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Inspired by Succession to donate to Greenpeace in your Will?
Whether or not there’s a cousin Greg in your life, here’s how you can follow Uncle Ewan’s footsteps donate to Greenpeace in your Will
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Thoughts for young activists
As a young anti-war activist in the 1960s, I met older radical Ira Sandperl at the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, in California, which he had founded with pacifist…
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Burning rubbish creates toxic waste and fuels climate change
Burning rubbish to make electricity sounds too good to be true because there’s a big catch.
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Trees don’t move – but sand dunes sure as hell do
35 years ago my mum was on a mission to plant pohutukawa trees at Pakiri beach, a peaceful spot two hours north of Auckland. She dreamed of having her mokopuna…
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What happened at COP26? A global perspective, and what it means for New Zealand
If you want to know if something has succeeded, you should start by asking the people with the most to lose. In this case, that’s those who are already being…
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Milked the movie: How industrial dairy milks us all, and what you can do about it
Milked the movie, takes a look at industrial dairy farming in New Zealand and shows how it systematically ‘milks’ animals, consumers, farmers, rivers, the land and the climate.
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Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fuelled plastics production at a record rate – new research
Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil and gas criss-cross the…
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Never underestimate the power of showing up
For those of you who cannot bear to read another story about the senseless destruction of te taiao, stick with me, this story has a happy ending.
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NZ’s government plans to switch to a circular economy to cut waste and emissions, but it’s going around in the wrong circles
The New Zealand government is currently developing plans to address two crises — climate change and waste — and to embrace a circular economy. But it has no clear path for how to do this. The resulting muddle is watering down the potential of a circular economy to bring lasting change.
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Youth activists sailing to COP26 onboard the Rainbow Warrior ignore warnings from port authorities
Youth strikers from impacted communities onboard the iconic ship demand world leaders ‘stop failing’.