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Christine Rose
Environment – Pet or pest?
Some say a weed is just a plant in the wrong place. Context makes the difference between a plant and a weed, or a pest...
Environment – Humans and hens
My garden is home to two brown shaver hens, Speckle and Shy. They are fine company in the garden, always keen on my weeding, chatting...
Environment – Recycling headaches
For the last 20 years we’ve been learning how to recycle. We’ve developed social norms that have seen recycling become acceptable practice rather than just...
Environment – Brilliant bird
When our old cat died and wasn’t replaced, the birds returned to our garden. This included a pukeko clan. I’ve loved them ever since. I...
Environment – Planning for disaster
By Christine Rose The latest earthquakes which have damaged so much infrastructure, environmental and economic value in the South Island bring focus on sustainability and...
Environment – Call for greyhound racing re-think
By Christine Rose Greyhound racing is legal in only eight countries globally. New Zealand is one of them. In New South Wales, Australia, it was...
Environment – Towards sustainable consumption
New Zealand’s contribution to deforestation in the tropical rainforest habitat of orangutans was lessened this week with announcements from Landcorp and Fonterra that they would...
Environment – Where’s the balance?
The ringing in of the New Year brings speculation over what the future will bring, in both the year ahead and the longer term. For...
Environment – Time for nature
Rudyard Kipling tapped into something essential about the relationship between people and nature when he said, ‘When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy,...
Environment – Nature will have her way
These days, every storm seems to bear down with unprecedented ferocity. Extreme weather events are a regular occurrence. High seas now wash boulders onto roads...
