Tomorrow the people of Aotearoa will go to the polls to decide the fate of the nation for the next three years and in some policy areas, beyond that. This campaign has been the closest in my memory and probably the dirtiest. It has been long and gruelling and very tiring. But [...]
I couldn’t think of a more apt description of Kevin.
For those of you how knew Kevin Smith, the first thing that you will remember is his delightful cynicysm. But the other thing you remember is a man with a heart and soul bigger than any you will ever meet.
Kevin Smith, current advisor to Chris [...]
Jeanette
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Was AGM day and I won’t go into that cause it was either a) boring business stuff or b) none of your business ;o) Was great to re-elect Rod and Jeanette, marking 10 years of their leadership was pretty exciting. They’re two of my biggest heroes and I damn glad [...]
The highlight of Saturday for me was the launch of the Green Student Support Policy and eCard campaign. I must say, I’m so impressed with it. The policy was rewritten for this election to reflect the progress in student support policy over the last few years. In 1999 and 2002 when the [...]
Here it is finally, my report from the AGM. I’ll do it in parts as it is a bit of a lengthy report, starting with Friday.
We had an awesome flight down, checking out the awesome scenery of the South Island. Thanks to the wonderful people at Origin Pacific I got to sit next [...]
OUTFALL1
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Today is World Oceans Day, when we can all celebrate the wonderful world that lives out of our sight beneath the level of the sea. It is also a time to acknowledge how little we, as humans, know about what lives beneath the waves.
Given that we know so little, today is [...]
WorldChanging has this extremely interesting story. So the heads of the 12 biggest companies in the United Kingdom can figure out that climate change is a) not bullshit b) something worth worrying about and c) something definitely worth planning around and they’re calling on the Government to do something about it! I wonder [...]
So Forest and Bird like it. Business NZ don’t. Hardly any surprises there.
What’s most interesting is the silent response from the government. This can only be read as a good thing. Usually if a party puts out a policy, you get one of two responses.
1. Condemnation. This almost always [...]
Green Party Energy Policy launch
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I went to the launch of the Green Party energy launch today. You can read a summary of it here.
Got some damn smart stuff in it, especially the commitment to developing the solar industry with a view towards half a million solar panels for homes across Aotearoa. [...]
It was out of it last week, I was out on the street helping with the Trans-Tasman Green campaign to lobby the Japanese to pull their heads in over their push to increase their ’scientific’ whaling take. And all these people told me that ‘Save The Whales’ was such an old slogan and we [...]
OK so on Friday night I went to the Green Room 004: Hope CD release party at Indigo. It was amazing!
The presales sold out the morning before so there were people lining up outside the venue an hour before the doors opened. And once the door sales went there was still a line [...]
So Brazil just had the second highest year of rainforest deforestation so the Green Party representatives resigned in disgust.
Repra-fuckin-zent
The Herald is reporting a story about the collapse of the war on drugs in Columbia. Well duh, anyone who has spent 10 minutes learning about the corrupt situation in Columbia would know that there are some serious issues that need dealing with between the government and the drug cartels before any ‘war on [...]
If there’s going to be a law against anything it should be against BOTH of your heaters crapping out at the beginning of winter. (It was fun, there was sparks!)
No, can’t ban that, it would be silly.
So instead let’s take a harm reduction approach to keeping kakariki warm.
I need a new heater, but I [...]
I must have picked up some new readers recently as the stats are picking up nicely. So for you newbies, read WorldChanging now and every day from now on. If you’re a greeny hippy you’ll love it and if you’re not you might be able to pull your head out your ass for [...]
The Green Party and LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa have collaborated yet again on the fourth and final Green Room album, Green Room 004: Hope. And it rocks.
I managed to get my hands on a pre-release version and have been listening to it non-stop. Especially since it has my favourite song of all time (and [...]
Sorry for quietness at my end, recovered from injury, now have the flu *sigh*
OK but I was walking through town earlier and I saw something that really raised my ire. There’s a new advertising service in Wellington (well, not sure how new) called AdonWheels and it makes me so angry.
As a society, we are [...]
I posted last month about Nike doing the ‘look we’re sustainable!’ thing. And I read through frogblog that Salient pitted the left against the right on boycotting product from sweatshops. Good to see that the questions are being asked in more and more public forums.
But it’s not good enough to say ‘don’t buy [...]
World Changing has a story about solar powered wallpaper. That’s seriously cool.
Wonder if it comes in pink?
The Green’s new blog frogblog has gone live today.
Frog’s release below:
Hopping around the corridors of power
Well, I have to say that the Green Parliamentary Office is much more fun when all the MPs aren’t here.
I’ve finally worked out how to type with my pads, so now I can hop into my self-appointed role as the [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
