Imagine my relief.

The ground has been changing around us so quickly in the last few weeks that its been impossible to keep up. As Tim Moreton pointed out, this issue sticks to everything it touches. I took a break from the normal interview format to share some of the happenings and to come up with a bit of a position.

The five uneasy pieces in this episode are me reading the blog posts in that order.

Uneasy piece 1: The eyes and the ears

Uneasy piece 2: Over our dead species.

Uneasy Piece 3: The requirements of chaos

Uneasy piece 4: Its time that you love.

Uneasy Piece 5: The reading list.

Teall Crossen worked on climate justice issues in New York for the Pacific. She returned home to be part of changing the government with the hope NZ could step up show some real leadership on climate change.

She came by for a chat not long after the new government was formed. Teall described New Zealand’s democracy as something you can reach out and touch. Certainly its starting to seem that way to me now.

Teall Crossen worked on climate justice issues in New York for the Pacific. She returned home to be part of changing the government with the hope NZ could step up show some real leadership on climate change.

She came by for a chat not long after the new government was formed. Teall described New Zealand’s democracy as something you can reach out and touch. Certainly its starting to seem that way to me now.

Sigurd Magnusson is a software developer turned EV advocate in Wellington, New Zealand. He and I talked about our hopes for the growth of Electric Vehicles here where we live.

While EVs have been seen as too expensive and not practical enough for some time now we both believe they have recently hit a point where they can pay for themselves.

We’re both shameless fans of the Nissan Leaf, and we do go on about it a bit. We’ve been talking with someone from https://www.drivelife.co.nz/ about doing EV reviews and look forward to seeing more about them in the future.

Next episode we’ll likely have a government again and I’ll be talking to Teall Crossen of the Green Party about the three years ahead.

Thanks to Sigurd for coming by and putting up with the recording mistakes and over-cooked Oato-bahn cookies. The doom and gloom has been getting a bit much lately and having his relentless positivity in the room was a treat for me.

If you’re thinking about getting an EV yourself jump into the EV facebook group for your area and make yourself known. They’re a mighty helpful bunch.

https://charge.net.nz/

https://www.plugshare.com/

http://www.leadingthecharge.org.nz/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WellyEV/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZEVOwners/

http://flipthefleet.org

Sigurd Magnusson is a software developer turned EV advocate in Wellington, New Zealand. He and I talked about our hopes for the growth of Electric Vehicles here where we live.

While EVs have been seen as too expensive and not practical enough for some time now we both believe they have recently hit a point where they can pay for themselves.

We’re both shameless fans of the Nissan Leaf, and we do go on about it a bit. We’ve been talking with someone from https://www.drivelife.co.nz/ about doing EV reviews and look forward to seeing more about them in the future.

Next episode we’ll likely have a government again and I’ll be talking to Teall Crossen of the Green Party about the three years ahead.

Thanks to Sigurd for coming by and putting up with the recording mistakes and over-cooked Oato-bahn cookies. The doom and gloom has been getting a bit much lately and having his relentless positivity in the room was a treat for me.

If you’re thinking about getting an EV yourself jump into the EV facebook group for your area and make yourself known. They’re a mighty helpful bunch.

https://charge.net.nz/

https://www.plugshare.com/

http://www.leadingthecharge.org.nz/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WellyEV/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZEVOwners/

http://flipthefleet.org

Its been relentless. I took some highs and lows from the campaign and made this scrapbook. Here, in no particular order, and with little annotation, are a collections of pictures taken and words spoken.  Good luck to us all.

Goodness we talk about climate change a lot. And yet we rarely spend time with a specialist. That’s a bit silly. So this week I invited Victoria University’s James Renwick over for a chat. It really was that easy.

I made blue cheese and chilli salt scones and we talked about impending nightmare that is the destabilising of the planet’s climate.

James and I talked for two and a half hours. We wound up talking about quite a few books, some non fiction and some sci fi. Turns out we’re both nerds. I cut it back to make the episode shorter but can re-release the full talk later if anyone’s interested.

Here are the books we talked about. Sorry if they don’t all come up in the edited conversation – I was a bit ruthless. Like I said, if you want the longer discussion I can make it happen.

Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein – No is not enough.

Hyperobjects – Tim Moreton

The Uninhabitable Earth – (New Yorker)

The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu

Elizabeth Kolbert – The Sixth Extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi

The Water Knife – Paolo Bacigalupi

The Mote in God’s Eye Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100365.The_Mote_in_God_s_Eye

Ronald Wright – A short history of progress – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331227.A_Short_History_of_Progress

Bruce Chatwin – Songlines

Because its 2017 and the Nats are still making jokes about fart tax I wrote and angry letter to Bill

It’s still a joke to you.

And because Leighton Smith decided to make the problem go away with talkshow host magic I gave in an finally created the Imagine My Relief List. There’s a tractor on it.

The Imagine My Relief List…

Goodness we talk about climate change a lot. And yet we rarely spend time with a specialist. That’s a bit silly. So this week I invited Victoria University’s James Renwick over for a chat. It really was that easy.

I made blue cheese and chilli salt scones and we talked about impending nightmare that is the destabilising of the planet’s climate.

James and I talked for two and a half hours. We wound up talking about quite a few books, some non fiction and some sci fi. Turns out we’re both nerds. I cut it back to make the episode shorter but can re-release the full talk later if anyone’s interested.

Here are the books we talked about. Sorry if they don’t all come up in the edited conversation – I was a bit ruthless. Like I said, if you want the longer discussion I can make it happen.

Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein – No is not enough.

Hyperobjects – Tim Moreton

The Uninhabitable Earth – (New Yorker)

The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu

Elizabeth Kolbert – The Sixth Extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi

The Water Knife – Paolo Bacigalupi

The Mote in God’s Eye Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100365.The_Mote_in_God_s_Eye

Ronald Wright – A short history of progress – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331227.A_Short_History_of_Progress

Bruce Chatwin – Songlines

Because its 2017 and the Nats are still making jokes about fart tax I wrote and angry letter to Bill

It’s still a joke to you.

And because Leighton Smith decided to make the problem go away with talkshow host magic I gave in an finally created the Imagine My Relief List. There’s a tractor on it.

The Imagine My Relief List…

Finally – the talk with Sarah Thomson in Auckland. We talk about floods and denial and curious fact the NZ does not have a constitution. I’ll try and catch up with Sarah briefly in the next episode. Remember this conversation happened early in August. With from statements about denial during floods to the need for a constitution, it all seems eerily prescient.

Thanks again to Sarah. Every day I discover someone else working hard to turn this mess around. I’m excited about getting to talk with them.

 

 

Finally – the talk with Sarah Thomson in Auckland. We talk about floods and denial and curious fact the NZ does not have a constitution. I’ll try and catch up with Sarah briefly in the next episode. Remember this conversation happened early in August. With from statements about denial during floods to the need for a constitution, it all seems eerily prescient.

Thanks again to Sarah. Every day I discover someone else working hard to turn this mess around. I’m excited about getting to talk with them.