Contact energy’s plans to built a big momma (650 MW) wind farm in the Waikato is exactly the sort of thing we need to respond to ever rising oil prices and greenhouse gas emissions. A mini-me (100 MW) gas fired plant will also tag along, which is OK I suppose as it can be fired […]
The Greens are founded on a series of interdependent principles - sustainability, justice, peace and democracy. This piece from Grist nicely illustrates the way that the four of them are linked in a regime which is not democratic or just, uses violence against its citizens, and is destroying forests. We are probably importing the forests […]
Yesterday New Zealand First’s Peter Brown used question time in the House to launch an attack on New Zealand’s immigration policy, arguing that cheap foreign labour was taking skilled kiwi jobs.
“Would the Minister agree that the ability for employers to bring in cheap, foreign labour… has now created the perverse consequences of employers forcing down […]
With the launch of the election campaign, Bob Brown, leader of the Australian Greens, addressed the National Press Club yesterday. This is the start of the his speech:
A decade ago The Greens had a very simple slogan - “No environment no economy�.
Today that is even truer.
Ten years ago it was a warning. Now, in 2007; it […]