In New Zealand, Rewiring Aotearoa has demonstrated that it's cheaper to leave fossil fuels for households, even before the oil crisis and associated skyrocketing prices. All solutions exist.
www.rewiring.nz/reports#repo...
Scroll down the page to find the report relevant to you.
Reaching net zero by 2050 is cheaper than business as usual www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I personally choose to wean ourselves off petrol for the planet's and our health, and because it creates a beautiful resilient life.
Now that it's "cheaper", many will accelerate the effort👏🌱🌞🫂🌏
#GardenGoodies for dinner. Carrots and beetroot, corn. The greens tonight are dandelion, dock, carrot and beetroot leaves.
Tomatoes are to toast and share our #gratitude for nature.
#edibles
#localfood
#growyourfood
#lowcarbonliving
#resilience
#love
#gardening
These trees are not old, maybe 120 years when these conifers live 500+
Douglas firs do spread in some areas but not in our dry region.
This anti-exotic tree fashion is as shocking to me as racism. #Inthegarden native and non-native trees grow in harmony. Birds love them all specially the old ones.
"Just old pines"!
A large group of Douglas firs is planned to be cut for a "succession plan", cut first and put lovely baby native trees instead.
I oppose it, we need to keep all our trees
regenerativelifestyle.blog/2025/10/23/p...
What do you think?
It means I have polluted half for 11 years. It adds up.
A friend has been saying for 11 years that her old petrol guzzling car is absolutely fine and she'll consider hybrid when it dies. In the meantime, she pays and pollutes more.
In short, the earliest you can, switch to hybrid, EV, solar...
Very true, thank you D Jukic for your good coverage of #nzpol and for sharing the unprivileged stories.
A loved one who loves you very much 💕
Thank you for sharing such a lovely heartwarming letter.
More than 10 years ago, no fossil fuels war. Yet fossil fuels pollutions from extraction, transport, use and emissions were well known.
So I bought a Prius and since then, I have used (and paid) half less petrol than most car drivers for same distance.
regenerativelifestyle.blog/2015/05/09/w...
Can these guys get organized and create a social entreprise owned by employees? Many exemples in the world and NZ too.
For #FridaysForFuture, I have worked on and published a post about creating a simple compost toilet, why, how. On my regenerative Lifestyle blog here 👇
#savingwater #closingtheloop #regenerativelifestyle
#composttoilet
Inspiring? Useful?
regenerativelifestyle.blog/2026/03/27/s...
With love 💕
Harvest for lunch, can't be fresher.
Followed by fruit for breakfast, always different,
Thank you 🙏garden, trees, nature, universe🌏🌞🕉️🫂 #gratitude #harmonywithnature #Love #connectedness #oneness
I love that, thank you, way to go. Grow and eat from the garden as much as possible. It's fun, good for resilience, mental and physical health and low-carbon and regenerative for the land, the planet.
Here, our latest #gardengoodies!
Sharing positive climate action in practice, great idea. 💡🌱🌞🤝🌏
Trees lifespans...
When a pine is 40 years old, it is just a teenager.
All these trees in the photos have been planted in the last 20 years by my partner (mostly!) and I. At least 600, all different, over the years becoming a forest. We walk through them every day, we care and water them as required.
I can't think of a more joyful satisfying way to fill our property.
For #forestfriday today, I share our creation of a forest. This Atlantic Cedar was planted 4 years ago, then knee height, now taller than me. I saved him from compost after it was in the discount corner of a nursery because the label was missing. I loved it straight away and still love it every day.
A quick Google search reveals tree lifespans, much longer than we humans, not the same timescale.
(Governing people can't think beyond next elections. Short termism is really a disengagement from responsibility.)
It's not human role to kill long living beings. All trees are treasures, to be kept🌳
Good for health and cheap, great to replace meat protein so good for the planet, good for the soil, specially as part of crop rotation as they and oh, I love them😋
Nice to see the sector getting organized to scale it up in Britain. So important for resilience of a country to grow their own food.
Interesting study about NZ processed food imports concerning trend.
Also bad for health, packaging (=pollution), #foodkilometers and resilience...
Free markets are not working for the good of people nor the planet.
#Iwillvote to support healthy #localfood.
theconversation.com/nz-imports-o...
Maybe the Impact Initiative can help?
#socialentreprise
www.theimpactinitiative.org.nz
Inspiring story of 1336 teas in France. When Unilever decided to close a tea making company, the employees took their destiny in their hands and created a cooperative
www.scop-ti.info/notre-histoi...
I hope Canterbury and Hawkes bay producers and food processing employees will manage that too.
Yes to a "Buy from NZ" campaign
Yes to employees taking over as a social entreprise. Cooperatives work!
Yes to Councils encouraging Commons for community gardens, food forests or plots
Yes to landowners sharing a part of their land for local food production by local grower social enterprise
While rice, teas and other tropical goodies rightly come from India, Asia and Pacific Islands, a lot of food can be grown in NZ but are imported. Lentils from Canada, rye from Australia etc.
Of course, the watties/McCain situation could worsen the situation.
Unless, the food sector wakes up.
We grow food but nowhere near enough for our needs. So we buy as locally as possible. Farmers market, local fresh grocer, New World and Piko (an organic shop in Christchurch). I inquired about the origin of our foods. Results are alarming, apart from NZ wholemeal flour, buckwheat and linseed!
#Goodnews from the Amazon (February 2026).
“The river won, the forest won, the memory of our ancestors won”
One battle for the planet won.
Thank you Alessandra👏and all who help.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#LocalFood is a #winwinwin for well-being, resilience, low-carbon living, affordability, biodiversity, community, urban environment and provides food every day.
Great to see the #localfood movement grow🌱
Supporting the right to grow medium.com/horizons-ins...
Energy transition webinar by @350Aotearoa on Tuesday 31 March 7pm
We have more power than we think! Energetically, individually and collectively! 🌞💡💪
act.350.org/signup/our-p...
#energy #nzpol
Looking deeper...
Saving fossil fuels is a no-brainer, as much as we can, each of us.
Doing, buying, going less.
1- convert to electric and solar as soon as possible.
2- Shift to local circular fossilfuelsfree resilience simplicity regeneration
We have done it over the last decade, rewarding #Love
#being 🌞🕉️🌳🫂🍓🌏
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