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Covid-19 Build Back Better: A disability lens on digging deep
I’m a blind twenty-something from Aotearoa, and when the Covid pandemic hit in March, I got lucky.
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I love fugly
So remind me again, what’s so great about oceans? Beaches, yeah great, sunsets, romantic walks, sand between the toes.
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Even ScoMo’s asking where our climate action on farming is
Australian PM Scott Morrison has highlighted NZ’s failure to commit to reducing farm methane emissions. The perfect riposte is to demand our Government fix that huge methane and nitrous hole in our climate policy...
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Coke’s plastic report: Must do better
Just about nobody on the entire planet is saying, “hey, you know what, let’s do diddly squat about the plastic pollution crisis.”
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Why all human rights depend on a healthy environment
Recent revelations about the speed and scale of nature’s decline are hard to truly comprehend. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago has the diversity and abundance of…
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How to protect the oceans in three steps
The oceans near and far are in trouble. In the face of multiple stressors, from destructive fishing to climate change, the oceans are struggling to recover. But together we can protect them.
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Art, indigenous rights and ocean protection
The kaupapa of this drawing for me was to highlight the basics: our corals are dying, our sea bed suffers, and we need to hold companies like Talley’s accountable. Entwined within this message is a reminder from myself and from the people I had wānanga with that we need to look to māori for guidance…
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Why activists around New Zealand are Telling on Talley’s
For the past few weeks, community activists across New Zealand have been spreading the word about a business that’s been trashing the oceans for years.
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What My Octopus Teacher has to teach us
If a few hours in a submarine can teach us this much about an ecosystem, imagine what can be learned by spending a year getting to know one octopus?
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Five ways NZ will be much better if Jacinda makes good on her promise to Build Back Better
Jacinda Ardern pledged, on election night, to build back better. With her landslide election win, there really is no excuse not to. So, what could Aotearoa New Zealand look like in ten years’ time, if the Labour-led Government makes good on this promise?