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Iceland: Killing whales makes no economic sense

Feature story | February 4, 2009 at 1:19

Killing whales to save the economy? It sounds like a terrible idea. Last week, the Icelandic government resigned, following widespread protests over its handling of the financial crisis. On his way out the door, outgoing Fisheries Minister Einar...

Obama and Lula need to bail out the Amazon

Feature story | March 15, 2009 at 20:57

Today President Obama will be meeting President Lula of Brazil for the first time and saving the economy will be at the top of their agenda. But they need to add a new item: Saving the Earth. Twenty percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions...

The clean green principled economy (2/3)

Blog entry by Maya McNicoll | January 30, 2013

“ It takes 20 years to build a reputation and only five Minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you will do things differently. ” - Warren Buffet Yesterday we spoke about the 70% of export revenue that is directly attributable...

Connecting climate change and economic recovery

Blog entry by bunny | March 10, 2009

In this video the economist Nicholas Stern discusses the 'economic downturn' and its effect on the climate change agenda. The economic slowdown has prompted some public and private leaders to question whether the...

The clean green principled economy (1/3)

Blog entry by Maya McNicoll | January 29, 2013

New Zealand is a commodities exporter…okay okay, I know that’s not a super sexy opening line, but don’t worry this isn’t an economics lecture, well it kind of is, but I’ll try and keep it brief and on point. New Zealand makes her...

Save the Green Collar Job!

Blog entry by Michael Tritt | July 1, 2011

Last week I spoke on behalf of Greenpeace at a packed public meeting in Dunedin, where the community is trying to save forty important jobs from being axed - by Government-owned Kiwirail. These jobs, at the Hillside rail workshop,...

The nuts and bolts of building a new clean economy

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | February 14, 2013

Earlier this week, we launched a report that showed that our clean energy sector could become the beating heart of our nation’s economy whilst creating many tens of thousands of jobs. Here's the infographic , the report , and the ...

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