What if all New Zealanders had enough to live on?
Rather than economics, can we talk about the values that underlie how we manage the country?
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What if saving the world meant life was tasty, beautiful and just long enough?
The nasty, brutish and short meme is a failure of the imagination. We can have less and still live good lives.
Women’s Space
A dedicated space on The Standard for women’s debate, and introducing the new feminist online space of Women’s Liberation Aotearoa.
“We have to talk about sex. It’s important”
British philosophy professor Kathleen Stock being interviewed by Redline’s Daphna Whitmore on gender critical feminism and the sex/gender wars. Also, why being able to debate matters.
Why aren’t Labour acting on the housing crisis?
Bernard Hickey calls Labour’s inaction a scandal, and it’s hard to disagree.
Keep the faith, deep greenies
For those that understand the cyclical, interconnected nature of reality and why growth is inherently limited in the physical world, kia kaha, we’re making headway.
Why we debate
Explorations in debate culture, how to argue well, and what we do on The Standard.
Women’s Day
A dedicated space on The Standard for women’s debate.
If a thousand baby flamingos die in the desert does anyone hear them howl?
Farmers aren’t the problem here, they’re the mirror New Zealand is holding up to itself. We say we want change, despite the evidence.
Climate transition transport and the rural road tumbleweeds
Beyond the cycle/car wars.
The Public Service pay freeze
Mindboggling.
Regenerative agriculture and climate solutions
Research is now showing the advantages of regenerative agriculture. Are we wise enough to make best use of them?
Sustainability and learning from forest gardening
The Guytons’ 25 year old food forest in Riverton is a showcase of sustainability practice and knowledge.
Government announces plan to help first-home buyers maintain the housing crisis
Labour disappoints again. Individual investment rights trump collective responsibility for people having homes.
Women and male violence
Sarah Everard’s death has been a touchpaper that has ignited the ever present anger in women at having to live in a world that is fundamentally unsafe for us simply on the basis of our sex.
UBI experiment success
A newly published report in the United States on a two year UBI trial shows remarkable results. Is such a trial possible in New Zealand?
The unlucky New Zealand
The first New Zealand study to look at the effects of food hardship on pre-schoolers’ nutrition has found that nearly half of families struggle to access healthy food in their child’s first year of life.
Having a say on how NZ transitions to a post-carbon society
Now is the time for people power. The government is about to ask us what we think about New Zealand’s plan on climate action.
UPDATED with links to the report and media analysis.
What do you want our government to achieve on climate action in their first 100 days?
“We want our government to listen to us as youth and as New Zealanders. Our house is on fire, and soon, all that we know will be too”
School Strike 4 Climate’s rally on Tuesday will present demands to the government on what action needs to be taken now.
Inauguration Day
According to the constitution of the United States, a president’s four-year term “shall end at noon on the 20th day of January”. On Wednesday, the end of Donald Trump’s presidency will see Joe Biden assume the office in the enduring inauguration ceremony at the US Capitol.
-The Guardian
“You can’t vote that problem away”
Alexandria Oacasio-Cortez burns in the aftermath of the Capitol attacks, and the left in New Zealand seems content to ridicule our own people radicalising to the alt-right.
Climate news and personal actions
2021, the climate emergency is still an emergency. Personal action is not sufficient but it’s still necessary.
Show me the climate action New Zealand
The Prime Minister is talking about demonstrating a plan for action, but as we move into 2021 we need to settle back into grappling with the urgency of the climate crisis.
How can NZ incomes be lifted to match housing costs?
Not a vague let’s raise wages and benefits explanation, but an in-depth, number crunching, evidence-driven explanation. Where is it?
What could possibly go right?
Bridging the gap between the people who are involved in proactive, regenerative responses to the climate, ecological and social crises, and those who don’t know this is happening, feel overwhelmed, and don’t know what to do.
Climate emergency framing
Climate goals explained.
Being real about the climate emergency
Green tech, negative emissions and carbon capture and storage won’t save us, but we have other options.
Sneak preview of a neoliberal UBI
Giving migrant workers access to insufficient welfare is a financial coercion tool of right wing and centrist economics.
Time’s up Labour
It’s not possible to resolve New Zealand’s housing and poverty crises from within a neoliberal frame. Change is going to have to be driven from outside of parliament.
Resiliency politics
With news of more global stressors next year, the stories we tell right now are critical to how we build resiliency. Let’s make sure they are good ones.
Powerdown part two
Christchurch transition engineer Susan Krumdieck lays out the realities of the various crises we are facing, and why green tech won’t save us. What can we do instead?
Covid and contact tracing
News of a new community case in Auckland, and the need for us all to be taking precautions and keeping track of our movements and contacts.
This is how you do it America
Day four of the US election (general discussion thread).
The Green Party’s decision on government
Which way are the Greens going to jump?
A bit about how The Standard works
Mostly about moderation.
Show us the plan Labour
Labour want to govern based in stability for all New Zealanders, but how does that work when your grand narrative has massive plot holes around ending poverty?