So many good initiatives that demonstrate that sustainability and community resiliency are intertwined. The sheer numbers of people involved now is heartening at a time when we are inundated with what is going wrong.
We’ve never had so much choice in what we can do to effect good change. We know the problems, now is the time to put our attention to the solutions, what is already working. and then get on with it.
New Zealand National Statement at COP27, and the call for all of us to act.
It is really quite something to be watching in real time, the implosion of twitter at the hands of Elon Musk.
Groundswell want degenerative agriculture.
Don’t give up. Don’t retrench into reactionary blocking politics. We have more choices for action and transition, and creating regenerative and sustainable systems, than ever before.
Van Gogh and Picasso as climate action targets. Destroying beauty is an act of self harm. On one level it’s wrong, but when we are desperate, it’s also an act of power.
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Urs Signer is standing for the Taranaki Regional Council, and is speaking a lot of sense about working with farmers, iwi and greenies for a Just Transition.
Tāme Iti’s pitch perfect, political performance art sets activist hearts aflutter.
This good news bodes well.
Environment Southland gives the ok for intensive farming on the edge of Fiordland National Park. Everyday there’s more news of disastrous decisions being made by people in power. The local body elections in the next month give us one easy and straightforward way to change that.
If we keep doing what we are doing (not acting on climate), then at some point there will just be too many of these events to keep up with. But we still have time to limit the damage and transition society.
A new Ipsos poll has some good news.
Labour announced earlier in the year that it would give a $350 cash transfer to all New Zealanders earning less than $70,000.
Except beneficiaries.
The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a damning review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.
Everything we do matters. Stories of hope and renewal.
The tension in the Green Party is between pragmatism and the need for urgent system change.
For the public, there’s no need to panic. Dissent is valuable and healthy in politics. It sits alongside trusting that the Greens know how to manage their internal processes even if the public at large doesn’t understand them well.
The UK government is warning of an extreme heatwave coming next week and asking people to prepare. This is the beginning stage of climate collapse and it has the potential to get much worse. But it’s not too late to prevent the worst – choosing proactive pathways right now empowers us to make the changes needed.
We have abortion rights by the grace of men.
Prince Louis and the perfect tweet.
Quick quiz on which New Zealand politicians led well on climate action in the past 15 years. Which New Zealand town is in a climate emergency today? And how our focus and voting matters if we want to avert climate disaster.
What if instead of waiting for a new left wing party to arise, the left worked with the three progressive parties we already have in parliament?
Budget Day, where our centre left neoliberal government straddles the line between compassion and BAU. Given the pressures of climate, the pandemic and global instability, what are the real alternatives?
It’s the question that obsesses me, how to cultivate a deep cultural longing for a post-carbon, more just, more equal world?
– Transitions Town pioneer Rob Hopkins
what kind of climate action do we want?
The climate crisis is no longer something that’s happening to someone else, somewhere else, at some point in the future. It’s happening to us. It’s happening here. It’s happening now. – James Shaw
Go you beautiful people!
This is a medical scandal affecting children and teens, and the left is still largely in denial of it.
It’s 2032, and we’re looking back at a decade of oil, climate and economic crisis, and how one city found a way through.
What would our society, communities and lives look like in New Zealand if we weren’t so reliant on fossil fuels?
It’s time to act as if our lives depend on it.
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The Green Party has published a reasonable plan to make renting more affordable for low income New Zealanders. There’s nothing extreme-communist-scary here, it’s well within the values of the NZ electorate.
That IPCC report telling it like it is. Ball is in our court.
