Eleanor Howden
@aganor.bsky.social
Tangata Tiriti.
Live in Tahuna to be closer to grandchildren. Love the maunga, roto and awa.
People and planet need our care.
We're in 'a massive, existential fight between the looters and life on Earth.' George Monbiot
Live in Tahuna to be closer to grandchildren. Love the maunga, roto and awa.
People and planet need our care.
We're in 'a massive, existential fight between the looters and life on Earth.' George Monbiot
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The window to act on climate is rapidly closing. Our new 2025 State of the Climate report is just out. Read the full report here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... @michaelemann.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The window to act on climate is rapidly closing. Our new 2025 State of the Climate report is just out. Read the full report here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... @michaelemann.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social
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A must-read article for anyone interested in the future of education in NZ... Which should be everyone who lives here.
And I hope after reading this you start supporting @etangata.bsky.social - they're a hugely important outlet for stories and voices like this.
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
And I hope after reading this you start supporting @etangata.bsky.social - they're a hugely important outlet for stories and voices like this.
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
The imported ideology behind education reform | E-Tangata
“If a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum isn’t grounded in te ao Māori and the very people and things that make Aotearoa unique, who is determining the knowledge and where does it come from?” — Jessie Moss o...
e-tangata.co.nz
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
A must-read article for anyone interested in the future of education in NZ... Which should be everyone who lives here.
And I hope after reading this you start supporting @etangata.bsky.social - they're a hugely important outlet for stories and voices like this.
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
And I hope after reading this you start supporting @etangata.bsky.social - they're a hugely important outlet for stories and voices like this.
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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#nzpol Labour is proposing to create a Capital Gains Tax on property - excluding farms and the family home. That income will help make GP visits free for the majority of people. Is that a better policy than continuing tax-free profits on, say, someone's seventh property? Absolutely. A🧵
Release: Targeted tax to grow the economy and fund free doctor’s visits
www.labour.org.nz
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
#nzpol Labour is proposing to create a Capital Gains Tax on property - excluding farms and the family home. That income will help make GP visits free for the majority of people. Is that a better policy than continuing tax-free profits on, say, someone's seventh property? Absolutely. A🧵
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For further discussion, see:
Biggest-Ever Scientific Review Shines Fresh Light on the Health Benefits of Nature-Rich Cities
Biggest scientific review to date on health co-benefits of urban biodiversity confirms growing importance—and tradeoffs—of making space for nature in our fast-growing cities.
www.nature.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
For further discussion, see:
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Yes, solutions for nature are also solutions for health!
This new analysis finds urban greening is "associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including improved physical and mental health, increased physical activity, improved childhood development, and reduced exposure to harms."
This new analysis finds urban greening is "associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including improved physical and mental health, increased physical activity, improved childhood development, and reduced exposure to harms."
Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yes, solutions for nature are also solutions for health!
This new analysis finds urban greening is "associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including improved physical and mental health, increased physical activity, improved childhood development, and reduced exposure to harms."
This new analysis finds urban greening is "associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including improved physical and mental health, increased physical activity, improved childhood development, and reduced exposure to harms."
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It's just such a tell that they have no interest or intention to serve the public, just rubber stamp corporates to rip us off. Literally your job to represent the public and read/hear us you fucking lazy turd.
'Coordinated, largely online campaigns' make it harder for politicians to consider good-faith submissions on laws
Tighter rules may be needed to stem flow of public submissions, MP says
newsroom.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's just such a tell that they have no interest or intention to serve the public, just rubber stamp corporates to rip us off. Literally your job to represent the public and read/hear us you fucking lazy turd.
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From Auckland University - Opinion: How much did the Govt pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools? And how else might we have spent that money?
If the curriculum ain't broke, don't fix it
newsroom.co.nz
October 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
From Auckland University - Opinion: How much did the Govt pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools? And how else might we have spent that money?
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Please vote on this, they're doing EVERYTHING they can to turn the public against each other
#nzpol
#nzpol
Have your say: Where do you stand on the ‘mega strike’?
Do you support the workers’ grievances, or is the government right to question their motives? We want to hear your thoughts.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Please vote on this, they're doing EVERYTHING they can to turn the public against each other
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Damn, I read Judith's letter! I'll leave the politics to others, but, lord, the Govt spending stuff is REALLY BAD! I'll try and keep this short.
First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]
First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]
October 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Damn, I read Judith's letter! I'll leave the politics to others, but, lord, the Govt spending stuff is REALLY BAD! I'll try and keep this short.
First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]
First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]
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Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
October 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
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NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59
Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59
Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit - Carbon Brief
On the sidelines of a conference, Carbon Brief asked a range of experts what they consider to be the key “unknowns” around overshoot.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59
Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59
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🚴 The way to make cycle paths "make sense" is to invest in connecting them. Once they connect right through to destinations, more people use them.
Transport Minister Chris Bishop is keen to see more children learning to ride bikes, but on halving cycleway spending says, “it’s fair to say that some people are sick and tired of cycle lanes in areas where they don't make sense”.
