The two previous posts have focused on the human response to the climate crisis, including the work on high conflict by Amanda Ripley. What emerges for me is the absolute importance of understanding how we are complicit in the crises that are afflicting us. Daniel Hoyer and his colleagues from the Crisis Database Programme have … Continue reading community Building
Rob de Laet created a three-episode series Cooling Climate Chaos: A Practical Path out of the Polycrisis. The series was hosted by Humanity Rising from 17 to 19 May 2023. There was a Te Tai Tokerau involvement in the series. Peter Bunyard and Gaia Peter Bunyard was a colleague of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis … Continue reading Cooling Climate Chaos
7 to 9 September at Forum North, Whangarei The 2023 Tai Tokerau Climate Action Conference is our third conference, following the 2018 and 2021 conferences. Registration will be open and more programme information will be available soon. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, the conference will be free, so we can get as many … Continue reading 2023 Tai Tokerau Climate Action Conference
In a normal summer Carlos's property would be much greener than the browning hills neighbouring him. While this has been nothing like a normal summer, Carlos’s property has luxuriant growth that his neighbours just can't match. He purchased the property in 2013. It is on a windswept ridge exposed to biting south-westerlies. The property has … Continue reading Water harvesting on Northland hills
Learning from other countries Header image credit: JustDiggit Cyclone Gabrielle was a big wake-up call for Aotearoa (New Zealand) with most people making the connection with climate change. We can learn from countries that have been dealing with weather much more extreme than ours. Australia and California come to mind, swinging as they go between … Continue reading Changing how we plan land use, part two
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