The global green change needed is desperately urgent. Paradoxically, the fastest and best way to achieve it locally might be more tortoise than hare
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Two hard constraints: climate science, and clean coal
Climate scientist James Hansen and Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder debate how to secure the future of coal, New Zealand, and the world
Read MoreSmall is beautiful: economy of resources, and the politics of enough
Economy, by definition, means prudently managing resources, yet in practice growth consumes them, unsustainably. We need a new narrative, say the Greens, that decouples progress from growth: this might be a myth and it is a gamble, but so is growth
Read MoreThoughts on Green growth, from a gardener
Among the many things people don’t get about the Greens and the green movement is -- it’s organic. This is not just a nice conceit. Greens live and breathe above and below ground, which makes them resilient
Read MoreThe last and least loveliest: lignite
When global crude oil sources are ranked and graphed by size and production cost, lignite coal is among the biggest, the most expensive, and the last one on the list. Lignite and Solid Energy need peak oil; it’s a lifeline for them, not a threat
Climate carbon negotiations: a black hole, and a new idea
If there is no post-Kyoto climate deal, of the kind attempted at Copenhagen, few if any will care. Jeanette Fitzsimons, back in the country and back at work, tells Pundit why she doubts Kyoto and the ETS can help us. She wants to start again
Read MoreThe good oil, on two biofuel bills
New Zealand’s biofuel market is, apparently, a model of sustainability and transparency; it might be our route to fuel independence. Fitzsimons’ Bill to regulate it looks likely to be rejected
Read MoreFitzsimons' valedictory, and Values
Jeanette Fitzsimons’ valedictory speech in Parliament today ends a political era. Will it be the death of the Greens, or their coming of age?
Read MoreJeanette Fitzsimons: our Next glamour girl
Jeanette Fitzsimons, as you’ve never seen her, glams it up on Next magazine’s February cover
Read MoreGreens break up with Nats: government and media response
Pundit’s scoop this week got a muted response, from both ministers and the media
Read MoreIdeology destroys energy efficiency
The former Greens co-leader questions why, given its "retrograde vision" for energy efficiency, the National Government wanted to collaborate with the Greens in the first place
Read MoreAfter the honeymoon, divorce: Greens break up with National
The Greens have walked away from part of their working arrangement with the government. Jeanette Fitzsimons revealed exclusively to Pundit a relationship breakdown in the energy efficiency and conservation portfolio
Read MoreThe Greens: leading from behind
“Where are the Greens?” chorus the political pundits. Well, they’re where they’ve always been, doing what they’ve always done—but there’s news about their alliance with the government
Read MoreEmissions trading: learn to count, and look before you leap
Emissions trading just got interesting, in ways the government probably didn’t intend. They’ve mastered the first lesson, but maybe not the second
Read MoreBiofuels revisited
Jeanette Fitzsimons’ Sustainable Biofuel Bill has been drawn from the Member’s ballot. It’s sustainable, all right—defying repeal—and the first real test of this Government’s green credentials
Read MoreIt's not easy being Green
Green is the new black, but if the Green Party wants to attract mainstream voters it must confront its daggy image and cliquey mentality
Read MoreNational News Brief Tuesday, February 24
Internet publishers win a stall on Section 92a; medical graduates paid extra to work in rural areas; hospital blunders on the rise; NZ sharemarket hits five-year low; food miles debate simmers down; Bradford and Turei to duke it out for Greens co-leadership
Read MoreGenerational change: a question of language
An important dimension underpinning generation change is political language. Jon Johansson analyses both main party leader's opening addresses and finds scant evidence of any new paradigm emerging.
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