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The good oat: How farmers are investing in the future of plant-derived milks

Pete McKenzie – Originally posted on Stuff One of Graeme Gardyne’s first memories is of watching the blades of his father’s combine harvester whir through a field of oats. “As a child, you’re in awe of these machines going round – even though they were much smaller than what they are now.”The Gardyne family farm …

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Strings-free Air NZ loan a ‘missed opportunity’ to give NZ a low-carbon future

Eloise Gibson – Originally Posted on Stuff The Government missed chances to use the Covid-19 rebuild to speed progress towards being carbon-neutral, says a new analysis. Strings-free help for Air New Zealand and “reactive” decisions undermined other progress towards clean energy, according to analysts, who ran a ruler over the pandemic response. Energy Policy Tracker …

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New Zealand’s COVID-19 stimulus is a ‘lost opportunity’ to move towards a low-emissions economy

David Hall, Nina Ives – Originally Posted on The Conversation In every crisis there is opportunity. Even during New Zealand’s strictest COVID-19 lockdown last year, many people felt the pandemic offered a chance to tackle other global crises, especially climate change. The government responded to the pandemic with an extraordinary package of monetary and fiscal …

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Mike Joy: Why I was disappointed by the Climate Commission’s big report

Mike Joy – Originally posted on The Spinoff The prime minister said yesterday that we need to move faster on climate – but does the government really understand how fast it’s going to have to act? Yesterday’s report suggests the message still hasn’t got through, writes ecologist Mike Joy. “The time is now” is the …

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The idea of ‘green growth’ is flawed. We must find ways of using and wasting less energy

Mike Joy – Originally posted on The Conversation As countries explore ways of decarbonising their economies, the mantra of “green growth” risks trapping us in a spiral of failures. Green growth is an oxymoron. Growth requires more material extraction, which in turn requires more energy. The fundamental problem we face in trying to replace fossil …

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New Zealand, and the world, needs ethical leadership on global warming

Don Abel – Originally posted on Stuff It is extraordinary that school students around the world have taken direct action to highlight the indifference of the powerful and resourced to address global warming with any sense of urgency. The science is incontrovertible, the evidence is before our eyes in melting polar caps, extreme weather events, …

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