Archive for June, 2007

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  those c-c-c-razy mmp parties… - by frog

  
  
  
  are at it again. This time with a Code of Conduct. Highlights of the joint press conference included both Peter Dunne and Rodney Hide being grilled on whether they could dare to diss name calling when they have both been prominent proponents of ‘playing the ball rather than the gender neutral sportsperson.’ Hide reckoned he [...] read more
  June 12, 2007 5:09 pm - 30 Comments
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  Hope for Maui’s dolphins? - by frog

  
  
  
  Conservation Minister Chris Carter has been making promising noises in response to Forest & Bird’s proposal to set up a marine mammal sanctuary off the north-west coast of the North Island to protect the critically endangered Maui’s dolphin. Metiria pitched in to support the proposal saying that the Department of Conservation has dragged the chain [...] read more
  June 11, 2007 3:16 pm - 3 Comments
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  How right were we? - by frog

  
  
  
  Well it’s all over, G8 has talked about climate change and come up with a firm decision that someone should be doing something. The leaders decided that emissions should be reduced by 50 percent by 2050, but how that was to happen was left unsaid. They also agreed that each of the eight countries must [...] read more
  June 8, 2007 4:43 pm - 14 Comments
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  Weird things on the weather front - by frog

  
  
  
  It has not gone unnoticed that some strange things appear to be happening with the weather. Hmmm, wonder what’s going on? Here’s the latest highlights from NIWA for autumn: Major Highlights: The highest temperature recorded during the autumn was 32 °C recorded at Darfield on 5 March, and Culverden on 24 March. On 1 May, [...] read more
  June 7, 2007 1:59 pm - 32 Comments
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  How to do nothing about climate change - by frog

  
  
  
  With the G8 meeting about to kick off in Germany, it has become clear that both Bush and Hu and Wen – no, not who and when? Hu and Wen. (Sorry couldn’t resist), have realised they had better say somethng about climate change, before German Chancellor Angela Merkel bullies them into something they don’t actually [...] read more
  June 6, 2007 10:20 am - 26 Comments
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  can’t justify staying at home in pj’s using carbon footprint - by frog

  
  
  
  according to the Daily Telegraph. This article reckons that while working at home might reduce carbon created from the commute, other variables such as making a cuppa and heating the home may outweigh that. Will just have to use the “frogs consistently score higher on productivity tests when working from the couch” argument instead. read more
  June 5, 2007 10:10 am - 32 Comments
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  Green AGM - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  And so the 2007 Green Party conference has come to an end. The party is in good shape. I thought that it might be a pretty quiet conference – mid way through the electoral cycle and after the large conference last year (with all the interest in the male co-leadership contest). But there were more [...] read more
  June 4, 2007 3:26 pm - 55 Comments
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  green tide laps on Nelson’s shores - by frog

  
  
  
  The AGM and Annual Conference starts tonight in Nelson, and goes until Monday, and as Frog speaks people from across the country are converging on the (hopefully) sunny top of the South. Though given the weather in Wellington some flights and/or ferry trips may be in doubt….. Seems the agenda could be dominated by media [...] read more
  June 1, 2007 3:35 pm - 172 Comments
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  miles and miles of food miles - by frog

  
  
  
  Food miles have hit the headlines again, this time infuriating our vintners. Here’s the document at the centre of that argument (which follows closely on a similiar slight to NZ wine in the Observer). It seems though that the concept is getting more sophisticated with the intimation that UK food miles labelling will not simply [...] read more
  June 1, 2007 11:39 am - 20 Comments