Month: May 2019

  • Chair’s report May 2019 – the climate crisis, Anzac day and Chickens

    This is my latest report covering various matters including declaring a climate change emergency for the Waitakere Ranges Local Board area, Anzac day, the moving on of Community Constable Heber Gasu track reopenings and chickens. Climate change Moved: That this report be received. That the Waitakere Ranges Local Board declares a climate emergency for the…

  • It’s the end of the world as we know it *

    It’s the end of the world as we know it *

    The United Nations has published a report that paints a stark warning that humanity’s current treatment of the world’s environment is destroying it. From Kate Gudsell at Radio New Zealand: The most comprehensive report on the global state of biodiversity to date has found one million species are threatened with extinction. The just-published United Nations…

  • Climate change is this Government’s nuclear free issue

    Climate change is this Government’s nuclear free issue

    Jacinda Ardern is right.  Climate change is this generation’s nuclear free moment.  And it is therefore this Government’s nuclear free issue. After the mixed feelings caused by the response to the CGT proposal there is an imperative for the Government to make sure that its response is resolute.  Otherwise there will be the feeling that…