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Buying a home is one of the biggest choices you’ll ever make. Bundled in that one decision is a thousand factors that define your life. Your community, your bills, and who you’ll depend on in an emergency. In a changing climate, house buying comes with new risks. Climate
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There is a lot of bill slashing technology. Everything was on show at Electrify the Hutt.
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Everybody Eats rescues food destined for landfill and serves it to anyone who walks through the door. You pay what you can. It’s Wellington’s quietly radical answer to hunger and climate change.
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Living centrally in Wellington offers a first hand experience of what urban planners call the 15 minute city. After falling in love with this lifestyle, I want this option available for far more Wellingtonians.
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Predator Free's work carries an inspiring lesson: dedicated communities can make impossible visions real.
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The sea shapes our identity as New Zealanders. It's warming. Rapidly.
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Cities like Wellington aren’t built for a hotter world. Trees can help.
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Advertising has long been a seductive interest of mine. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was working at a small digital marketing agency. I’m fascinated by how it influences people, frames debates and shapes our community’s vision for the future. Advertising has power, which is why I’
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You have five minutes left in your break. You’ve read the latest news article about climate change or it’s a particularly hot day and that’s got you unnerved. Time is running out before heading back to work. You want to make a difference. What do you do?
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Next time you’re in Newtown, take a walk down Hospital Road. Nestled near the Blood Service and behind a kindergarten is something you wouldn’t picture in the central city: a farm. What was an underutilised bit of council land has become a thriving spot for growing kai and
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I need to admit something. I feel thrilled by climate change. It’s not because I want bad things to happen, or revel in the idea of a hotter climate. I am thrilled by climate change because it is a fantastic catalyst for smart people to solve an unprecedented problem.
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What does the prospect of switching to a low carbon lifestyle feel like to you? Daunting? Exciting? Vague and impossible? Low carbon choices face a serious communication problem. Fossil fuel companies have run serious misinformation campaigns to muddy what people think a low-carbon life is. Those campaigns have made actions