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Environmental Policy Performance of the Ardern Government Ahead of Election 2020
The Ardern-led Government, elected in 2017, promised to be environmental leaders. The Prime Minister in her election campaign launch speech called climate change “my generation’s nuclear free moment”. She said “we will clean up our rivers”. So, now that we are weeks away from the 2020 Election, let’s look at how it’s going.
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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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How to deal with stress and burnout in the age of climate and covid crisis?
In times like these, to care is both a burden and a blessing. You may or may not identify as an activist, but if you’ve staked your caring heart on social justice, the climate, or the environment, then this article is for you.
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Coffee in lockdown: Can you use a reusable coffee cup in Covid Level 3 or Level 2 lockdown?
A coffee-addicted, Auckland-based plastics campaigner shares hot tips on how to stick with a reusable coffee cup and still get the delicious, life-giving, coffee whilst avoiding takeaway coffee cups during lockdown!
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Watch: The Edge of the World
At the start of 2020 Greenpeace was down in the Antarctic on the final leg of the Pole to Pole voyage. Watch the mini documentary of what the team discovered on their journey.
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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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Activists swim to oil rig to show that Denmark is not as green as people think
Four activists have swum from the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior across the Dan oil field in the Danish North Sea and are occupying an oil rig
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One of the world’s biggest oil companies has promised to produce much less oil. Here’s what you need to know.
BP’s new plan could be a real breakthrough in the fight against the climate crisis. This isn’t the end of the story, but it might be the start of a…
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Covid taught us that to protect nature, is to protect ourselves
The New Zealand Government’s health-first approach to collective wellbeing in the face of Covid-19 is commendable. They need to follow that logic through to the coming economic rebuild and beyond.
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Where did 5,500 tonnes of discarded face masks end up?
It’s been over six months since COVID-19 swept across and ravaged the world, and in an effort to contain this unprecedented outbreak, face masks have become a necessity. However, an…
