Nick Young

I am deeply despondent about the total and utter lack of leadership and foresight shown by the world’s so called leaders. The climate summit was a train wreck.
Obama! I had so much hope. I believed you when you said we could.
However, I am an optimist and as Greenpeace has said - their failure will [...]

The giant NZ dairy cooperative Fonterra have been exposed by a Greenpeace investigation as being responsible for destruction of rain-forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Their intensive industrial dairy model requires NZ farmers to use supplemental feed - in this case palm kernels grown on land where up until very recently was pristine rain-forest inhabited by [...]

If you’re going to do one thing for the world this year then do this. Sign On to ask John Key to commit to 40 per cent emissions reduction targets by 2020. It’s a must.
Just ask Jim Salinger and Bonnie Soper and the chaps from Huffer

Project 10 to the 100th
Project 10100 (pronounced “Project 10 to the 100th”) is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Here’s how to join in.

1. Send your idea by October 20th.
Simply fill out the submission form giving Google the gist of your idea. You can supplement your [...]

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Got a great release from Save Happy Valley today.
I couldn’t find it online so here it is :
The Save Happy Valley Coalition today sent Solid Energy a bill for $12 million dollars on behalf of the people of New Zealand.
Fugitive methane emissions from coal mining – where gases leak from the coal seam itself – [...]

The traditional incandescent light bulb will soon be no more in the land of the wrong white crowd. As part of a strategy for more energy efficient lighting announced today by New Zealand’s Energy Minister David Parker and Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation Jeanette Fitzsimons the old inefficient bulbs will be phased out.
“The [...]

The Heartland Institute (a very dodgy outfit it seems ) recently issued a lit of 500 scientists they say have “Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares”. That’s a lot of scientists and a lot of doubt if it were true. The list includes several New Zealanders including Jim Salinger from NIWA.
Heartland funded [and] the [...]

Over at Gareth Renowden’ s Hot Topic blog the ‘Climate cranks claim a scalp‘ post has been removed with the following disclaimer:
This post removed at the request of The Listener and their friends at Bell Gully.
He provides some explanation here and here.
The story has created quite a little storm in the blog sphere including a [...]

In Al Gores brand-new slideshow premiering exclusively on TED.com, he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. [...]