Christine Rose

The best way to celebrate summer is to go to the beach. We’re lucky in Rodney and the wider Auckland region to have some of...

Auckland Council is considering areas for self-contained freedom camping under a bylaw review. Come summer, campgrounds will be full, beaches will be busy and a...

Even basic food items seem expensive. The household grocery shop takes up a significant portion of a domestic budget, yet we waste an eighth of...

‘Swedish Death Cleaning’ is a new trend, but unlike other trends that are based on acquiring ‘stuff’ you’re unlikely to really need, Swedish Death Cleaning...

Dog control bylaws are one of the most controversial subjects in local government. Nothing generates emphatic submissions quite like a council’s consultation on dog control,...

The world’s biggest livestock carrier, the Ocean Drover, has been in New Zealand waters to collect 6600 dairy cows to ship to China. The Ocean...

Despite widespread kerbside recycling schemes, and the (patchy) roll out of dedicated public recycling facilities across the country, especially in tourist hotspots, New Zealand’s roads...

Fertiliser run off from farmland is a waste of money. It’s a waste of resource that is bad for streams, rivers, lakes,  the sea, and...

An estimated 40,000 plastic bags go to landfill in New Zealand every hour and around 1.6 billion are used every year in this country. But...

They say ‘you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ and, with unpolluted water, that seems to be the case. One generation ago, we...