Yesterday Solid Energy was complaining that snails and associated protests had cost it millions of dollars. Today it is celebrating it’s greenness by talking about the snails it is saving and how it’s carbon emissions were less that its offsets last year (probably thanks in part to protests by the Save Happy Valley crew which […]
I wrote a couple weeks ago about the potential release of a live GE virus into New Zealand to cure horse flu, thinking there would be more details and discussion occurring on this issue soon thereafter. But things have gone eerily quiet. I know New Zealand’s Anti GE networks will be outraged that […]
Tax cuts. Cullen says his will be smaller but won’t negatively affect the economy or public services. English says his will be bigger but doesn’t want to play that up too much in case he gets caught in the chewing gum trap Cullen found him self in last election. Or worse, he could […]
Celsias examines the possibility that one of the world’s most popular foods, bananas, could become extinct. It seems that more than 300 varieties of bananas have slowly been whittled down by world markets to just one; the uniformly familiar yellow ones we see in our supermarkets which go by the name of Cavendish. Now the […]
I hear that Auckland’s Sky Tower will be turning its lights out this Saturday as part of the worldwide Earth Hour campaign. I wonder if Skycity will also be switching off the 24 hour 7 day a week pokie machines in its casino rooms? That seems like it would be a more significant […]
I’m a petless kind of urban frog. I’m not a big fan of cats, and I always feel a little sorry for big dogs in the big city. And, as you’d expect, I don’t have a lot of affinity for fish bowls and cages. But I know a lot of people do like […]