All articles by Zoe Deans
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Share your vision for the future of food in Aotearoa
Covid-19 exposed how vulnerable our food system is, and how important it is that everyone can access fresh, local food.
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Fonterra hands over PKE importing to destructive company
Fonterra’s sale of its half share in a palm kernel expeller business to its partner, palm giant Wilmar International, highlights a concerning relationship, says Greenpeace.
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New Govt must phase out synthetic fertiliser: study finds it is driving climate catastrophe
Friday, 9 October: A major new paper, just published in the prestigious science journal Nature, shows that the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is pushing levels of nitrous oxide –…
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Drinking water from the heavily polluted Waikato river
You’d think supplying 1.6 million people and 40,000 businesses with drinking water during a dry year—and the Covid crisis—would be a priority. But recent documents we uncovered show that Watercare is 113th in the queue for Waikato’s water.
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Covid: Three ways to connect with nature to ease lockdown anxiety
Level Three Covid lockdown has brought with it feelings of gloom, anxiety, weariness and a general sense of being ‘over it’. Three ways to connect with nature to ease lockdown anxiety.
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Greenpeace protesters blockade fertiliser factory, Taranaki
Protestors have halted the distribution of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser this morning in Kapuni in Taranaki, citing the chemical’s destructive climate impact.
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Super soil and damning dams: how can Kiwi farmers cope with drought?
Paddocks full of dry, brown grass. Urban drinking water dams shrunk to puddles. Farmers frustrated and scared amid the stress of not having enough food for their animals. Right across…
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Waikato muddying the water for Auckland
Feeling parched? Wait, what? Aucklanders could be drinking water from the slimy brown Waikato River?
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What is regenerative agriculture?
At its core, regenerative agriculture is about farming with the environment, not against it. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is also known as “agroecology,” and “ecological farming”. Organic farming, permaculture and biodynamics are all examples of regenerative agriculture.
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Our rivers at risk
Last week, the Ministry for the Environment released its Our Freshwater 2020 report, detailing the state of Aotearoa’s lakes, rivers and freshwater. And it’s not good.The report shows clearly that…