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‘How Did We Get So Lucky Grandma’? Far North Holdings 2040
“How did we get so lucky here in Tai Tokerau, Grandma?” a child in 2040 asks one of the community elders. “It all started,’ she explains, “when five local groups came together after the Covid19 crisis….. The Local Government Amendment Act 2019 gives Councils responsibility to ‘Promote the social, economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing of…
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Ocean Plastic: Choices for Cruising Yachties
(Pre-Covid19, this article was scheduled for publication in Opua Yacht Club’s ‘Tell Tales’ : April 2020 issue.) The challenge of plastic in our oceans is confronting. It’d be hard to find a beach anywhere in the world these days free of plastic flotsam so perhaps we as yachties can be part of the solution? What if…
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Universal Basic Income – get the facts right
Dear Editor (letter to New Zealand Herald 1 May 2020) While Mathew Hooten’s recent article purports to be an overview of the concept of Universal Basic Income, it is factually incorrect. These untruths distort the picture and devalue the concept. Hooten’s statement that UBI ‘ would need to be set somewhere just below the current…
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WHY WE NEED SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTES!
By September this year, the Far North District council must decide between 2 alternative processes for the next local government elections in 2022. Do they vote to keep the status quo, the current First-Past-the-Post electoral ‘race’ or follow the lead of 11 progressive councils last year, and adopt the ‘Single-Transferable-Vote system? ‘STV’ stands for ‘Simple…
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Post-Covid 19 :‘REPLAY’ or ‘RESET’ ?
Ko Ranginui e tū iho nei Ko Papatūānuku e takoto nei ( From a speech first prepared for Toastmasters meeting online 2 April 2020). Perhaps like many of you, I’ve been thinking this week of what New Zealand could look like post-lockdown. I’m sure we all heard the British Prime Minister talking about ‘Jenny…
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Aaagh! ‘How is (absent loved one)?’
The first time, indeed the only time I have dyed my hair blue, I was a 39 year-old mother of 3 with an ailing husband. Two months previously, Warwick’s diagnosis with an aggressive form of leukaemia had come as a shock: without treatment he has a month to live. The seismic shift that understanding wrought…
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Single-use Packaging : An email story.
From: Peter’s of Kensington Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2020 5:41 pmTo: meSubject: A reminder to review your products from www.petersofkensington.com.au . A quick reminder for you, Jane Banfield. Thanks again for buying these products from www.petersofkensington.com.au. We would like to remind you that writing a review of these products will help us improve our customer satisfaction. Cristel…
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SHOWING UP AS A ZERO WASTE GRANNY IN 2020
“Zero Waste is such a special doorway”, I explained to anyone who engaged me in conversation about my lifestyle last year. In mid-2016 when I chose to quit single-use plastic, motivated by the destruction I knew was happening in the oceans, I felt very scared. I worried that I’d miss out, make a fool of…
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A BIKE RIDE FOR WASTEAID (with Grandpa Bear)
I’m a Zero Waste Granny so combining catching up with my grandsons, a cycling adventure and Zero Waste seems obvious! After time with my family in Vietnam, I’ll be cycling from Hanoi over the mountains to Luang Prabang in Laos, a distance of 750km, to catch up with more family members. Ever worried about piles…
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NO BUTTS ABOUT IT
Cigarettes were part of my family’s history. My great-grandfather began a small cigarette company in England. My parents smoked. My husband smoked. I smoked. I remember the awkwardness of cigarette butts. What to do with them? Back then I didn’t know there was plastic in them, and that if dropped, birds and other marine life…
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