I’ve been sent emails all week by people asking ‘are you going to write about the walk the walk crew who are walking all the way from Auckland to Happy Valley on the West Coast of the South Island, near Westport?’ It’s been a busy week, what with Helen Clark and John Key both […]
I’ve got a confession to make. There is someone really quite hot working around the parliamentary press gallery, and I want to, well, get to know them better, so to speak.
After the Madeleine Setchell kerfuffle there has been a fair amount of discussion around Parliament about what is an appropriate relationship for people working in […]
From his media release this afternoon:
“Not only [has the Government] failed to solve the problems threatening New Zealand’s biodiversity which were the key problems identified in the 1997 report, we now have the addition of major problems of environmental degradation caused by land use intensification and increased roading transport, which are also driving water quality […]
Statistics New Zealand’s release today of Overseas Merchandise Trade for the month of December 2007 reveals the incredible statistic that dairy exports (milk powder, butter and cheese) rose 76.9% from the previous December to exceed $1 billion for a single month, for the first time ever.
Our third biggest export for the month of December (after […]
Population is always a troubling issue for green thinkers. Just as any ecology can become plagued by unsustainable growth of one species, too many humans appearing too fast could threaten the sustainability of our planet. So it was thought provoking to read George Monbiot’s latest article on the environmental impact of population growth:
If we accept […]
The news this morning is full of stories about the 3rd major political event for the week - a State of the Environment report to be released at lunchtime today is likely to be highly critical of the impact of our dairy industry on the environment. Radio New Zealand currently has a Morning Report debate […]