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Looking for our new report Climate Cheats II – The Dozen Dirty Businesses – Click here Today we are launching a new report called Climate Cheats. It shows that New Zealand was by far the biggest buyer of fraudulent foreign carbon credits … Read More

Wellington City Council (WCC) is proposing some changes to the Animal Bylaw, including microchipping cats and requiring owners to ask for permission to own more than a set number of cats. At moments like this it is remarkable to note … Read More

Are electric cars really the future of New Zealand transport? A group of enthusiasts think so and are driving the length of the country to prove it https://www.facebook.com/LeadingTheCharge/events/. Geoff goes for a test drive in a fully electric Nissan Leaf with … Read More

It’s been a sweltering Kiwi summer, and analysis released last week shows we aren’t the only ones feeling the heat. First NASA and then NOAA (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) released their latest global temperature data showing that … Read More

People love solar power, and it’s easy to see why. The idea of generating free, clean power from your roof – and giving the finger to the power companies – is obviously appealing. But will installing solar actually help reduce … Read More

Over summer the Choose Clean Water campaign toured the country, collecting stories about fresh water and gathering signatures for a petition to Parliament. In this Face to Face video we talk to Marnie Prickett – one of the inspirational young … Read More

The Tourism Export Council today has called for a five-year ban on new irrigation schemes following the dairy downturn. Should irrigation be banned? We don’t think so, but neither should irrigation be propped up by government funding. Each project should … Read More

You can’t please everyone. But in the case of the marine protection consultation (on which submissions close today), it seems the Government can’t please anyone. That is because the proposals they are putting forward won’t actually solve the problems we … Read More

On Monday we heard that Landcorp will not be proceeding with all of the planned conversions of forestry to dairy farms in the central North Island. On Tuesday we learned that the predicted milk payout has dropped to the lowest … Read More