A citizens’ initiative for a community wind farm in Long Gully is inviting wider public participation this month, at an open meeting  planned for Friday 19th November in Wellington at Crossways Community Centre, Mt Victoria. Community wind farms like this one have several major advantages over large commercial wind farms: they are smaller in size [...]

Wellington, 16th-21st December 2009: Aotearoa’s first ever Climate Camp seeks to address the real causes of climate change and build a people’s movement that can and will stop disastrous climate change.

The International Panel on Climate Change confirms that serious climate change impacts are already happening, and significant climate tipping points have already been passed. Greenhouse emissions must peak now, and then we must return them to their pre-industrial level of 280ppm. Fran Wilde, Chair of Greater Wellington, acknowledges in the foreword to our Regional Policy [...]