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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 8:20 am – Posted by Helen | 3 Comments
Christmas can be a real blast, but it can also be hell on the planet. There are the tonnes of wrapping paper dumped in landfills (or worse), countless food miles clocked up and greenhouse gases emitted, and a whole tonne of plastic junk gifts that you’ll hide in the back of the cupboard. Here’s a wee list I have compiled of ways you can go green this Christmas.
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 9:09 am – Posted by Helen | 9 Comments
Well, well, well, as I predicted in my pre-election blog (OK, so it was hardly long odds or a wild bet) we have a new government. The question is now, what’s in it for conservation?
At the moment, we’re waiting to see who gets the ministerial posts of most interest to us here at Forest & Bird: Conservation, Environment, Climate Change (if they have a specific minister with responsibility for climate change this time round), Energy, Agriculture, Land Information and Fisheries.
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 1:30 pm – Posted by Helen | 9 Comments
Just three weeks till the election and while the polls are tightening up a bit I probably wouldn’t be a making wildly speculative punt in predicting that they might be rearranging the furniture in the Beehive soon.
That thought has been exercising the minds of environmental types lately, in particular thinking about what a change of government would mean for conservation.
Mostly (but not entirely) the thinking among them is that a centre-Right government wouldn’t be a good thing. Me, I’m prepared to wait and see. In a past life as a press gallery journalist I spent far too much time in daily close proximity to politicians to maintain any delusion that any particular party had a monopoly on good policy in any given area, conservation included.