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Living here as if it were forever: In memory of Ans Westra
Ans Westra died last month. She was a New Zealand thinker who used photography to ask us questions about our society. She was most well known for her photography of…
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The fossil fuel industry is inherently patriarchal and criminal
Today is International Women’s Day. Every year, fossil fuel companies exploit this day to advertise their career options for women, call out the gender gap in science and engineering, and…
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Why Fonterra was targeted by the climate strike
On Friday thousands of us around Aotearoa, and around the world, marched for climate action and climate justice.
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The parallel Climate Wars in Australia and New Zealand
We live in the era of the Climate Wars. On one side are the big polluting industries – oil, coal, gas, meat and dairy – fighting tooth and nail to…
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How we stopped the Biofuels Obligation | Guest post
Jake Roos, from the Don’t Burn Our Future campaign, describes how they helped change Government policy with people power.
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Pulling the rug from under citizens advice | Guest post
Auckland Council's budget review is currently threatening the survival of the Auckland Citizens Advice Bureau.
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The ten billion dollar lie at the heart of the New Zealand Government’s climate policy
The New Zealand Government has made a big promise on the international stage to cut New Zealand's emissions by a 147 million tonnes over the decade of the 2020s. But the truth is that
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Murder in the Pacific: the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and what happened next
A new BBC documentary ‘Murder in the Pacific’ recounts the 1985 bombing of Greenpeace’s ship, the Rainbow Warrior.
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The new climate denial: adaptation over mitigation
The night Cyclone Gabrielle hit my coastal village of Piha was, frankly, terrifying, as it was for so many around the motu. I measured more than 400mm in my back…
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Global Climate Strike: Why I’ll be there
Over my lifetime emissions have only increased and my individual actions feel like a mere drop in the bucket.