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Cut the cows – a double whammy for the environment
It’s often said that domestic opinion doesn’t count for much in this country. Watch though, as heads turn and lattes spill when that same opinion comes from across the water. It’s our endearing lack of self confidence and charming inferiority complex at work. Kiwi artists and musicians will struggle for years for domestic recognition but…
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Oil conference in lockdown as protesters blockade entrance
Tangata Whenua and people from all over New Zealand are currently blockading the Petroleum Summit in New Plymouth, to prevent government and oil industry delegates from entering the TSB Showplace.
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Help name our new boat
Wow we did it! Together, we’ve bought 'The People's Boat'. Almost 1,000 people chipped in and together we have bought the boat that’s going to confront the Amazon Warrior - AKA 'The Beast.'
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To save the climate, we must all push beyond our comfort zones
I’ve always been mortified of breaking the rules. Looking back at my childhood and teens, I’m almost embarrassed by how righteously rule-abiding I’ve been. Never once got a detention in school. Never ever handed an assignment in late. Never got yellow-carded in soccer. I come from a family where “don’t stick your neck out” is…
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Greenpeace NZ crowdfunding boat to confront seismic blaster ‘The Beast’
Greenpeace is crowdfunding to buy a boat to confront the world’s biggest seismic blasting ship, the Amazon Warrior, as it searches for oil off the East Coast of the North Island.
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Is Nick Smith Minister for Magic?
It seems the critical issue of clean swimmable water for New Zealanders has passed into the realms of magical realism. Minister for Magic, Nick Smith waved his blue wand and wadeable rivers miraculously turned into ones you can swim in.
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Don’t get freaked by the eco
Funny how, over time, crazy weird becomes the new normal. There were certainly some nutty ideas floating around when I was a young fella studying Agricultural Economics at Lincoln University last millennium.
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Swimmable rivers: Greenpeace says look below the surface.
Greenpeace is encouraging voters to look below the surface of the Government’s new announcement on swimmable rivers.
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New HSBC ‘no deforestation’ policy first step towards sustainable palm oil finance
HSBC today published a new ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ policy covering its financing of palm oil companies. [1]
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Our RSVP to PEPANZ
This year, for the first time ever, PEPANZ have invited us to the petroleum conference. Every year New Zealand hosts this conference to discuss the oil and gas industry's future.