When will the image shatter?
October 30, 2008
World Wildlife Fund International has just published its Living Planet Report 2008, an exhaustive effort to quantify the ecological health of the planet and the strain we humans are placing on its biological capacity.
They’ve developed two key indices — a Living Planet Index and an Ecological Footprint — which are composites of extensive trend [...]
Read and heed
October 29, 2008
The HB Chamber of Commerce has done a commendable service by commissioning a quarterly series of economic trend reports on the region. The first of these was published this month. You can download it here.
Now, with regular analysis underway (via HB’s Economic Solutions Ltd.), the much bigger challenge is getting local decision-makers — especially those [...]
Breaking the 10% ceiling
October 28, 2008
Last week, one poll had the Greens pulling 8.8% of the national vote.
What might it require for the Greens to smash through the 10% glass ceiling?
Perhaps losing the word “Ban”!
NZ’s most-read political blogger, conservative David Farrar (Kiwiblog), claims that he has read every official policy pronouncement on the Greens’ website and has found 85 instances [...]
Sir Roger Douglas’ ACT – National on steroids
October 26, 2008
Sir Roger Douglas was “working” Hawke’s Bay recently on behalf of ACT, and BayBuzz had a chat with him and ACT’s Tukituki candidate, Duncan Lennox.
Douglas is #3 on the ACT list. Assuming Rodney Hide wins his Epsom electorate and ACT polls 2.5% or so nationally (they’re a bit shy of that percent as I write), [...]
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