World Environment Day Archive

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    FREEZE! - by frog



    It is World Environment Day. Action on climate change is a big part of what the Green Party does every day, but to mark June 5, Sue Kedgley will be at the Freeze in Wellington and Metiria Turei will be Freezing in Dunedin…and yes that isn’t hard to do in the Deep South. The Freeze [...] read more
    June 5, 2009 5:39 am - 11 Comments
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    Two approaches to World Environment Day - by frog



    Sometimes I think we over intellectualize things.  The Green parliamentary office spent a bit of time and brain power over recent weeks trying to work out how to ensure the government didn’t dominate New Zealand’s role as host of World Environment Day with its greenwash.  We came up with some quite clever ideas.  Meanwhile, Winston [...] read more
    June 6, 2008 8:25 am - 25 Comments
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    Pachauri: ‘please read the science’ - by frog



    World Environment Day has bought the head of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri, to New Zealand.  Pachauri is moving the IPCC beyond stating the science in ways that have allowed climate change deniers to obfuscate and confuse the message.  He is now using much plainer language.  Famously, this now widely [...] read more
    June 5, 2008 8:34 am - 13 Comments
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    The PM’s Carbon emissions speech - by frog



    Right, I’m back from the Green Party conference.  (Oh, talking of which you should listen to Kiwi FM’s Wallace Chapman talking to Scoop’s Selwyn Manning on the Greens’ Conference over the weekend). Seems the one of the big news stories for the week will be World Environment Day.  The Prime Minister, gearing up for World [...] read more
    June 4, 2008 4:13 pm - 6 Comments
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    Helen Clark takes reusable bag to supermarket - by frog



    Lately the government and the National Party seem to have decided that ‘sustainability’ might be an election winner next year. So, here’s Helen Clark’s leap onto the bandwagon; she’s pledged to take reusable bags to the supermarket. Environment Minister, Trevor Mallard pledged to buy stuff with less packaging. And most importantly they are throwing out [...] read more
    December 5, 2007 11:09 am - 14 Comments