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Meet the Judges of the 2020 BookLife Nonfiction Prize By PW Staff | Apr 28, 2021 Four accomplished authors are serving as guest judges for the 2020 BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest. Each author selected what they felt to be the strongest title from among five semifinalists within four given categories: Memoir/Autobiography, Self-Help/Relationships, Business/Personal Finance, and Inspirational/Spirituality. The four selected books are now finalists for the grand prize, w...

Invited to speak at US president Joe Biden's virtual climate summit, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not announce any new climate initiatives.

OPINION: This Thursday is Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s first big chance to deliver on her headline political commitment. Generation Zero wants the Prime Minister to announce the world’s best emissions-reduction target when she joins US President Joe Biden at his Earth Day Leaders’ Climate Summit. As kaitiaki of the Zero Carbon Act, we as an organisation hold responsibilities for its success and implementation. Hence we are calling upon our government to address New Zealand’s history...

Press Release – Generation Zero Generation Zero is demanding transparency from the Wellington City Council on funding decisions. Last month Generation Zero questioned the Council on the proposed $75million loan to Wellington International Airport and it was dropped from the draft Long Term Plan amidst confusion from Councillors. Now, through a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act request, we have learned that this loan was included without Council reports or assessments to...

Monday, 12 April 2021, 4:33 pm Generation Zero is demanding transparency from Wellington City Council on funding decisions and welcomes the opportunity to feedback on the proposed Long Term Plan. Last month Generation Zero questioned the Council on the proposed $75 million loan to Wellington International Airport and it was dropped from the LTP amidst confusion from Councillors. Now, through a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act request, we have learned that this loan was in...

Mixed reactions to Auckland light rail announcement Mixed reactions to Auckland light rail announcement Friday, April 2, 2021 RNZ The governments latest plan to get Aucklands light rail project back on track has received mixed reviews from some of those who will be affected by it. Transport Minister Michael Wood announced on Wednesday plans to establish a new working group to come up with a business case for the project. It will have six months to provide the government with i...

Wood admitted the Ministry of Transport’s doomed twin track process, which involved competing bids from the NZTA and the NZ Super Fund-led NZ Infra proposal, was flawed. “It shut Aucklanders out of the process,” Wood said. “But today I’m drawing a line under it and including Auckland from the get go.” STUFF Transport Minister Michael Wood admits Aucklanders were left out of previous consultations over light rail through the city, and announced new engagement processes. Karen Wils...

Blood On Our Hands: Local climate activists taking on big corporations It’s easy to think that the future is already fucked. Activists of New Zealand past have lived and died fighting for nuclear disarmament, environmental protections, and the return of stolen land to tangata whenua, fed up by the unjust world they saw around them. But we still face apocalyptic scenes of an uncertain future today. Young activists today are just as fed up but are keen to make a real difference.  Local groups ...

Illustration by Andrew Zbihlyj In February’s Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the modern GOP had one last shot at rescuing its long-battered image as a responsible governing party. It might have reclaimed something of its former standing as an honest broker in the American two-party system, committed (among other things) to the peaceful transition of power, the conduct of free and fair elections, and e...

A Māori and Pasifika youth environmental organisation is one of the first recipients of a Jeanette Fitzsimons Climate Action Grant, announced to mark...