When the Haast highway builders passed through ancient Matai forest forty years ago, the trees were left standing close to the road. After all, some of them had already been there for 1000 years or more.
So that’s why Metiria is trying to find out why Transit currently felling 250 ancient podocarps along this scenic highway, […]
This video should get right up some people’s noses - it’s got the United Nations, Sting and polar bears!
This Friday at the Wellington Opera House, young Green activist and candidate number 11 on our party list, Gareth Hughes, is joining Metiria and Russel to launch the Green Party youth policy and the Green Party youth election campaign.
But after that, it is Friday night after all, he’ll be joining the Phoenix Foundation, Little Bushman, […]
Always helpful, I’ve found a new defence for Winston from the media’s attacks. He just needs to copy Peter Madsen who is threatening to sue a Manawatu journalist for saying his performance on Stars in Their Eyes was like ” rooster on nitrous oxide”. Madsen’s argument is that ‘he is a professional impersonator and the […]
I’m glad to see my post on the issue of vehicle fuel efficiency standards has provoked such interest. Here are a few answers to a few questions:
Kevyn, - my briefing on the $148m saved on power bills since the MEPs came in was an oral one but you could write to EECA and ask for […]
If you’re a fan of nature docos you’ll enjoy these video clips on The Ranger’s Blog, highlighting the cultural differences between America’s National Geographic and Britain’s BBC both discussing the same topic; a spider lying in wait to catch a bee for dinner.
The “unashamedly anthropomorphic” National Geographic:
The jumping spider packs a ton of skulking pouncing […]
“There is no use beating around the bush, this meeting has collapsed, members have simply not been able to bridge their differences,” the World Trade Organization’s Director-General Pascal Lamy told journalists.
And the reason being given for the collapse of this seven year long set of trade negotiaions is India and the USA’s failure to reach […]
If you have read Stuffed and Starved, the book that predicted current food crisis before it began, you’ll enjoy this Guardian interview with it’s author Raj Patel.
His analysis shows how communities around the planet have been disempowered by a system that appears to offer an abundance of cheap food, but in reality dictates unhealthy and […]