December 30, 2009
10 Years Ago By Andrew Frame Ten years ago millions of people were getting ready. Some were stocking up on canned goods, survival equipment and looking for the nearest bunker to hole up in for when the millennium bug struck and wiped out civilization as we knew it. Many more were preparing to “party like [...]
December 27, 2009
Hastings Council’s Christmas present to Clive residents has been to shut down the new non-functioning Hastings domestic sewage treatment plant! In an announcement timed to arrive Christmas eve, and sent only to nearby residents and the handful of citizens who have previously formally submitted on sewage plant issues, the Council indicated the plant would be [...]
December 26, 2009
Here’s an environmental message “published” by Heather Martin at Tauroa Farm. If you’d like to view it live, it’s best seen from Te Mata Peak (only for a few more days), along the final stretch of road between the Gallipoli pine and the summit viewing platform. Best not to look while driving! For you gardeners [...]
December 24, 2009
Twelve Days of Christmas By Andrew Frame This week’s column is actually bought to you by my lovely wife. I’m just the scribe this time. Last year, Beloved came upon the idea of celebrating the “Twelve Days of Christmas” differently. For each day she made a meal based on the gift that is given on [...]
December 22, 2009
If this is not a moment of truth for New Zealand’s stewardship of its spectacular natural landscapes, what is?! At risk is 32,000 hectares of Mackenzie Country tussock grasslands … under consideration for dairy farming of the worst kind, and other agricultural conversion. Gary Taylor of the Environmental Defence Society puts the case splendidly in [...]
December 21, 2009
What’s all the fuss about? Here, for policy groupies, is the actual agreement (only 12 paragraphs). And for the rest of us, here’s the outstanding BBC reportage. If you think climate change is a serious threat to the environmental health of the planet, to our capacity to produce 70% more food for 9 billion people [...]
December 18, 2009
Havelock North’s Louis Chambers, a law student at Otago, is a member of the New Zealand Youth Delegation to the Copenhagen climate negotiations. As the conference ends, I thought you might be interested in his observations … “This morning I was sitting in Copenhagen when New Zealand’s name popped up in the most unexpected and [...]
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