Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has a list of excuses for the Amazon fires that threaten ‘the lungs of the world’… and they won’t be unfamiliar to those debating the environment here in New Zealand
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Can we save the planet without a revolution?
The short answer is no; the long answer requires an explanation of what form that revolution will take.
Read MoreWhat drought really means for New Zealand
As we head into another drier-than-normal season, New Zealand needs to put more thought into water management
Read MoreA divided country?
The election demonstrated deep divisions. Will the next three years make them worse or help heal the rift? And where will the pressure points be?
Read MoreEconomy v Environment: Is fewer cows really the answer?
There's plenty of evidence that more farm production could actually help, not harm, efforts to protect the environment
Read MoreThe New Zealand story: 100% pooer!
In 2012, National Ministers’ environment choices left us 100% poorer - or pooer, in the case of our impure, faecally-contaminated rivers
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Tuesday September 20
Obama to release $3 trillion deficit-reduction plan; Obama plan includes $1.5 trillion in tax increases, which Republicans expected to oppose; China closes solar panel factory that has been focus of anti-pollution demonstrations; South Korea and US working on joint response to small-scale attacks from North Korea; gunmen kill 36 in a Burundi bar; Farc rebels in Colombia attack police station; and more
Read MoreViva la vida
At new year, in spring time, and on Anzac Day, my calendar clocks another year, and I resolve to start again, again. This blog is not immune to it: it’s time for a change, because we know everything we need to, about National’s green blues
Read MoreImagining a green manifesto
The Greens’ policy platform needs as much rebuilding as any other party’s, to make it strong and sustainable
Read MoreWould a poll of any other words smell as sweet?
A dinner-time phone call from a Tory pollster sparks some thoughts about the wording of political questions and the biases that appear between the words
Read MoreFull of high sentence, but a bit obtuse: 2010, in review
2010 was all about one question: how, exactly, does one balance economic opportunities with environmental responsibilities? It was a 'politic, cautious' year
Read MoreKilling sacred cows
Vegetarians and vegans have taken the moral high ground, but think again - in a fossil-fuel challenged world, animals need to be part of the food chain.
Read MoreSo much rubbish: a story in search of some facts
Our politicians seem incapable of giving us straight facts on the serious matter of waste reduction. If only MPs would talk more rubbish...
Read MoreThe first 100 days – a list without a strategy
The story of the government's first hundred days is one of confidence over strategy and a hail Mary attitude that could cost us in the long run
Read MoreDear John: the environment IS the economy
The environmental implications of the government's first 100 days are worrying, but not for the obvious reasons
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