Environment

Environment

ROTARIANS HELP WITH PLANTING DAY AT WAIRIO WETLAND

The Wairio wetland is on the east side of Wairarapa Moana near the Boggy Pond. For the last 15 years a major…

Aug 2021

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Phasing out fossil fuel use – one town at a time

The Climate Change Commission Report to the Government is titled “Ināia Tonu Nei”, The Time is Now. But in reality it fails…

Aug 2021

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Moa Manure

Analysis of fossilised excrement of a little bush moa from Fiordlad dated from 4,600 to 6,800 years ago supports the theory that…

Aug 2021

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Fishing monopolies

An investigation by Greenpeace last year revealed that 29% of the UK’s fishing quota is owned by five families, all of whom…

Aug 2021

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Planting for Tomorrow

June 18th and despite the rather cloudy day and the threat of light misty rain 35 Martinborough residents turned out to transform…

July 2021

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Twenty waste producing companies  

Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis…

Jun 2021

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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