This Ngeri was written at the request of Ani Pahuru-Huriwai in protest of the PETROBRAS hui called at Hinerupe marae. It was completed on the 6th of April 2011. It focuses on the power of unity in challenging times and in times of hardship. It calls for all people to unite and together, overcome adversity.

via Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua: Haere Atu Petrobras.

Burning coal is endangering our health, polluting the air and water, and making global warming worse.

And who is providing the dirty money to finance dirty coal power in Australia? According to Greenpeace Australia it’s the retail bank that claims it ‘lives in your world’ – ANZ.

Here’s the video ANZ doesn’t want you to see …

ANZ is officially the dirtiest bank in Australia.

Despite announcing its plan to be carbon neutral by the end of 2009, ANZ is the largest financer of dirty coal power in Australia. Over the past five years, ANZ has poured nearly 1.6 billion dollars into coal power stations, coal mines and coal ports. At a time when we need to be cutting pollution and investing in renewable energy, ANZ is using our money to expand Australia’s coal industry.

Greenpeace Australia Pacific – Clean Energy Future – Take Action.

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant infections has reached unprecedented levels and now outstrips our ability to fight it with existing drugs, European health experts are warning.

Each year in the EU over 25,000 people die of bacterial infections that are able to outsmart even the newest antibiotics.

The World Health Organization says the situation has reached a critical point.

via BBC News – Europe ‘losing’ superbugs battle.

I was looking for a way to keep track of all the news sources I frequent and I thought, with a few plugins, wordpress might be a solution.

So here’s  my first stab at a one stop shop for NZ News and other stuff I like to keep tabs on.

The taxonomy needs some work and the ‘feed wordpress’ plugin doesn’t grab tags unless they are in the <a rel=”tag”>…</a> format which doesn’t seem too common unfortunately.

Quote of the day is from Steve Abel at the deep sea oil flotilla send off.

“We owe and apology to Petrobras the Brazillian company that is coming here to drill for oil, because when our Government told you that you where welcome here, they were not speaking for us; and as long as you stay here, we will resist you, and we will thwart you.”

YouTube – Rousing Send Off for Flotilla.

Greenpeace have made a new new TV ad message to Facebook using hundreds of photos which supporters posted on its Facebook Unfriend Coal page. Watch the video below, and share it with your friends!

Just been playing around with Klout for @GreenpeaceNZ Fun stuff.

Check out the new Fonterra website.

“What nature creates, Fonterra exploits to bring the taint of industrial dairying to every corner of the world. Driving productivity at any cost is our life’s work.”

The fonterra environmental policy reveals interesting results.