This week Lilly speaks with Brigitte Hicks from the Sustainable Business Network about the million meters project. The project aims to plant a million meters of trees along stream banks to restore habitat and improve water quality in New Zealand.
The Green Party Co-Leader James Shaw released a new policy this morning that would increase the number of refugees New Zealand accepts each year. Also underneath this policy, a new humanitarian visa for climate change refugees would be created. Lilly caught up with James Shaw to discuss how the climate refugee visa would work.
This week on the Green Desk Lilly brings us a special plastic discussion panel w/ Colinda Rowe (Grey Lynn Transition Town/Head of Waste Away) Kristy Lorson (Zero Waste NZ).
This week reporter Mack Smith chats to the Green Desk's regular host Lilly Peacocke who's been visitng Greece on a reseach expedition. Lilly tells us about her dolphin experiences on the Greek islands and how the aquatic mammals are faring on the busy mediterranean sea.
On the lead up to the election, we are focusing on different issues each week and this week we are focusing on healthcare. Joel spoke to Green Party leader James Shaw about the Green Party's view on our health and mental health systems. They also chatted about drug use and whether it's a health issue, and the rebranding of the Green's campaign image.
This week we meet the Green party's newest MP Golriz Gharaman. Golriz is a former human rights lawyer and will become New Zealand's first refugee MP after she fled Iran in 1990 with her family.
On the Green desk, Conor Mercer speaks to Nick Beveridge, from Forest and Bird, about the council vote taking place today on how to handle the spread of Kauri Dieback disease in the Waitakere Ranges.
Green Desk connoisseur Conor Mercer caught up with freshwater advocate for Forest and Bird Annabeth Cohen. They discussed the threat water drainage pumps are creating for our native eel population, as well as some interesting facts about how the slippery creatures breed.
Reuben McLaren has a chat to the new Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson about what her leadership will mean for the party, how the Greens will hold the government to account and what is to be made from Immigration New Zealand’s alleged racial profiling.
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