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Cycling to Southland — Epilogue - by Julie Anne Genter
This is how the story ends. Yesterday I took apart my bike and crammed it into the small rental car of a friend attending the festival. We drove back to Dunedin airport, where incredibly helpful people gave us materials to pack up the bike. Upon arrival in Wellington, I unpacked it, put it back together [...] read moreJanuary 24, 2012 3:37 pm - 22 Comments -
Restoring the Kaipara Harbour - by David Clendon
I was really inspired when taking part in a hui at Puatahi Marae on Sunday, an open day for the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group. The group’s title is a mouthful, but there is nothing complicated about the vision they share, which is to restore the Kaipara, its mauri, its quality and its ecosystems back to what [...] read moreApril 18, 2011 5:58 pm - 1 Comment -
Farm Weka in order to save them? - by frog
An enterprising farmer, Roger Beattie, is proposing that he should be allowed to farm Weka (and presumably Kiwi, etc), for sale to be eaten. Apparently “weka [were] delicious, and made chicken look bland and greasy in comparison.” That’s all well and good. Maybe they do taste good and maybe there would be a market for [...] read moreFebruary 5, 2010 1:00 pm - 51 Comments -
The brand vs battery cows - by Russel Norman
This is how we present our butter to the world: “Only our cows are free to roam all day long. Anchor – the free range butter company”. And this is cubicle factory dairy production – the battery cow. Or this: Cognitive dissonance anyone? read moreDecember 9, 2009 7:56 pm - 62 Comments -
Herd homes vs cubicles like home vs prison - by Jeanette Fitzsimons
Have you ever felt that after a long day inside a building you just have to get out and feel the sun and breathe some air? I guess not being able to do that is one of the punishments the prison system imposes on offenders. But even they get an hour or so out in [...] read moreDecember 9, 2009 3:35 pm - 11 Comments -
Think our native forests were safe? Think again. - by frog
“Agricultural intensification over the past 10 years has led to the highest rate of native vegetation loss since European colonisation.” Landcare Research Annual Report read moreNovember 2, 2009 11:29 am - 18 Comments -
Love Wild Rivers? Give them your support - by frog
Cool. Today a new campaign has been launched for one of New Zealand’s most iconic features – our Wild Rivers. It’s great to see diverse groups – tree-huggers, deer-stalkers, bird-watchers, knobbly-kneed trampers, sharp-edged climbers, risky rafters, kool-kat kayakers, and angelic anglers – representing “over 100,000 New Zealanders” and united in seeking to protect wild rivers [...] read moreOctober 28, 2009 12:37 pm - 3 Comments -
ETS is sure to spur growth – but what kind? - by Jeanette Fitzsimons
Now here’s a great idea for economic development. Extract lignite, the lowest quality coal, very wet and of low calorific value. Add copious water pollution, coal seam methane and land disturbance from open cast mining. read moreOctober 1, 2009 6:45 am - 20 Comments -
Mohaka needs you! - by frog
The Dompost on Saturday reported that a debate about landuse and water quality is deepening in the Hawkes Bay. The Mohaka River has a Water Conservation Order on it. However its quality is declining. One tributary comes from the volcanic plateau where land has been converted from forests to industrial-sized dairy farms. read moreSeptember 21, 2009 3:30 pm - 11 Comments -
World Bank Goes Green? - by Catherine Delahunty
Sometimes something really good happens. The World Bank has withdrawn funding for the palm oil sector including the Wilmar company that supplies [PDF] palm kernel to Fonterra. The World Bank is not satisfied that the palm plantations they loaned to in parts of the developing world met acceptable standards for sustainability. Congratulations to the Forest [...] read moreSeptember 14, 2009 12:22 pm - 77 Comments -
Sober Sunday reading - by frog
Kim Knight at the Sunday Star Times provides welcome investigative journalism today in a story and major feature on the origin of the massive amount of palm kernel expeller (PKE) that New Zealand imports for supplementary feed on dairy farms. She writes: It looks like Armageddon. It’s just a palm plantation. Palm oil is a [...] read moreAugust 23, 2009 10:32 am - 57 Comments -
River-As-Drain No Longer Acceptable, or Exceptional - by Catherine Delahunty
The Kawerau pulp and paper mill should not be granted consents to pollute the Tarawera River — known locally as “The Black Drain” — for another thirty-five years. I spoke yesterday at the hearings in Whakatane for consents to discharge to air and water from the pulp mill. The pulp mill, owned by companies Carter [...] read moreAugust 12, 2009 10:11 am - 14 Comments -
Dairy pollution in a protected Wild River - by frog
The Fishing News reported last year that: The Mohaka River has to be the jewel in the crown of Hawkes Bay trout fisheries, yet the upper reaches of this magnificent river are in decline due mainly to intense dairy farming and the subsequent effluent run-off. One of its tributaries is the Taharua River, into which [...] read moreAugust 4, 2009 7:30 am - 14 Comments -
Recommended Sunday listening - by frog
Some great listening and viewing this morning on NZ environmental issues. Podcasts and on-demand TV means those who slept in haven’t missed out – so enjoy. RadioNZ’s Insight doco at 8am was on carbon offsetting. Reporter Ian Telfer narrated a well-rounded look at the benefits and risks inherent in the largely-unregulated voluntary carbon market. Includes [...] read moreJuly 26, 2009 12:15 pm - 23 Comments -
Feds’ selective hearing deafening - by frog
Federated Farmers seemed a tad defensive yesterday. Their press release “Environmentalists ‘silence deafening’ on dirty cities” said: Federated Farmers believes the hypocrisy of environmental lobbyists has been revealed by their silence on urban pollution. “Yesterday, farmers learned that raw sewerage and heavy metals are being pumped into Wellington Harbour. But environmentalists like ‘hook and bullet’ [...] read moreJuly 24, 2009 12:35 pm - 11 Comments -
Wild irony in fish advert - by frog
This advert is on prominent display at Wellington airport. It’s similar to one I noted last year. The Talley boys’ colourful political views are quite well known, and they are hardly the poster-boys for sustainable wild fishing. For example, this insightful analogy for bottom-trawling – a practice that has caused UK supermarket Waitrose to destock [...] read moreJuly 22, 2009 7:00 am - 20 Comments -
Feds’ selective with the science on water quality - by frog
Here’s one that left me speechless with incredulity… Fed Farmers Dairy chairman Lachlan McKenzie addressed the organisation’s AGM yesterday and made some quite ridiculous and irresponsible comments on the progress that farmers have made in cleaning up waterways. This time last year, Fish and Game New Zealand was calling on the government to regulate production [...] read moreJuly 2, 2009 1:35 pm - 9 Comments -
NIWA study backs Green New Deal planting & fencing - by frog
Yesterday, Kevin Hague MP blogged on the voluntary efforts to improve water quality and water-way ecology in the Aorere catchment. And, the Greens continue to promote a Green New Deal stimulus measure to spread fencing and planting across the country, to create jobs and restore waterways at the same time. Today, the National Institute of [...] read moreJune 30, 2009 12:41 pm - No Comments
