The Observatory cordially invites you to the above free public event, koha welcome. Please feel free to circulate/pass this invitation to others whom you feel might be interested, attached is a poster should you wish to use it. The event begins at 6pm, but seated by 5:50 please. 111 Seaview … [Read more...]
Last week Liz Yeaman on Electric Transport
We started the year with a ripper of a presentation by Liz Yeaman about electric buses. Liz spoke for her entire address without notes and relied only on her overheads, which were excellent. Here is the video of her address https://youtu.be/MBwsz0YDtwI thanks to Aaron Campbell. This address … [Read more...]
Tragedy of the commons
Axel Wilke writes... In the first half of the 19th century, some of the meadows used by English farmers to graze their cows turned brown. The grass was gone. It wasn’t that the soil was less fertile or that there was less rain than elsewhere. What differentiated the green and brown meadows was … [Read more...]
My life expressed in CO2
This tattoo disturbed me – what does it mean? Axel Wilke Writes... Earlier this year, I felt deep discomfort sitting next to a woman with a tattoo depicting some numbers. It reminded me of Hitler-Germany, when Jews had their prisoner ID tattooed when they went to a concentration camp. So I had to … [Read more...]
Do companies have a responsibility to Manage Climate Change risks?
Chapman Tripp were asked to come up with a legal opinion: “To what extent (if at all) are New Zealand company directors and managed scheme providers permitted or required to take account of climate change considerations in their decision-making?” Their Conclusion included this: "We … [Read more...]
Why Politicians and Activists Need each other
Rosemary Neave writes: Garry Moore has often said politics is the art of being able to count to 50%+1. If we have a democratically representative Council or Government, then it is unlikely all will agree. Mostly politicians are forced to make small steps rather than take giant leaps, … [Read more...]
New wind farm in Palmy
The Turitea wind farm near Palmerston North was in the news this week for its groundbreaking ceremony. Mercury is doing the project, with $256 million being invested in stage 1 to build 33 turbines. They have consent for 60 turbines at this site and expect to generate 470 gigawatt hours (GWh) per … [Read more...]
During the election campaign one Mayoral Candidate really worried me
I sat as an MC at a candidate meeting in Edgeware and wondered if one of the candidates had fallen off this planet. He was a climate change denier. He thrust some documents at me which proved that he was correct. I worry about Climate Change deniers. How can they say that 95% of the world’s … [Read more...]
Greta
I have really enjoyed that us stale pale males have been beaten up by many columnists around the world when opinion leaders, like Mike Hosking and Duncan Garner, have written criticising Greta Thunberg, and not the message she is warning us about. I thought this article was … [Read more...]
Last Week – strike4climate
Last week it was inspiring to listen to three young people who are leaders in the school strike campaign. It was sobering for me to realise that the inspiring and eloquent young woman who was one of the speakers was 53 years younger than me… Here’s the video of the speakers at last week’s … [Read more...]
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