Transport minister promotes cycle safety, backs cycle lane funding cuts
Transport Minister Chris Bishop is keen to see more children learning to ride bikes, but on halving cycleway spending says, “it’s fair to say that some people are sick and tired of cycle lanes in areas where they don't make sense”.
dlvr.it
October 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🚴 The way to make cycle paths "make sense" is to invest in connecting them. Once they connect right through to destinations, more people use them.
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The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
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More good work by Greg Sargent
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
More good work by Greg Sargent
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Jane Goodall final message
The pernicious idea that economic development should come before the environment. In reality, we’re on a planet with finite resources, and if we exhaust them, it could spell our own end
“Humans are not exempt from extinction,”
www.vox.com/climate/4634...
The pernicious idea that economic development should come before the environment. In reality, we’re on a planet with finite resources, and if we exhaust them, it could spell our own end
“Humans are not exempt from extinction,”
www.vox.com/climate/4634...
Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message
Her last interviews are essential listening for everyone.
www.vox.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Jane Goodall final message
The pernicious idea that economic development should come before the environment. In reality, we’re on a planet with finite resources, and if we exhaust them, it could spell our own end
“Humans are not exempt from extinction,”
www.vox.com/climate/4634...
The pernicious idea that economic development should come before the environment. In reality, we’re on a planet with finite resources, and if we exhaust them, it could spell our own end
“Humans are not exempt from extinction,”
www.vox.com/climate/4634...
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The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
An ‘election changing’ 55,000 votes could be barred under controversial new law
The Government’s changes to voting laws will see a 400% increase in “disallowed” votes, the Electoral Commission says.
www.thepost.co.nz
September 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
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This is not good policy, nor targeted spending. It’s just a press release trying to distract people from the very real problems in health. Our health system needs real solutions and real funding - to properly support health workers across Aotearoa. Not more spin.
September 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is not good policy, nor targeted spending. It’s just a press release trying to distract people from the very real problems in health. Our health system needs real solutions and real funding - to properly support health workers across Aotearoa. Not more spin.
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Rather than pretend $20m is going to make any difference (it represents 0.06% of health funding), the Minister could recognise the government underfunded health to begin with. He could pay nurses and doctors properly - rather than fight them.
September 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Rather than pretend $20m is going to make any difference (it represents 0.06% of health funding), the Minister could recognise the government underfunded health to begin with. He could pay nurses and doctors properly - rather than fight them.
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New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
September 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
THE HISTORY OF GAZA
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...
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It's a very dangerous moment in history when the US VP, and a man who is likely to become POTUS, tells such lies.
The greatest deaths in a mass shooting was the Utoya massacre of young people attending a summer socialist camp, by the right wing lunatic Anders Breivik. Then the NZ mass shooting.
1/4
The greatest deaths in a mass shooting was the Utoya massacre of young people attending a summer socialist camp, by the right wing lunatic Anders Breivik. Then the NZ mass shooting.
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Vance Says It’s a ‘Statistical Fact’ the Left Commits Most Political Violence. The Actual Stats Show He’s Lying
Political violence is overwhelmingly committed by the right, not the left, in the US. Just ask the experts, the DOJ, and even Trump’s own appointees:
zeteo.com/p/jd-vance-p...
Political violence is overwhelmingly committed by the right, not the left, in the US. Just ask the experts, the DOJ, and even Trump’s own appointees:
zeteo.com/p/jd-vance-p...
Vance Says It’s a ‘Statistical Fact’ the Left Commits Most Political Violence. The Actual Stats Show He’s Lying
Political violence is overwhelmingly committed by the right, not the left, in the US. Just ask the experts, the Department of Justice, and even Trump’s own appointees.
zeteo.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It's a very dangerous moment in history when the US VP, and a man who is likely to become POTUS, tells such lies.
The greatest deaths in a mass shooting was the Utoya massacre of young people attending a summer socialist camp, by the right wing lunatic Anders Breivik. Then the NZ mass shooting.
1/4
The greatest deaths in a mass shooting was the Utoya massacre of young people attending a summer socialist camp, by the right wing lunatic Anders Breivik. Then the NZ mass shooting.
1/4
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Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion.
Car dependency, foolish land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.
Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
Car dependency, foolish land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.
Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
September 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion.
Car dependency, foolish land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.
Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
Car dependency, foolish land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.
Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
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Privatisation of UK industries driving cost of living crisis & inequality.
People ripped off by water, energy, rail, mail companies.
Profiteering at care homes, dentists, GP surgeries, cataract clinics. Social housing destroyed.
Privatisation is a scam. Delivered low investment, poor service.
People ripped off by water, energy, rail, mail companies.
Profiteering at care homes, dentists, GP surgeries, cataract clinics. Social housing destroyed.
Privatisation is a scam. Delivered low investment, poor service.
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader
Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Privatisation of UK industries driving cost of living crisis & inequality.
People ripped off by water, energy, rail, mail companies.
Profiteering at care homes, dentists, GP surgeries, cataract clinics. Social housing destroyed.
Privatisation is a scam. Delivered low investment, poor service.
People ripped off by water, energy, rail, mail companies.
Profiteering at care homes, dentists, GP surgeries, cataract clinics. Social housing destroyed.
Privatisation is a scam. Delivered low investment, poor service.