Written By: - Date published: 6:08 pm, November 17th, 2016 - 63 comments
Damien O’Connor and Denise Roche have taken it to Nick Smith in the House today over the government’s plan to seal Pike River mine forever.
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, November 17th, 2016 - 40 comments
As 2016 lines up for its place in the record books – what if every year from now is the hottest year ever?
Written By: - Date published: 9:16 am, November 16th, 2016 - 16 comments
Ngai Tahu should be congratulated for opening up Takahanga Marae to the victims of the Kaikoura earthquake and for providing for and looking after them.
Written By: - Date published: 6:34 am, November 16th, 2016 - 75 comments
For discussing the quakes and the aftermath. Current updates. Includes comments from Geonet Director Dr Ken Gledhill.
Written By: - Date published: 9:46 pm, November 15th, 2016 - 64 comments
“Seismic blasting, every 10 seconds, 24hrs a day from now until next May” Time to step up again and protect our environment.
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, November 15th, 2016 - 193 comments
Andrew Little on the Kaikoura Earthquakes.
Written By: - Date published: 10:10 am, November 15th, 2016 - 23 comments
Update: Chaos in Wellington – check the news…
It’s times like this you appreciate our emergency response systems. Huge thanks to everyone who has worked / is working to keep others safe, supplied, informed.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, November 15th, 2016 - 22 comments
“Now six years later, the Government is moving to seal the mine. They are literally putting hundreds of tonnes of concrete between us and our boys. Between the whole world and whatever evidence of what happened is down there.”
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 am, November 14th, 2016 - 115 comments
A night of quakes.
Beach and shore warning (original major Tsunami warning is over).
Wellington recommends avoid CBD today (all trains cancelled).
Scholarship exams today are postponed, NCEA exams proceeding where possible – official link.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
Bollocks. It was never going to be.
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, November 13th, 2016 - 23 comments
What exactly happened at Pike River? The families of the 29 men who died don’t know, and as Solid Energy moves to seal the mine forever, they demand justice.
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
Written By: - Date published: 12:34 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 17 comments
The Pike River families have decided to take a stand and are occupying the road to the mine to ensure it cannot be closed, sealing up the evidence of what happened and the bodies of their loved ones forever.
Written By: - Date published: 12:23 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 13 comments
Change happens at the intersection of the edge and the mainstream.
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, November 12th, 2016 - 2 comments
Greenpeace on Auckland Council joining others around the country in opposing deep sea oil drilling.
Written By: - Date published: 7:19 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 34 comments
The Pike River families will be protesting tomorrow to get their men out of the mine that killed them.
Written By: - Date published: 8:20 am, November 11th, 2016 - 113 comments
What all good progressives should be doing in these POTUS Trump days.
Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, November 10th, 2016 - 376 comments
Some thoughts on the US Presidential result.
Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, November 9th, 2016 - 19 comments
A good day to dump bad news. Looks like RMA changes are back on agenda, courtesy of the Maori Party.
Written By: - Date published: 7:45 am, November 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest, this week looking at untooling and letting nature do the work.
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, November 5th, 2016 - 13 comments
The Paris agreement is now in force. NZ is committed to reducing its emissions. What, specifically, is this governments plan for doing so? How does support for continued coal mining and oil exploration, the use of phony carbon credits and the like, fit in with reducing emissions?
Written By: - Date published: 3:27 pm, November 3rd, 2016 - 21 comments
The Standing Rock water protection movement continues in the face of increasing state violence.
Written By: - Date published: 11:06 am, November 2nd, 2016 - 9 comments
A useful report from the Morgan Foundation: “…the Government has a plan to cook the books to cover up our growing greenhouse gas emissions.”
Written By: - Date published: 11:45 am, October 31st, 2016 - 12 comments
A selection of tweets from this morning. You may detect a theme.
Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, October 30th, 2016 - 58 comments
Andrew Little has just announced that Labour in Government will accelerate the implementation of light rail in the Auckland Istmus.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, October 30th, 2016 - 12 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, October 29th, 2016 - 6 comments
Credit where it is due for the success of the Ross Sea marine reserve. Now how about action where it is needed in our own waters?
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, October 29th, 2016 - 71 comments
The loss of four lives at the Dreamworld fun park in the Gold Coast suggests that the corporate greed is good mantra is not working as well as we should expect.
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 am, October 27th, 2016 - 29 comments
Why has Housing NZ ignored repeated advice and misused meth tests to evict tenants? RNZ: “Drug Foundation executive director Ross Bell said Housing New Zealand had caused a huge amount of harm by knowingly misusing the guidelines.”
Written By: - Date published: 9:26 am, October 26th, 2016 - 25 comments
No, not in NZ, of course. With bonus notes on a “grotesque folly”.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 58 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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