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A few worthwhile reads from other blogs:
Anna McM at the Hand Mirror continues a fascinating discussion on the value, or otherwise, of rugby. You’ll also want to read as background the Hand Mirror’s earlier pieces on the casual way our rugby media has brushed aside accusations of rape against the English rugby team as either […]

It’s hard to comprehend just out frustrated, possibly even outraged, environmentally leaning ministers like Jim Anderton, Trevor Mallard and Clayton Cosgrove must be feeling after they learnt that their months of separating out the compost from their parliamentary waste in beehive offices has all been for naught.  As Jeanette revealed today:
Ministers, presumably including the Prime […]

Turns out when you’re talking about Diet Coke the real thing in question is Sodium Benzoate (it travels on its shiny label on plastic bottles under the pseudonym 211). Last year British research linked sodium benozoate to cell damage:
“These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point […]

I just spotted this epistle in among the Christchurch Press letters this morning:
Now that the mainstream has acknowledged peak oil is upon us, hopefully that will also bring on the end of peak stupidity.
Much of what we do is really stupid if you think about it in terms of how it may impact tomorrow.
Plastic bags, […]

Here’s a small Green item that I let slip past last week but which deserves commenting on.  Last week Jeanette wrote to John Key asking to see what would be in his alternative to the Emissions Trading Scheme and when he would introduce it.
National has said for some time that it favours an emissions trading […]

With Zimbabwe falling into chaos, or worse, tyranny, it was timely that I should receive an email call to action from global poverty and peace campaigning group Avaaz.  I normally reflexively support whatever Avaaz is campaigning on.  But this time I paused because its email to me was calling for a unity government - lead […]

The Business Council for Sustainable Development’s report arguing that an emissions trading scheme could lead to more than $12 billion of investment over the next 10 years and create nearly 10,000 jobs has certainly thrown the cat amongst the pigeons.
The interesting thing to me is not so much the validity or not of NZBCSD’s research […]