Oh yeah, SPEEDholes
Could making the surface of cars rough be a cheap and esay way to boost fuel efficiency, thereby saving oil and helping tackle […]
Environment
Today’s climate protest in Wgtn
Two protests today successfully highlighted the role of New Zealand’s agricutural industry and business community in contributing to climate change. The first protest […]
Those hard to find WIMPs
There have been some new results from the search for WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) at the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) in […]
Climate Direct Action
Text from John Darroch a couple of minutes ago: hey just hanging ten stories up the mfat building in welly protesting against fonterror […]
Sustainable living resources
I’m trying not to get too depressed about the lack of an outcome at Copenhagen. As one analyst put it – “Leaders came […]
Failing the future
So Copenhagen has ended in failure. I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed. As The Guardian reports: Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends […]
A knife edge and an open letter
As the final stages of diplomatic chaos play out in Copenhagen, and with at least the possibility of some truly significant goals emerging, […]
Words and deeds
Words: Prime Minister John Key has urged the world’s major economies to listen to the voices of vulnerable nations facing climate change. .. […]
Copenhagen violence
Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters Earlier in the year there was a lot of media attention on the police tactics at the G20 Summit in […]
Bullet dodged
Well, that could have been embarrassing. John Key on the world stage, along with leaders of other countries in what has been billed […]
The Climate Scoreboard
More details here.
Transmission Gully- $1bln white elephant
Here’s a prediction. Transmission Gully will never be built. There’s a reason that Labour kept pushing Transmission Gully off. The Benefit/Cost ratio is […]
Worth 1000 words
Cartoon by Nick Anderson.
Why deny: the bought priesthood
There are some very wealthy industries that make their money off burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases. It is in their financial interest […]
Scientific conspiracy on a global scale
In a recent post my good friend and fellow concern troll DPF covered the Associated Press review of the leaked “climategate” materials. The […]
Why deny: the useful idiots
According to myth (it seems), Lenin called socialists in the West ‘useful idiots’ – people whose ideological fervour saw them accidentally aid the […]
Sharples: ‘ETS short-sighted, that’s why we supported it’
I could hardly believe my ears when I heard Waatea News on RNZ this morning. Pita Sharples admitted that the Maori Party knew […]
US Style Cow Stalls – what aspiration!
In a year when New Zealand factory farming practices for pigs (and earlier for chickens) have been widely exposed and shocked the country, […]
Why deny: the lobby groups/polluters
This is the first in a three part series on the climate change denial industry. I’m trying to understand why there is such […]
Deserted cities
I think it is a pity that the currently dominant country / culture in the world, America, has had such a short history. […]
Deniers are traitors
Strongly worded piece by Chris Trotter this morning: In the war for nature, the deniers are traitors … The question of why war, […]
Key obstructs Copenhagen talks
Thanks to our dear Prime Minister John Key, New Zealand is being branded an international ‘fossil’ on climate change. Stuff.co.nz reports Prime Minister […]
Call of the week
Fitzsimons: If Barack Obama comes to Copenhagen saying ‘yes we can do much more’ will the Prime Minister say ‘no we can’t, but […]
This is climate change
Climate change has melted the sea ice where polar bears catch seals. Starving, they are turning to cannibalism. Here a male bear takes the remains […]
Yes he can
In America the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just ruled that greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of the American people”, […]
Players only love you when they’re playing
O’Sullivan“[Key] indicated that one of the reasons why he had been loath to sign up earlier for the Copenhagen event was because it […]
The Copenhagen editorial
Yesterday 56 newspapers in 45 countries published a “global editorial” – the same joint statement – most of them on their front page. […]
O Canada
Depressing reading in this piece by George Monbiot on Canada: So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation […]
What the government wants to dig up
[Post reproduced with permission from No Right Turn] This is a picture of the north-western part of Mount Aspiring National Park, which the […]
Key is going. Now who pays?
So John Key has finally dropped his veils* and is going to Copenhagen. Well, Rob Emmerson correctly predicted how the ineffectual Emissions Trading […]
Ethical meat on its way
Jon Stewart covers developments in the science around making meat without raising and killing an animal. Jon has a laugh of course but […]
Planet A – Saturday!
Tomorrow Saturday it’s the Planet A Concert and March (the concert to be webcast live): In Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, you’ll be able […]
Greens release Green New Deal pt 2
Anyone who thinks that our economic troubles are over because the economy grew 0.1% is delusional. And no-one seriously believes that we don’t […]
Tip Top pulling a Cadbury?
I was interested to read in the Herald on Friday that Tip Top is under fire for cutting the size of its 2 […]
Planet A – Concert & March
Mark your calendar, and turn out next Saturday for the Planet A Concert and March (the concert to be webcast live): In Auckland, Wellington and […]
The Key to change?
Will Key go to Copenhagen? Or rather, why wouldn’t he want to go? According to TVNZ tonight: At least 90 world leaders are […]