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Christine Rose
Environment – Better bus services
It’s felt like winter the last few days, so instead of riding my bike to work I have been getting a ride in a chauffeur-driven,...
Environment – Feeding the beast
Rubbish production is big business. Coca Cola is the world’s worst plastic polluter, and global corporations like it are all responsible for a scourge of...
Environment – The beauty and the beast
This year’s storm and cyclone disasters have ramped up ecological anxiety for many of us worried about the state of the finite, fragile blue and...
Environment – Over the line
Marine reserves can be so successful that fish life increases outside them as well as in. It may be that the abundant fish in the...
Environment – Re-prioritising, not just rebuilding
Last month I wrote about the value of electric light. I wrote from the luxury of my sunny South Island campsite. It all seems a...
Environment – Parkland equity?
This season I’m heading to the mountains in Te Waipounamu, the South Island. We’re heading down in our van, with toys and tools for every...
Environment – Farewell, Duggie
When I first met Duggie he was throwing his bowl around. He put his head down for a scratch on the noggin. He told me...
Environment – Baseline blues
Sometimes living in an expansive, rural landscape on the edge of New Zealand’s biggest city has disadvantages. We can feel like a dumping ground, expected...
Environment – Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
The rolling green and bush-clad hills of Rodney are lovely landscapes. Rivers winding through, rich habitats, a smorgasbord of beautiful beaches, and all on the...
Environment – Matariki ducklings
This year, Aotearoa New Zealand celebrated its first ever Matariki public holiday. It was a distinctly Kiwi event, celebrated nowhere else; a happy acknowledgement of...
