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Weekday programme Morning Brew is a chat and music show. Hosted by Phil Whelan, guests include regular contributors and drop-ins, who span topics from earnest current affairs to cookery to the arts. Catch it live: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1pm
A host of music-makers, most of them local, gave us life with fuzzbox baselines, sublime post-punk, plush soundscapes, more.
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 1:59 pm Climate Venture Capital Fund, New Zealand’s only dedicated climate-change venture capital fund, has made its first investment. The New Zealand-based fund invested in MGA Thermal, an Australian clean energy company that uses state-of-art metallurgy to create shoebox-sized composite blocks for storing renewable energy. “We are thrilled to make this investment, not just because it’s our first, but because MGA Thermal shows such promise,” says Dr Jez Weston, a partner in CVCF. A trained metallurgist, Dr Weston led CVCF’s investment process. “The co...
Hannah D'amato and Alex Post of the Oakland band Fake Fruit were kind enough to join me today (over the phone). We discussed music, vancouver and oakland scenes, bowling, cool guys, cooking, friends, djing, and what they think about always being compared to Courtney Barnett.Fake FruitFake FruitNo Space for ResidenceFake FruitFake FruitDon't Put it on MeFake FruitFake FruitMiscommunicationFake FruitFake FruitStroke My EgoFake FruitFake FruitNo Mutuals
Coal-rich Hunter Valley ponders jobs future as Asian giants commit to net-zero carbon emissions MonMonday 1 updated TueTuesday 2 FebFebruary 2021 at 2:08am Gerard Spinks and Carl Kirwin are not as worried about their own futures as those of their children and grandchildren. ( Share Print text only Cancel At the Lochinvar pub in the NSW Hunter Valley, a couple of power industry workers meet for a drink and ponder the future. "Everybody's a bit nervous because we are very reliant about coal, coal-fired power," says Gerard Spinks, who has worked for 39 years in the power stations of the Upper Hu...