Environment

Environment

Under The Martinborough Stars

For a really long time, we thought our planet, the Earth, was slap bang in the centre of the whole Universe. Everything…

Jun 2021

Environment

Electric Vehicles ‘Plugging In’

The Climate Change Commission has recently recommended that battery powered vehicles be widely adopted. It is, they believe, the key to New…

Jun 2021

Environment

Crowding space

At present there’s over 3,000 satellites in orbit but that number is set to increase immensely with the launch of systems such as Starlink…

Jun 2021

Environment

Under The Martinborough Stars 

“You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the…

May 2021

Environment

The father of PV solar

Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might made solar power the cheapest power humanity has seen – and no one saw it coming…

May 2021

Environment

The Uninvited

Horrors. Many people in Martinborough are bemoaning the fact that several unwanted guests have decided that now, with the cooler autumnal evenings…

May 2021

Environment

Saving the kumara 

Peruvian researchers from the International Potato Centre say that 93% of one of the world’s most important crops are threatened by global…

May 2021

Environment

Aorangi Restoration Trust needs more volunteers

The Aorangi Restoration Trust envisions a healthy and vital Aorangi Forest and surrounds restored to its former glory. Imagine the return of Tuatara and Blue…

May 2021

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