Archive for December 20th, 2005

Wrapping up Christmas

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Today is December 20 and unless you’re all masochists and love being crushed by sweaty, bag-laden shoppers in the last minute Christmas shopping frenzy, all your present purchases are tucked away in the wardrobe - right?
But now comes the hard part - the wrapping!
This year, instead of adding to the mountains of colourful waste paper […]

The insurers are taking it seriously

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Next time you hear someone telling you that we don’t need to do anything about climate change you may want to refer them to the insurance industry.
IAG is the parent company for NZI and State. It’s 2005 sustainability report ’see’ has an excellent graphic showing the cost of recent weather events in New Zealand. […]

Carbon emissions, consumption omission

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

It struck me that the two high profile international summits of the last few weeks ended in much the same way. Both the climate change talks in Montreal and the trade talks in Hong Kong ended with committments to keep talking and not a lot else. Not surprisingly, whether you thought this was […]