan Greive in today’s extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...6 days ago
- COP29: US climate envoy denounces Trump denialism
Analysis from Azerbaijan: A last small gasp of US climate leadership is drowned out by other countries rushing to fill the void The post COP29: US climate envoy denounces Trump denialism appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- COP29: The last gasp of American climate leadership
Analysis from Azerbaijan: US climate envoy denounces President-elect Donald Trump’s climate denialism The post COP29: The last gasp of American climate leadership appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- What is Cop29? A beginner’s guide to the big climate summit in Baku
Is the global conference more than just a gabfest, and what is it doing in Azerbaijan? What is Cop and why is it 29? Cop is the “conference of the parties” – that is, the 197 parties that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change born out ...6 days ago
- The new stalking law, explained
Legislation that will make stalking illegal will be introduced to parliament before the end of the year. Here’s everything you need to know. Hang on – is stalking currently legal? It’s complicated. A lot of the behaviours that constitute stalking, like sending abusive messages and threatening violence, are already offences ...6 days ago
- Inglis’ unorthodox path to the top
Watching her White Ferns colleagues in the biggest match of their lives should have been straightforward for Otago Sparks wicketkeeper/batter Polly Inglis, but as events unfolded, she was in danger of being left in the dark as the T20 World Cup final reached its closing stages.“Lauren [Down, White Ferns batter] ...6 days ago
- Why Germany’s traffic light coalition got stuck on red
Opinion: What began with a staged image of unity, ended with a piece of political theatre The post Why Germany’s traffic light coalition got stuck on red appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- The case for feeding our 5 million first, before first tonne is exported
How can we claim to be a healthy, nutritious, sustainable food producer for the world when we fall short at home? The post The case for feeding our 5 million first, before first tonne is exported appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Tuesday 12 November
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- Deepfake porn showing up in New Zealand classrooms
Artificial Intelligence has gone bad in our classrooms.A new trend is emerging called pornographic deepfakes, created by students, of students. It’s increasing. And it’s devastating.“They look real… whilst the individual knows they are not… they are pretty accurate, and this brings a sense of shame and embarrassment to the victim, ...6 days ago
- Daily crossword, Tuesday 12 November
The post Daily crossword, Tuesday 12 November appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- A stony silence in Te Awamutu
In 1982 my wife, Amala, and I returned to Auckland after studying mask and movement at the Scuola Nuova Scena in Bologna. Soon after arriving we formed the performing duo, The Humanimals. With assistance from the QEII Arts Council, as it was then called, we toured New Zealand and Australia ...6 days ago
- Parody and satire bill would allow us to safely poke fun at the world
Analysis: The Green Party’s Copyright (Parody and Satire) Amendment Bill would be a welcome change to New Zealand’s copyright law. The bill was pulled out of the ballot late last week. It aims to allow comedians to use copyright protected material to poke fun at the world. Lampooning our politicians, designing memes that ...6 days ago
- Pacific foundation fights on after Govt funding cuts
‘Let’s take a risk,’ chief executive says of decision to continue Pacific trust’s work after losing state funding The post Pacific foundation fights on after Govt funding cuts appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- The big apology is here, but the big action is yet to come
Comment: On Tuesday, Una Jagose will stand before survivors at Parliament.The Solicitor-General is one of seven key public sector leaders who will apologise on behalf of their departments to those who have suffered abuse while in state care.The others are the heads of Oranga Tamariki (Andrew Bridgman), Health (Diana Sarfati), ...6 days ago
- Climate summit fails to launch as countries battle over agenda
The summit in Baku, Azerbaijan has got off to a less-than-auspicious start – COP29 delegates have failed even to agree an agenda for the meeting after more than seven hours of deliberations.Behind closed doors, countries are debating how to carry forward COP28’s pledge to transition away from fossil fuels, the ...6 days ago
- Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build a nation’
Since setting off Monday morning numbers have swelled from a couple hundred to well over 1000 people, demonstrating their opposition to the coalition government's controversial Treaty Principles Bill and other policies impacting Māori. ...7 days ago
- Speaker lifts ban on Newsroom journalist ahead of Crown apology
House Speaker Gerry Brownlee has rescinded his decision to ban Newsroom journalist Aaron Smale from tomorrow’s national apology to survivors of abuse in care, after a day of high-profile public reaction.Brownlee has issued a temporary accreditation for Smale, who will be able to report on the historic events at Parliament.The ...7 days ago
- Barring Aaron Smale from the abuse in care apology is a very, very bad joke
The grim irony of prohibiting a journalist who has shown such tenacity in the face of an obstructive state. The story of abuse in New Zealand state and faith-based care is a long and sorry dirge of ignominy. To which can now be added: the decision to deny Aaron Smale ...7 days ago
- Why I made a ‘punk rock’ documentary about gender in Aotearoa
Perrin Hastings, creator and host of The Gender Agenda, shares their personal journey to making a new local series about gender for rangatahi. From a very young age, I knew I was going off-script. I would sit and study television shows where gay characters were punchlines. If there was a ...1 week ago
- Apology will be hollow without meaningful legal and system changes
On Tuesday the Prime Minister will apologise in Parliament to survivors of abuse in care. His speech will follow apologies from heads of ministries called out as offenders by the final report of the Abuse in Care Royal Commission. The event will be live-streamed alongside simultaneous events hosted in Auckland, ...1 week ago
- Open Letter Against Oceana Gold And Fast Track Expansion
“Oceana Gold have opted to use the Fast Track legislation to go ahead with the Waihi North gold mining project at Waihi and in the conservation forest at Wharekirauponga. ...1 week ago
- The NZ Super Fund has Israeli investments worth $35m. Could it divest?
Sanctions would likely require a law change, but there’s another path the government could consider if it chooses to take a tougher line. The decision by Israel’s parliament to designate the United Nations’ Palestinian relief agency UNRWA a “terrorist organisation” has been condemned by many governments, with claims it will ...1 week ago
- For abuse in care survivors, an apology without action means nothing
Tomorrow, the prime minister will deliver a national apology for abuse that occurred in state and faith-based care. But for survivors, redress and accountability still look to be a long way off, writes Steve Goodlass. As we drew closer to the date of the public apology, the response minister Erica ...1 week ago
- Inside the urgent race to solve homelessness in Aotearoa
As homelessness hits an all-time high, New Zealand’s frontline organisations are embracing unconventional and innovative strategies. Joel MacManus takes a closer look at the crisis and meets the people who claim to have the cure. Photos taken by David Jensen on an outing in Wellington, October 2024. The names of ...1 week ago
- Hīkoi (v.24)
A poem by Ātea editor Liam Rātana. We should write something about it— strange if we didn’t. You’d want something insightful, wouldn’t you, something about feet moving, fists pounding, flags waving, horns honking, voices shouting loud enough to wake even the deepest sleep. We’re always angry, ready to mobilise, ...1 week ago
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