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Christine Rose
Environment – Fertiliser fouls
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...
Environment – Plastic bag menace
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...
Environment – Water is life
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...
Environment – Sounding off
It’s spring so the garden is full with a cacophony of bird song. Sparrows, blackbirds, starlings, doves, tui, kereru, rosellas, ducks and ducklings, turkeys and...
Environment – Optimists challenged
‘On the last day of the world, I would want to plant a tree,’ wrote US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin. Indeed, sometimes it feels like...
Environment – A matter of perspective
Regulation is essential for governing how we co-exist in balance with each other and nature – for public and environmental health. Since 1991 in New...
Environment – Walking on the wild side
By Christine Rose Images of orca dying and dead on New Zealand’s beautiful beaches, stir heartache in many of us. Orca are physically stunning, intelligent,...
Environment – Few fish left in the sea
Like many pre-election promises, the pledge to protect fish stocks of the Hauraki Gulf from commercial overfishing looked good on the surface but fails to...
Environment – Environmental injustice the norm
Western philosophers have debated justice at least since the time of Socrates. Theories of justice consider how evenly ‘goods’ are distributed. Where goods and ‘bads’,...
Environment – Captivity suits none
The importation to Auckland Zoo at ratepayers’ expense of new elephants to keep lonely solo elephant Burma company has generated discussion for many reasons. Should...
