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Budget: Only loose change for the climate
Greenpeace is quietly applauding the Government’s conservation, freshwater, rail and small home insulation measures announced in today’s Budget. However ...
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Budget 2020: Get future-ready over shovel-ready
Greenpeace is urging the Government to prioritise ‘future-ready’ over ‘shovel-ready’ job solutions in this week’s Covid Recovery Budget.
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Budget 2020: Falling in love with Infra
Infrastructure. If you’d rather snort pepper up your nose and squirt lemon in your eyes than read more about this dreary economic term – you’re probably not the only one.
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The Great Realisation, a poem by Tom Foolery which made me think
I just watched Tom Foolery's beautiful poem, the Great Realisation, and it really made me think about the bedtime story I want to be able to tell my son Emmet as he grows up enough to sit still and listen.
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Take this deal all the way to Invercargill
Goodbye Pork Pie has been made twice so far, once in 1981, again in 2017 and what’s the bet it has at least one more remake in it? It offers…
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Climate explained: why switching to electric transport makes sense even if electricity is not fully renewable
Shutterstock Robert McLachlan, Massey University Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you…
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5 big choices to transform New Zealand for good after Covid
As we weather the storm of Covid, we are also getting rare glimpses of a different, better world. A New Zealand where the streets are quieter, the air is cleaner
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An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists
The social isolation response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Perhaps not since the economic depression of the 1930s and World War II has the human family…
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The essentials of life under Coronavirus Covid lockdown
Since 23.59 last Wednesday there’s been a lot of talk about what constitutes an essential service. Is a bakery an essential service? What if it just makes cupcakes? What about…
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How Jacinda Ardern’s Coronavirus stimulus package could change everything
Right now, the New Zealand Government is poised to announce a sweeping stimulus package to deal with the economic impacts of Covid-19. Done right, it could...
