Archive for April 5th, 2006

Listening for the weather

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Wouldn’t it be great if the nightly TV weather report discussed weather events with reference to global warming and climate change, and reported on human impacts on the weather? It would be a change from the three minutes of cushy feel-good reporting and inane banter with the newsreaders, imagine if the weather report was meaningful, […]

Posted in Environment & Resource Management, Media | 9 Comments »

Lotto tickets not a better bet

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

The front page of the Dominion Post this morning featured a story about Lotto’s new tickets, suggesting that the move from the iconic yellow paper to new white tickets that look like supermarket receipts and fade in the sun may have been a bad one.
The Greens agree - but not just because the new tickets […]

Posted in Economy, Work, & Welfare, Society & Culture | 7 Comments »