Anthony Coote, local Geo-scientist reports: Is our water quality testing of Lake Hawea proactive enough, and are any measured tolerances of deemed good quality appropriate, given climate change. If you thought that Lake Hawea hasn’t looked right for about a month now, you are not alone and probably not mistaken: pale blue green in colour… Continue reading Is our water quality testing of Lake Hawea proactive enough?
Category: Sustainability
The great New Zealand lupin debate and why it matters
First we need to talk about the lupin’s favoured environment being mainily the braided rivers which drain the Southern Alps – rivers that find it impossible to run in a straight line, and be anything other than dynamic. When in flood braided rivers carry sediment from the ever rising mountains [geologically speaking] and landslides that… Continue reading The great New Zealand lupin debate and why it matters
Videos of last year’s Sustainable Summits Conference, at Mt Cook
Last winter I attended the inaugural, for NZ, Sustainable Summits Conference, at Mt Cook Aoraki Village and did several posts on same. It was one of the most interesting multi-day events I’ve ever attended. For it’s duration my friend Carla Braun-Elwert filmmaker editor artist, made videos, and she has now published them as below. Click… Continue reading Videos of last year’s Sustainable Summits Conference, at Mt Cook
How best to look after our precious New Zealand waterways – a personal view by Laurel Teirney of Wanaka
A personal view by by Laurel Teirney, a former manager at Ministry of Fisheries The success of the community based/scientist/agency approach we adopted for looking after the whole of the Fiordland, and then the Kaikoura Marine Areas makes me feel we’ve struck on a “magic” formula that just might apply to our lakes and rivers… Continue reading How best to look after our precious New Zealand waterways – a personal view by Laurel Teirney of Wanaka
Race to protect the Pupū Springs near Nelson
More properly named the Te Waikoropupū Springs, they’re the largest freshwater springs in New Zealand, and the largest cold water springs in the Southern Hemisphere and contain some of the clearest water ever measured this side of Antarctica’s near-frozen Weddell Sea, with a visibility of 63 metres. Antarctica aside the water clarity is in fact… Continue reading Race to protect the Pupū Springs near Nelson