Grant Jacobs • May 23, 2014 •
(A travelogue of deafness, genetics and village sign languages for NZ Sign Language Week 2014[1]) [caption id="attachment_12565" align="alignright" width="300"] Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.[/caption] Island paradises are wonderful, but after a few days I find usually myself restless. Exploring a place suits me more than lying on a beach. Read More
Cindy Baxter • Mar 15, 2012 •
4 a.m. Bali, December 2007, the first Tuesday of the two-week UN climate talks. My phone rings, waking me up. Blearily, and a little crossly, I answer it. I was in Bali to run Greenpeace International’s media for the meeting. The caller was someone called “John” who said he was an intern for a US […] … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Jan 24, 2012 •
The Heartland Institute, the US organisation that plays a key role in organised climate denial, has directly funded New Zealand’s most prominent sceptics, a search of US Internal Revenue Service documents has revealed. In 2007, Heartland granted US$25,000 (NZ$32,000) to the NZ Climate “Science” Coalition, sending the money to NZ CSC member Owen McShane. They [...] … Read More